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Chris Isaak: Playing Orbison Is a 'Dream'
« on: Feb 22^nd, 2004, 3:37pm »

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I spotted this article and immediately went back in my mind to the days Roy Orbinson was still amongst us. He was was one of my favourite performers and I still miss him.

Years ago there was a special based on his life. There was one clip in particular that knocked my socks of. He was fooling around during a rehearsal (or wherever) and began singing full out opera. Everyone became so quiet in the studio because his voice was so commanding. Though I'm sure the people around him had heard this other side of Orbinson, it took them aback as it did me.

Born in Vernon, Texas, on April 23, 1936, death claimed the legendary rock-and-roll star on December 6,1988 (two days after his last concert), at the age of 51. He died in Hendersonville, Tennessee, after suffering a massive heart attack.

Saturday, February 21, 2004

LOS ANGELES The director yells "Playback!" and the driving thump-thump rhythm of "Oh, Pretty Woman" rocks the soundstage.

A man begins lip-syncing to the track, which he recorded earlier. He sounds very much like Roy Orbison (search). He looks very much like Roy Orbison.

But wait! What do we see? It's Chris Isaak.

On the "American Dreams" set, Isaak is recreating one of the historic moments of "American Bandstand," a regular feature of this NBC series chronicling the shifting cultural, social and political mores of the Pryor family of Philadelphia in the 1960s.

Teenage daughter Meg Pryor (Brittany Snow) and her pal Roxanne Bojarksi (Vanessa Lengies), both of whom are regular "Bandstand" dancers, are in the audience as "Orbison" sings his 1964 hit, now a classic.

"It's fun hitting the high notes," says actor-musician Isaak, who had recorded the song the previous day, with his brother, Nick, handling the famous Orbison growl.

Chris Isaak, whose own music can sound remarkably like Orbison's, performs on a set made to look like the Philadelphia studio where Dick Clark originally produced "American Bandstand."

"That's his real hair. Not a wig. How cool is that! Amazing!" exclaims Jonathan Prince, co-executive producer with Clark of "American Dreams," which airs 8 p.m. EST Sunday.

Chris Isaak as Roy Orbison

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Roy in his teens..........................Last concert ~ 12.04.88

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,112093,00.html

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