Roy Orbison and How to Make a Man Cry

Sound Guy 101 | Apr 09, 2008 | 0

Roy Orbison

If Roy Orbison's life were to be condensed into a song, it would find itself in close company with the most extreme lyrical songs out there - i.e. "Died in a Car Crash" or "Breathing Underwater." His tragic life (lost four loved ones) led to his writing and he became one of the first real men to sing about crying about a girl. Though it seems somewhat common in a post-Dashboard Confessional day and age, this was a radical step in the early 60's.

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This past weekend, a school danced to several old and, at present, fairly obscure songs (old Carol King songs that were recorded long before most of these dancers were born). But the best song that I heard this weekend was a Spanish cover of the Roy Orbison song "Crying" by Rebekah del Rio. It was from David Lynch film "Mulholland Drive" and has also been used in a melodramatic episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The extremes that it goes to and the sparseness of its parts  asks a lot of any choreographer or dancer wishing to use the song. I must say that it was an incredible performance and completely accentuated by sharp and fierce dancing.

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