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Title: Classic Orbison...NOT!
Review: All I can say is...there is a REASON Roy's MGM material never stays in print for any length of time. It makes his Sun output look stellar! This is a classic case of an amazing artist who made it big with a small label and then got lured away by a big label with more cash and the promise of a movie. And in the process lost his artistic bearings and soul. Very few of these songs even scraped into the Top 40 and for good reason: They are lame and a shocking mockery of what he had done at Monument. Roy lost his ability to write or pick songs, his movie was a stinker, personal tragedy after personal tragedy struck and it was a fast nose-dive from the top of the pop world to doing oldies package tours. All these songs just seem to have a "I am phoning this in and doing it for the money" feel to them. This is far from classic material and I can only recommend this for hardcore Orbison fans or the curious.
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