Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison

"Pretty Woman" is a song, released in August 1964, which was a worldwide success for Roy Orbison. Recorded on the Monument Records label in Nashville, Tennessee, it was written by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees. The song spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

Billboard ranked the record as the No. 4 song of 1964."Pretty Woman" was also Orbison's third single to top the UK Singles Chart chart (for a total of three weeks).The previous Orbison singles to reach No.1 in the UK were "Only the Lonely" in 1960 and "It's Over" earlier in 1964.

There were three guitar players on the session, Billy Sanford, Jerry Kennedy and Wayne Moss. Billy Sanford, who later played session for Elvis and Don Williams and many others, played the intro guitar. Williams introduced him as a kid who had just arrived Nashville, with a borrowed guitar, who heard Orbison was minus a guitar player, who went over and got the gig. Other musicians on the record included Floyd Cramer on piano, Bob Moore on an upright bass, Boots Randolph and Charlie McCoy on sax, and Buddy Harman and Paul Garrison on drums. Orbison also played a 12 string epiphone.



The record sold seven million copies and marked the high point in Orbison's career.Within months of its release, in October 1964, the single was awarded a gold record by RIAA.

Orbison posthumously won the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for his live recording of the song on his HBO television special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night.

In 1999, the song was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and was named one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #222 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time," and in 2012, Texas Music magazine ranked the song No. 7 on its list of "The Top 50 Classic Texas Songs."
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Pretty Woman

Pretty woman, walking down the street

Pretty woman, the kind I like to meet

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth

No one could look as good as you, mercy

Pretty woman, won't you pardon me?

Pretty woman, I couldn't help but see

Pretty woman, you look lovely as can be

Are you lonely just like me?

Pretty woman, stop awhile

Pretty woman, talk awhile

Pretty woman, give your smile to me

Pretty woman, yeah, yeah, yeah

Pretty woman, look my way

Pretty woman, say you'll stay with me

'Cause I need you, I'll treat you right

Come to me, baby, be mine tonight

Pretty woman, don't walk on by

Pretty woman, don't make me cry

Pretty woman, don't walk away, hey, okay

If that's the way it must be, okay

I guess I'll go on home, it's late

There'll be tomorrow night, but wait

What do I see?

Is she walking back to me

Yeah, she's walking back to me

Oh, oh, pretty woman

Pretty woman, don't walk on by

Pretty woman, don't make me cry

Pretty woman, don't walk away, hey, okay