Archive for January 6th, 2010
Is there a better or more familiar guitar riff in all of music than that of “Oh, Pretty Woman”. This song was written and released by Roy Orbison in 1964.
It spent three weeks at #1 in the Billboard Charts, has a spot in the list of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, and is #222 in the list of “500 Greatest Songs of all Time”. The movie “Pretty Woman” was inspired by this song.
In 1989 “2 Live Crew” covered the bass guitar line along with their own words in a parody of the song. Van Halen recorded their own version of this song giving it that familiar hard rock electric guitar sound, but for me there’s nothing like the origonal, the simple sounding twang of Roy’s memphis jazz electric guitar is all this song needsand that’s why it’s a classic.