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A truly unique voice no one else can sing this song better than Roy Orbison ♥️🎄 I have always loved this song 🎄♥️🥲 I love Christmas 🎄 I love you Bill ♥️🎄 🎄🇺🇸♥️♥️🇦🇺🎁🪄💌
Darkest blues in the most marketable of ways. This stuff was dope before dope was dope. What fine art. All thumbs available to the UP. holy crap, that was 3 12 in 4 bars. whoa, it really was blues! Wow, whatta genius.
I'm 19 and I'm so gutted I wasn't alive when he was to see him live. His music/ voice is so beautiful!! And it's such a shame that part of his life was so tragic :(
I'll be turning 19 next month, and I love everything about Roy. I really wish I could have seen him perform live and I really wish I could have met him. He was such a sweet man, from what I've read.
@@sarahkinsey5434I saw the big "O" at the London Paladium in the 70s, and yes it was brilliant and I am listening to my favourite of his, Pretty Paper.
Xmas 1963, on the eastern plains of Montana trying to hold up a surveyor's measurement rod against the body-freezing winds coming down from the mountains. Away from home. This song was popular on the radio. Whenever I heard it, it really hit me hard. And I had the latest portable radio, with SIX transistors, for listening to it. (LOL)
This stripped back version of "Pretty Paper" is more forlorn than the original, it makes the sentiments utterly heartbreaking. No wonder Elvis and the Beatles rated the Big "O" so highly, he was a class act. Like Tim Buckley, no-one has covered his songs because nobody can sing like him. He remains a one-off talent.
@@graemetimoney7002 It doesn't get any better than this. Roy and Willie had similar singing styles so effortless and relaxed and perfectly lovely. What a treasure..
living in vancouver, bc, canada, i can relate to this song. poverty is pretty huge here, especially downtown on granville street, for example. there was a struggling girl with a cat. i talked with her for a couple of minutes. her family didn't wany anything to do with her anymore with the choices she made. she stayed at some shelter in the slums, so i gave her some change to get something to eat and went to the 7-11 and got her cat a pounch of wet food then continued on with my merry day
So great. Mouth hardly even opens, yet out comes that wonderful voice, with his rare gift for expressing rich and complex emotions. This is one of my favourite Christmas songs, grounded by that deep sadness at its heart.
I don't think I've ever heard a singer have the range that he has. Elvis once said that Roy Orbison was one of the best singers he had ever heard. Nuff said.
Oh my! So hard to get a live version of my favourite Orbison song. Every time I hear Roy it pains me to recall that I had a chance to record a live performance of him at Lulu's in Kitchener, Ont. in 1988 I think, and I chickened out for fear of being asked to leave. Man, he was something else.
This song was written by Willie Nelson in 1963. This is a true story of a street vendor, Frankie Brierton (1899-1973) who at an early age, was stricken by spinal meningitis. For most of his life he crawled on his hands and knees selling pencils and paper outside of the Leonard's department store in Fort Worth, Texas. Frankie was married seven times and his children only recently learned that the song was written about their father.
Roy Orbison ~ 1963~ "Pretty Paper" Lyrics (The pretty paper, pretty ribbons of blue) Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of blue Wrap your presents to your darling from you Pretty pencils to write "I love you" Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of blue Crowded street, busy feet hustle by him Downtown shoppers, Christmas is nigh There he sits all alone on the sidewalk Hoping that you won't pass him by Should you stop, better not, much too busy You're in a hurry, my how time does fly In the distance the ringing of laughter And in the midst of the laughter he cries Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of blue Wrap your presents to your darling from you Pretty pencils to write "I love you" Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of blue
I urge all Roy Orbison fans to find Black & White, a PBS special. Backup singers K. D. Lange & Bonnie Raitte, a 20 something Bruce Springsteen fannimg out he can't believe he's in the presence of Mr. Orbison. Tom Waits playing guitar & Elvis Presley's TCB band is the house band. It will blow you away. Agreed on this version so good.
