Comments on: ROY ORBISON – “Oh, Pretty Woman”

By: thefatgit

thefatgit — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:42:59 +0000

“She’s walking back to me…” RIP Barbara Orbison.

By: Dispela Pusi

Dispela Pusi — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:39:11 +0000

One of those tracks where I find it’s no longer possible to assess its merits with any degree of objectivity, simply because it’s been played to death. If you went only by the playlists of the commercial radio stations where I live, you’d imagine that Roy Orbison had never recorded anything else.

I’d probably have assigned it a 7 back in the day, but for me, now, even a 2 would be pushing it.

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:38:25 +0000

Claudette had another number one written about her by Roy. She’s the same Claudette that Don and Phil Everly were threatening to “squeeze to death” on the other side of All I Have To Do Is Dream.

By: Cumbrian

Cumbrian — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:02:29 +0000

We had a bit of a conversation about this on the “It’s Over” thread a couple of weeks back.

She died in a car crash a year after they got back together. Then 2 of the Big O’s kids died in a house fire. Then people stopped buying his records in such large numbers. And then, after starting a comeback that looked like it might have some real legs under it – he died.

Bugger.

By: Mark G

Mark G — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:54:20 +0000

And then, for the Pretty Woman of the title was Roy’s wife Claudette, she cheated on him

Yeah, but then she ‘walked on back’ and they remarried the next year.

By: lonepilgrim

lonepilgrim — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:05:40 +0000

The song get’s a less optimistic reading in the US version of Popular here:

http://nohardchords.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/118-roy-orbison-oh-pretty-woman/

It’s that tension between the music and lyric which gives the song it’s edge – despite being roped in to soundtrack the Julia Roberts/Richard Gere movie – it never settles into one mood or another

By: Tooncgull

Tooncgull — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:24:59 +0000

One of THOSE classic opening bars! Impossible to ignore, a finger-snapping swagger of a song, everything about it is excitement, raw attraction, adolescent lazy voyeurism, and the dream ending, all topped with an unforgettable bass line.

Ten for me.

By: SteveIson

SteveIson — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:23:17 +0000

Such a clever bit of writing too…The middle 8 has such great unorthodox chord changes