A Black & White Night Live tracks, album, songs, music, reviews and overview

A Black & White Night Live is a Roy Orbison music album made posthumously by Virgin Records from the HBO television broadcast, "Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night". The album was released in 1989 and included the song "Blue Bayou" that because of time constraints had been deleted from the televised broadcast.

The album contains four songs named by Rolling Stone Magazine in 2004 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."

On piano is Glen D. Hardin, who had played piano for Buddy Holly as well as for years for Elvis Presley. Lead guitarist, James Burton is also from Presley's group. Male background vocals with some on guitar, are: Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Steven Soles. Singing the female background vocals are k.d. lang, Jennifer Warnes, and Bonnie Raitt.

Tracks

"Only The Lonely" - (Roy Orbison & Joe Melson)
"In Dreams" - (Roy Orbison)
"Dream Baby" - (Cindy Walker)
"Leah" - (Roy Orbison)
"Move on Down the Line" - (Roy Orbison & Billy Pat Ellis)
"Crying" - (Roy Orbison & Joe Melson)
"Mean Woman Blues" - (Claude Demetrius)
"Running Scared" - (Roy Orbison & Joe Melson)
"Blue Bayou" (not included in broadcast) - (Roy Orbison & Joe Melson)
"Candy Man - (Beverly Ross & Fred Neil)
"Uptown" - (Roy Orbison & Joe Melson)
"Ooby Dooby" - (Wade Moore & Dick Penner)
"The Comedians" - (Elvis Costello)
"Dream You" - (T-Bone Burnett & Dan Malloy)
"It's Over" - (Roy Orbison & Bill Dees)
"Oh, Pretty Woman" - (Roy Orbison & Bill Dees)
"Orbison's voice was unearthly. He had the ability, like all great rock and rollers, to sound like he'd dropped in from another planet and yet get the stuff that was right to the heart of what you were livin' in today, and that was how he opened up your vision. I carry his records with me when I go on tour today, and I'll always remember what he means to me and what he meant to me when I was young and afraid to love. In 1975, when I went into the studio to record 'Born To Run', I wanted to make a record with words like Bob Dylan, that sounded like Phil Spector's production, but most of all I wanted to sing like Roy Orbison. Now, everybody knows that nobody sings like Roy Orbison." â€“ Bruce Springsteen