Wednesday
Dec162009
Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison)
The title was inspired by Orbison's wife Claudette interrupting a conversation to announce she was going out; when Orbison asked if she was okay for cash, his co-writer Bill Dees interjected, "A pretty woman never needs any money."
It was #1 on the charts for over three weeks in 1964, but it seemed it was on the radio for months. Then it happened...The Beatles hit America with the British sound, and the classic rock and roll of the fifties and early sixties was immediately gone, for at least a generation.
It seemed to me that Pretty Woman was the last song of a then fading genre.
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Pretty Woman, Roy Orbison
Pretty Woman, Roy Orbison
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