Live at Austin City Limits [Original recording remastered, Live]

Roy Orbison | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 11, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1982
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Live
• Label: Orbison Records
• ASIN: B00005A8O3
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #451,705 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Only the Lonely

2. Leah

3. Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)

4. In Dreams

5. Mean Woman Blues

6. Blue Angel

7. Lana

8. Blue Bayou

9. Candy Man

10. Crying

11. Crying (Reprise)

12. Ooby Dooby

13. Hound Dog Man

14. Working for the Man

15. That Lovin' You Feelin' Again

16. Down the Line, (Go Go Go)

17. It's Over

18. Oh, Pretty Woman

19. Running Scared

20. Running Scared (Reprise)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quality Roy!!!!, June 12, 2003

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Robert L. Henry Jr. (Paden City, WV United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at Austin City Limits (Audio CD)

Not many performers, sound good live, let alone redoing their own songs and make them sound good but Roy pulls it off quite well. The sound quality on this recording is first rate and the live versions of these classics are the next best thing to the orginal studio versions. You can tell Roy really enjoyed himself in this Austin City Limits concert and it shows and the warm crowd makes Roy feel at home as 2 songs are "encores. Most live recordings the crowd drowns out the performer when he sings but not this one. This might be the best live recording I have ever heard. Quality recording for a Quality Artist!!!!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Roy Live at Austin City Limits, September 15, 2004

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DVR "DVR" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at Austin City Limits (Audio CD)

One of the best live performances available of Roy, next to Black and White Night live. I live in Australia and paid less than $10 (inc. international postage)for this CD, which turned up in a few days from USA and brand new in wrapper with a bonus CD. The sound quality is excellent, if you are a fan of the big O you won't be disapointed with Live at Austin City Limits!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Luminous Orbit of Roy, February 26, 2006

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R. J MOSS (Alice Springs, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at Austin City Limits (Audio CD)

How preposterous, billing the 'O' as support for the Rolling Stones. There he was at The Palaise, Melbourne ca 1964, an impressively immobile, lone figure seemingly summoning the celestial gods before Jagger and co. raised the planks from the underworld. His absolute stasis served to drill attention to the essence of his act. No amount of rhythmic grind and thrust could dissipate Roy's presence. His notes still riffed around the rafters. Certainly he made his debut, which he plays for us in this concert, as an aspirant rocker. 'Pretty Woman' not withstanding, Orbison rocking out? It never really fits. Not, at least along side the signature operatic pop ballads, where, to put it coyly, he found his voice and metre. Like many artists with auspicious early 60s careers, Orbisons' seemed to stand as still through the 70s as his demeanour at the microphone. This Austin City concert marked his re-emmergence after a lengthy reclusion. It is exactly what fans desired - a total recapitualtion of stellar moments, superbly arranged and timed, the voice in full throttle. 'Leah' and,'Working for the Man' are often missed on collected hits. I've loved these as much as the paranoid driven majesty of,'It's Over', 'Cryin', 'and 'Running Scared', the last two which are graced with reprise treatment. While,'In Dreams' acknowledges the source of his imagery he never evoked it as poignantly as on,'Leah' where we plunge the depths with the helpless diver for pearls. (Flo and Eddie/Turtles lightly invoked the song with, 'Nikki Nikki Hoy' on their self-titled disc). Needless to say, Roy presented us with the pearls despite the perils of his searching. This concert must have been a sublime occasion. There was probably no inkling of the second-wind cameo with The Wilberrys, of the incandescent,'Black and White Night' or the curtain call,'Mystery Girl' in the remainder of the decade. So this may be considered as a re-affirmation of a unique gift and confirmation for the artist that high-octane fuel was on tap. May he orbit amongst the most luminous constellations long after this record orbits in my player.