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...that rockabilly might eventually go the way of the turkey trot can take heart. Last week a 1985 version of the legendary "Million Dollar Quartet," which once included Elvis Presley, was back in Memphis. The veteran country rockers-- Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Presley Replacement Roy Orbison--were on hand to record a new album and a television special in the same studio where they got their start some 30 years ago. "We're not out to recapture that old sound," said Cash. "We're here to recapture that spirit we had. I felt that spirit when...
Wheeler wisely cast actors strong on the comic aspect. John Bottoms moves smoothly from Roy Orbison raptures to sputtering outrage to weary depression; he can't quite bring off the tender pathos written into the script, but few could do any better. Stehlin turns a stock soap opera part (the idealistic male ingenue) into a combination of Matthew Broderick and Woody Allen acting out a Roy Rogers fantasy; he suffers worst from the capricious plotting, and can't expand his stage presence into a full three dimensions...
...more oldies also receive excellent treatment on the album--a country ballad from Roy Orbison (one of Elvis's teenage idols) called "Blue Bayou," and the old Jagger-Richard standby, Tumbling Dice. The Stones version is, of course, the best, but it its interesting to hear it sung by a woman. In fact, this cut may be the best on the album. The remaining seven songs on the album (which total up to a mere 32 minutes of music - those record companies really bleed you dry) further demonstrate Ronstadt's recently-found maturity. They range from mediocre, like "Maybe...
Springsteen's songs are full of echoes-of Sam Cooke and Elvis Presley, of Chuck Berry, Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly. You can also hear Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and the Band weaving among Springsteen's elaborate fantasias. The music is a synthesis, some Latin and soul, and some good jazz riffs too. The tunes are full of precipitate breaks and shifting harmonies, the lyrics often abstract, bizarre, wholly personal...
...Orbison singing for the lonely