I saw Roy on 4 occasions on his many trips to Australia I'm now 78 and still playing his music I was lying in bed one morning and my wife came in that he had just died I was devastated I still have a few albums of Roy but my favorite is a box set of 6 vynl records of his songs from the sixties RIP Roy
Roy could sing from a phone book and bring you to tears with how melodramatic it becomes with his voice. My favorite of his will always be "In Dreams" but he has so many great songs!
You are hearing the magnificent voice and the lyrics written by Roy Orbison. The words "all the rainbows in the sky start to weep and say goodbye" are almost magical to hear. I don't know how else to express the feelings that phrase stirs in us. Also Roy Orbison is considered to have the greatest voice in popular or R&R music.
It didn't matter what key, what register, high or low , the quiver of his singing would take you exactly where and what he was feeling in any song he sang. To be one of the best singers to express pain, you have to have experienced pain. Roy knew exactly what pain was. RIP Roy.
Spring of '65---------I was 18 y/o-----------and I almost ran to the record store, after hearing this ! I still have my 45. What a Classic ! The 60's live on, 4-ever. ---------------MJL, 77 y/o
The song was written by Roy and Bill Dees. The words are great, the music in the back ground is perfect, and there is even a strum of the guitar that feels like a pain heartbreak, and his voice is so smooth. I used to listen to his music and be so touched, and then I saw him, and it is like a fantasy of what someone looks like was in my head, and I was shocked, and then it all fit together too, just amazing total package! Thanks Harri!
This song is one of Roy's most beautiful songs. It was classified as a rock ballad. The orchestra with full strings absolutely pulls at your heart to make you feel his pain. Can anyone sound more heart broken than Roy? Roy's voice is capable of projecting pain better than anyone else. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Craig. A absolute Masterpiece. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Depending on your tastes, between 12 and 18 Roy Orbison songs are bucket-list listens. But you just heard one of my top three for pushing popular music to unprecedented heights. My other two: "Running Scared" and "In Dreams". Works of absolute genius! Can't wait for you to hear them.
You are so right. Roy Orbison was the master of conveying emotional turmoil and heartbreak combined with a beautiful falsetto voice. As you touched on, Roy's life was very tragic. Maybe it was his own personal heartbreak than gave him this desolate Texan drawl combined with heartache . Maybe. There will never be another singer like Roy Kelton Orbison. Thanks for a great reaction
OAP Here, and British.. am 76 years old, The Big O has been A Top Singer for years gone by and Also Today... all you young ones can DO is knock yesterday Years.. I have lots of your people on Records. going Back more than 60 and up dates on CDS... am Big Big FAN of Roy Orbison...life long 😂❤
5:46 "That 'it's over' cry is one of the most painful, distressing, spine-tingling things you could ever hear in your life." Amen, brother. Harri, this is one of your very best reactions -- you are exquisitely sensitive to the emotional distress in this song. Orbison would be proud to have you as a listener.
You won't be seeing rainbows anymore. That line always just killed me. This Arrangement is absolutely fantastic as well. The backing vocals are tremendous. Everything about this song is just so amazing.
The facts are that Roy had an incredibly sad and tragic life. I believe he lost his first wife and child in a house fire. I think he lost another child from his wife in a second marriage. This poor man, knew about Heartache and pain, firsthand. He and Elvis, and Johnny Cash were close friends, and started at the same small upstart record company in Memphis called "Sun Records."
Not exactly. He lost his first wife in a motorcycle accident (they were returning home from a race, and he suddenly realised she wasn't following him any more: he came back and found she had been killed by a lorry which had crashed into her motorcycle). Two years later, when Roy had already met his second wife but they hadn't married yet, his two oldest sons were killed in a fire at his home while he was touring the UK. His parents could only save his youngest son. Afterwards, he had two more sons by his second wife. But all of this happened years later Roy had recorded his most famous songs about hearbreak.
He counted the likes of Elvis and Johnny Cash as close friends, and Bruce Springsteen, Bono. k.d. Lang and more idolized him. Watch the Black and White Night concert, and Bruce is just giddy to be singing and playing alongside his hero.
Roy Orbison has a voice that sounds like he really knows the pain he sings about. All his many hits have this verisimilitude. It’s uncanny how his songs can move us. A perfect playlist on a lonely misty rainy day.
Roy Orbison has always affected me deeply even when I was young. He is and always will be one of the greatest entertainers ever. His music and voice seemed to reach deep inside you and touch you where you live. Amazing!!
Honest to god my dad absolutely was roy orbison voice twin..he won a competition on irish rte tv in the 90s and everytime he did karaoke he made people go mad..😂 he sounded exactly like him 🎉 hes 78 now and still sings ! My mam sounded like a 60s singer too!! His brothers were in the cadettes band in the 60s in Dublin and played trumpet and drums do music is in our family.
I think my favorite Orbison song is “Crying”. I had actually just commented on another “It’s Over” video 10 minutes ago about how beautiful the “All the rainbows…” lyric was, so I agree that “It’s Over” is the Roy Orbison song with the best lyrics, but I like “Crying” best because it is such a vocal tour de force.
After my baby son died, this song has always brought me to tears. I just realised that when my husband left me for my best friend, this song, still, only reminds me of the loss of my baby even though both were heartbreaking. I guess it's because this song came out at the time of my baby leaving.
You talk about how Orbison's AMAZING voice can convey both heartbreak and joy - have you heard his "Running Scared"? Heartbreak and joy...IN THE SAME SONG. Incredible!
And on top of that Roy Orbison died at 52 years old of a heart attack. His heart just couldn't stand no more. A true and tragic legend. By the way, your reactions are good stuff indeed.
I heard this song when it was first released. It has always been one of my top favourite songs. That's why I came to watch this video. Sadly no longer with us, but he had a remarkable voice.
Roy had more than his share of tragedy in his life. His first wife was killed in a motorcycle accident. His two eldest children died in a house fire. Many people would have lost it at that point. But he poured his soul out through his songs. And he never allowed it to make him a bitter person. He remained friendly with people, friends and fans alike, and died well before his time.
I’ve been weirdly obsessed with Roy for years and this summer visited the tiny Texas town he grew up in and desperately wanted to get out of. I consider it a pilgrimage.
My wife just stopped me and ask what I was listening to.... Roy Orbison.... 'even the sound from your headphones sounds brilliant' she said ... because it's Roy Orbison! Talking of brilliant... so are you Harry.
I love your analysis videos, and in particular when it comes to the Big O himself. I've always said his voice is the closest we can get to listening to a ghost singing. It's so spectral, so ethereal, so otherworldly.
I had a cat for many years. The cat got cancer. There wasn't anything that could be done about it, so when she really started suffering I had to drive her to the vet to be put down. Of course I was heartbroken and somewhat distraught. On the way I turned on the radio and it was in the middle of this song, just beginning the chorus "It's over, it's over ...". I literally burst into tears. I always loved this song, still do, even though it brings back that memory every time I hear it. I always loved Roy Orbison, every since Running Scared came out. Got to me meet him about six months before he died when my brother produced a concert by him. What a humble and sincere person he was.
Roy Orbison had one of the most smooth powerful voices. He could sing real high falsetto & also low. Elvis Presley loved Roy's voice. Roy had lots of hits in the 60's such as "Only the Lonely", "Running Scared", "Crying", "In Dreams", "Love Hurts", "Blue Bayou" & "Oh, Pretty Woman". In 1988, he co-founded the Traveling Wilburys (a rock supergroup) with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, & Jeff Lynne. They had some great songs such as "Handle With Care" & "End Of The Line".
When Roy sings it's over it FEELS like it's over 😢
Roy’s life it was a Greek tragedy. He had so much heart ache in his life. The sadness is all there
Roy had one of the greatest emotive voices ever. When Elvis was asked "How does it feel to be the greatest singer?" He replied "Ask Roy"
Roy's voice is the only one to reduce me to tears! Truly a loss to the music world!
So happy to grow up when Orbison was in his prime...incredible music...
I saw Roy on 4 occasions on his many trips to Australia I'm now 78 and still playing his music I was lying in bed one morning and my wife came in that he had just died I was devastated I still have a few albums of Roy but my favorite is a box set of 6 vynl records of his songs from the sixties RIP Roy
May God forever bless you Roy. Always in all of our hearts.
I would like to thank roys mother and father ,
For giving us the best singer songwriter that ever walked the earth
If Orbison were on The Voice- all 4 chairs would spin so fast they would be Hospitalized for whiplash. He's The Best Ever.
It's hauntingly beautiful
Roy could sing from a phone book and bring you to tears with how melodramatic it becomes with his voice. My favorite of his will always be "In Dreams" but he has so many great songs!
I absolutely love in dreams...😢 I love singing this
He gets the girl in only two or three of his songs. Beautiful voice Running scared is my favorite....happy ending
He had a right to feel that way after losing his wife in an accident, and his children in a house fire.
wow thats heavy
I believe he witnessed his wife die in the accident
Al so Roy lost his oldest Brother Grady lee Orbison due to a car crash in 1973
You are hearing the magnificent voice and the lyrics written by Roy Orbison. The words "all the rainbows in the sky start to weep and say goodbye" are almost magical to hear. I don't know how else to express the feelings that phrase stirs in us. Also Roy Orbison is considered to have the greatest voice in popular or R&R music.
My wife says she will play this song at my funeral. Hopefully in 10 years time !! 77 next month.
Just started to cry lost my husband eight months ago to a bacterial infection he told his son he wasn't going anywhere; yet he did
It didn't matter what key, what register, high or low , the quiver of his singing would take you exactly where and what he was feeling in any song he sang. To be one of the best singers to express pain, you have to have experienced pain. Roy knew exactly what pain was. RIP Roy.
Spring of '65---------I was 18 y/o-----------and I almost ran to the record store, after hearing this ! I still have my 45. What a Classic ! The 60's live on, 4-ever. ---------------MJL, 77 y/o
To paraphrase John Lennon, Roy was the only opera singer in rock.
I’d add Elvis to that
@@bobbyhulll8737 i was think that the other day watching unchained melody.
@@markrenton5791 an American Trilogy is pure American opera ua-cam.com/video/0FT3SmZ_zx0/v-deo.html
But look at who John married, John was great at music, not so much anything else. He was an idiot.
The song was written by Roy and Bill Dees. The words are great, the music in the back ground is perfect, and there is even a strum of the guitar that feels like a pain heartbreak, and his voice is so smooth. I used to listen to his music and be so touched, and then I saw him, and it is like a fantasy of what someone looks like was in my head, and I was shocked, and then it all fit together too, just amazing total package! Thanks Harri!
The BEST bar none
This song is one of Roy's most beautiful songs. It was classified as a rock ballad.
The orchestra with full strings absolutely pulls at your heart to make you feel his pain. Can anyone sound more heart broken than Roy? Roy's voice is capable of projecting pain better than anyone else. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Craig. A absolute Masterpiece. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
You’re welcome!
Had a voice smooth as velvet👍👍👍👍
Crying is also a very sad and beautiful song n heart breaking.what intensity filled with emotion😍
@@lindabergman3127 I love his duet with K.D. Lang on Crying. 😊👍✌️🇨🇦
One of the most beautiful voices ever. Saw him live in concert in Maine and they gave him a standing ovation after every song he sang.
"It's over." The end of the world to hear. Incredible songwriter and vocal artist.
My 80 year old brother introduced me to this in the 60s. I was only 14 and it broke my heart then as now. I am 73 and happily married thank goodness.
This song and "In Dreams" could bring a person to a sobbing mess. This guy was so great...
Very beautiful song Craig. I love anything by Roy Orbison.
Thanks!
Hi Harri, however many times I've heard this it still makes me cry. Thank you for your wonderful reaction.
When Roy says it's over, it's over
This was so good I watched it twice...lol
I bought his 45 years ago. And his LPS. I would listen to his music all the time. Great pic thank you
There are no words. Thanks for posting.
Depending on your tastes, between 12 and 18 Roy Orbison songs are bucket-list listens. But you just heard one of my top three for pushing popular music to unprecedented heights. My other two: "Running Scared" and "In Dreams". Works of absolute genius! Can't wait for you to hear them.
'In Dreams' = simply...musical perfection
This song brought tears to my eyes...again , what a vocal performance .
Royorbison was a great singer
We are amazed at his voice, but you really have to admire how he dealt with tragedy and loss.
I think you would enjoy the recording session with Roy Orbison, Barry Gibb, and the Gatlin Brothers singing Indian Summer.
You are so right. Roy Orbison was the master of conveying emotional turmoil and heartbreak combined with a beautiful falsetto voice. As you touched on, Roy's life was very tragic. Maybe it was his own personal heartbreak than gave him this desolate Texan drawl combined with heartache . Maybe. There will never be another singer like Roy Kelton Orbison. Thanks for a great reaction
OAP Here, and British.. am 76 years old, The Big O has been A Top Singer for years gone by and Also Today... all you young ones can DO is knock yesterday Years.. I have lots of your people on Records. going Back more than 60 and up dates on CDS... am Big Big FAN of Roy Orbison...life long 😂❤
5:46 "That 'it's over' cry is one of the most painful, distressing, spine-tingling things you could ever hear in your life." Amen, brother.
Harri, this is one of your very best reactions -- you are exquisitely sensitive to the emotional distress in this song. Orbison would be proud to have you as a listener.
You won't be seeing rainbows anymore. That line always just killed me. This Arrangement is absolutely fantastic as well. The backing vocals are tremendous. Everything about this song is just so amazing.
Roy's voice really does send shivers down your spine.
2 minutes and 47 seconds of operatic heartbreak, desperation and ecstasy. Never to be equaled in popular music.
Roy was the hottest song writer in Nashville for years before he cut his first album. He was painfully shy
My late wife and I went to see Roy in concert and this was his final song. He did encores. The crowd would not let him leave.
The facts are that Roy had an incredibly sad and tragic life. I believe he lost his first wife and child in a house fire. I think he lost another child from his wife in a second marriage. This poor man, knew about Heartache and pain, firsthand. He and Elvis, and Johnny Cash were close friends, and started at the same small upstart record company in Memphis called "Sun Records."
Not exactly. He lost his first wife in a motorcycle accident (they were returning home from a race, and he suddenly realised she wasn't following him any more: he came back and found she had been killed by a lorry which had crashed into her motorcycle). Two years later, when Roy had already met his second wife but they hadn't married yet, his two oldest sons were killed in a fire at his home while he was touring the UK. His parents could only save his youngest son. Afterwards, he had two more sons by his second wife. But all of this happened years later Roy had recorded his most famous songs about hearbreak.
No he lost 2 children
He counted the likes of Elvis and Johnny Cash as close friends, and Bruce Springsteen, Bono. k.d. Lang and more idolized him. Watch the Black and White Night concert, and Bruce is just giddy to be singing and playing alongside his hero.
Roy Orbison has a voice that sounds like he really knows the pain he sings about. All his many hits have this verisimilitude. It’s uncanny how his songs can move us. A perfect playlist on a lonely misty rainy day.
Roy Orbison has always affected me deeply even when I was young. He is and always will be one of the greatest entertainers ever. His music and voice seemed to reach deep inside you and touch you where you live. Amazing!!
What a joy to watch your reaction to my generation's music.
I forgot just how great his voice was. I know he wrote some great songs but his voice was perfect for this genre.
One of my favorit Roy Orbison song 😍
Running Scared...is another one of his beautiful songs 🎵
Honest to god my dad absolutely was roy orbison voice twin..he won a competition on irish rte tv in the 90s and everytime he did karaoke he made people go mad..😂 he sounded exactly like him 🎉 hes 78 now and still sings ! My mam sounded like a 60s singer too!! His brothers were in the cadettes band in the 60s in Dublin and played trumpet and drums do music is in our family.
Very heartfelt. Roy was incredible…
Roy was known as the "Caruso" of Rock - after the famous opera singer of the '30s and '40s -Enrique Caruso.
You also like crying. This is a heartbreaker
I think my favorite Orbison song is “Crying”. I had actually just commented on another “It’s Over” video 10 minutes ago about how beautiful the “All the rainbows…” lyric was, so I agree that “It’s Over” is the Roy Orbison song with the best lyrics, but I like “Crying” best because it is such a vocal tour de force.
After my baby son died, this song has always brought me to tears. I just realised that when my husband left me for my best friend, this song, still, only reminds me of the loss of my baby even though both were heartbreaking. I guess it's because this song came out at the time of my baby leaving.
You talk about how Orbison's AMAZING voice can convey both heartbreak and joy - have you heard his "Running Scared"? Heartbreak and joy...IN THE SAME SONG. Incredible!
And on top of that Roy Orbison died at 52 years old of a heart attack. His heart just couldn't stand no more. A true and tragic legend. By the way, your reactions are good stuff indeed.
I heard this song when it was first released. It has always been one of my top favourite songs. That's why I came to watch this video. Sadly no longer with us, but he had a remarkable voice.
I really enjoy your program great job.
No one can match his unique power. Harri, Have you seen Roy Black and White Nights w/ all the stars?
Totally agree -- nothing else I've ever heard conveys the feeling of lost love so perfectly.
Roy Orbison was probably the first power ballad singer
Roy and Bill Dees wrote this song. It is pure poetry.
The pride of Vernon, Texas.
TX has a ton of music icons, but Roy is arguably the finest vocalist she ever produced.
Roy had more than his share of tragedy in his life. His first wife was killed in a motorcycle accident. His two eldest children died in a house fire. Many people would have lost it at that point. But he poured his soul out through his songs. And he never allowed it to make him a bitter person. He remained friendly with people, friends and fans alike, and died well before his time.
Roy wrote or co-wrote pretty much all of his hits; certainly this one.
"Transports himself to all that pain" ....exactly the right sentiment.
He was a musical treasure. Time will only bring is great voice to new generations.
Just incredible.
I’ve been weirdly obsessed with Roy for years and this summer visited the tiny Texas town he grew up in and desperately wanted to get out of. I consider it a pilgrimage.
From your dreadlocks to your toes! Love it! Great reaction!
I’m so happy you loved this so much Harri! It’s my favorite Roy Orbison song simply because of all of those reasons you said. Great!
Brings tears to my eyes. Always
Love love his voice! One of my favourite.
" It's Over " is an American song composed by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees and sung by Orbison.
My wife just stopped me and ask what I was listening to.... Roy Orbison.... 'even the sound from your headphones sounds brilliant' she said ... because it's Roy Orbison! Talking of brilliant... so are you Harry.
Thank you @Craig and @Harri… so achingly beautifully 🇨🇦
You’re welcome!
I loved your review, thank you Sir.
I love your analysis videos, and in particular when it comes to the Big O himself. I've always said his voice is the closest we can get to listening to a ghost singing. It's so spectral, so ethereal, so otherworldly.
I like running scared because the good guy gets the girl at the end and in dreams
It was written by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees.
I had a cat for many years. The cat got cancer. There wasn't anything that could be done about it, so when she really started suffering I had to drive her to the vet to be put down. Of course I was heartbroken and somewhat distraught. On the way I turned on the radio and it was in the middle of this song, just beginning the chorus "It's over, it's over ...". I literally burst into tears. I always loved this song, still do, even though it brings back that memory every time I hear it.
I always loved Roy Orbison, every since Running Scared came out. Got to me meet him about six months before he died when my brother produced a concert by him. What a humble and sincere person he was.
Thanks for sharing! 👍
Roy was the king of the crashing crescendo's, to be sure. And, yes; I believe that he and Bill Dees wrote this.
Roy was Legendary, on that we agree for sure!! I think we feel Roy's music more than hearing it!!
“Oh what a thrill.” The Mavericks. (Raul Malo) Another associate of Roy’s. The talent cup runneth over.
If you get a chance another one of his great ones is Leah. You'll love that one
Yes!
George Harrison said the opening line of this song was the saddest opening line in music.
Well said, Bro. I agree with everything you said about this song.
Very emotional always liked Roy I am a 60's child
Hated it as a child. Love it now!
From the heart with little effort or strain in his voice! He finished on a HIGH with The Wilburys
Such an icon! He could make singing a phone book good.
Such a great singer. He puts his heart and soul into his music. His voice is absolutely amazing.
Roy Orbison had one of the most smooth powerful voices. He could sing real high falsetto & also low. Elvis Presley loved Roy's voice. Roy had lots of hits in the 60's such as "Only the Lonely", "Running Scared", "Crying", "In Dreams", "Love Hurts", "Blue Bayou" & "Oh, Pretty Woman". In 1988, he co-founded the Traveling Wilburys (a rock supergroup) with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, & Jeff Lynne. They had some great songs such as "Handle With Care" & "End Of The Line".
Great request Craig. Harri, I agree Orbison can sing sadness better than anyone.
Thanks!