Roy Orbison - "Oh, Pretty Woman"

[Dammn Baby]

Merrrrrcy

#1 from 1964. A timeless classic. Roy won a pop vocal performance Grammy posthumously in 1991 for his performance of this on his HBO special.

[LBTrocks]

Another classic of his and definitely quite the jam! I do love this. He has many other songs that I like much better but this one is feel-good and catchy, yet edgy. This was one of my mom's favorites :)

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Love it. A huge classic, indeed.

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#59 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

Mercy! This song, immortalized in the 1990 film of the same name, was Roy Orbison’s second No. 1 hit on the Hot 100. The record punches harder than you may remember: The taut, muscular instrumental track is as rock as it is pop. (We shouldn’t have been so surprised when Van Halen had a No. 12 Hot 100 hit with the song in 1982.) The best moment: Orby’s sexy growl following the line “are you lonely just like me?” After much, much coaxing and cajoling, the legendary singer is about to admit defeat, when, suddenly, the object of his desire has a change of heart: “But wait /What do I see?/ Is she walkin’ back to me?/ Yeah, she’s walkin’ back to me.” That happy ending leads to the song’s other great hook: the full stop, rather than fade, at the close. – PAUL GREIN