Black & White Night

Roy Orbison | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 3, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Orbison Records
• ASIN: B000005C1B
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #361,735 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Only The Lonely

2. In Dreams

3. Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)

4. Leah

5. Move On Down The Line

6. Crying

7. Mean Woman Blues

8. Running Scared

9. Blue Bayou

10. Candy Man

11. Uptown

12. Ooby Dooby

13. The Comedians

14. (All I Can Do Is) Dream You

15. It's Over - Roy Orbison R

16. Oh, Pretty Woman

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A surprise success, January 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Black & White Night (Audio CD)

It could so easily have been a disaster. A band full of egos. A Roy Orbison in fragile health, carrying too much weight and without a major success for more than twenty years in the US (although he'd retained his following in the UK and Australasia). The opening track, "Only the Lonely" seems to bear out the predictions. The audience is quiet. Orbison seems to be using the microphone to aid rather than to transmit. And then he hits that high note. The audience applauds. And somehow, the album just gets better and better. Backed by Elvis's Las Vegas band, he launches into his strongest song "In Dreams" and displays a quality that the recording in the 1960's never had, legendary though it was.

This Cd illustrates the range of the Orbison repertoire. Listen to him rock in "Candy Man" and "Move on Down the Line", and your feet'll be tapping. Listen to the high notes - perfectly pitched - in "Crying", "It's Over" and "The Comedians", and it's easy to forgive him the weakness of his enunciation.

The whole thing is one very special event. It has a quality that most live recordings can only dream of. This album should be up there with "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "Rumours" for every rock fan's 'must-have' list.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now everyone knows, June 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Black & White Night (Audio CD)

Now it's here for everyone to hear(and see). After purchasing a Laser Disc player years ago, I stumbled onto the LD of this great concert buried on the "clearance" shelf of a video store(idiots). At the time I was not a big Roy fan...just bought the Disc because it was cheap and I was curious.

The performances are spectacular and the audio mix is one of the best I've heard for a live performance.

Even though I can play it at will, I get hooked evertime one of the local PBS stations airs it as a fund raiser. Also, it's the only audio tape I carry in my car. Don't just buy the CD, buy the video tape..a real bargin. Hopefully a DVD is forthcoming??

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of the Best, November 16, 2004

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This review is from: Black & White Night (Audio CD)

I remember it well; I watched it in awe on cable and taped it. I still have the tape. I have the cassette version of this CD. When PBS trots it out during a fund raiser, I watch it again. It is very special to me. Nobody has to tell you about the vocal powers of Roy Orbison. The show was no doubt shot in black and white to conceal Roy's less-than-striking physical qualities. People magazine had a picture of him with a reference to his being an "antique rocker". But when the lights came up, Roy showed us all that he still had it. As other reviewers have noted, accomplished musicians with their own fan bases were on hand in backup roles to provide excellent support without displaying any ego of their own. They were there to support their hero. This is one of the best filmed concerts I have ever seen and highly recommend you get the DVD as well. In the filmed version, as the cameras pull back after the concert, Kris Kristofferson can be seen in the audience, playing to the camera and grinning his approval. This is one item you are bound to treasure. This is music history made more significant by Roy's sudden death just months later.