Memphis (Roy Orbison album)
1972 studio album by Roy Orbison From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1972 studio album by Roy Orbison From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Memphis is the seventeenth album recorded by Roy Orbison, and his tenth for MGM Records. The album was released in November 1972.
| Memphis | ||||
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Cover art by Drew Struzan | ||||
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| Released | November 1972 | |||
| Recorded | March 15 – April 14, 1972 | |||
| Genre | Rockabilly[1] | |||
| Length | 37:27 | |||
| Label | MGM (SE 4867) | |||
| Producer | Roy Orbison, Joe Melson | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
The album was released on compact disc for the first time by Diablo Records on October 25, 2004 as tracks 12 through 22 on a pairing of three albums on one CD with tracks 1 - 11, through 23 - 33 consisting of the other album being Orbison's Other Album from May 1972, Roy Orbison Sings, and His MGM Final Album from September 1973, Milestones.[4] The Roy's Boys was included in a box set entitled The MGM Years 1965-1973 - Roy Orbison, which contains 12 of his MGM studio albums, 1 compilation, and was released on Deember 4, 2015.[5]
The album took three weeks to make in March and April 1972. The album had one single, "Memphis, Tennessee", which became a minor hit in the US, charting at #84. Also included was a new, re-recorded version of Don Gibson's "I Can't Stop Loving You", which previously appeared on his 1960 album "Lonely and Blue". This was Orbison's final album that was released for London Records as Decca let Orbison out of their contract on June 30, 1972.
Bruce Eder of AllMusic said that the album "moves on to more familiar sentimental country-pop territory of the kind that Glen Campbell had been charting with and filling his albums with for a few years -- and after that comes a hot, beat-driven, chorus-laden, big-sounding number. nderstated interpretation of Don Gibson's "I Can't Stop Loving You" that shows how less can be more with a voice like Orbison's, and then there's the pop/rock country "Run the Engines Up High," which incorporates some heavy, rock-style fuzz guitar, and a version of "I Fought the Law," complete with phased drums."[2]
Arranged by Joe Tanner Produced by Joe Melson & Roy Orbison except "Danny Boy" produced by Don Gant
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