Music singer who had the best voice in the opinion of Elvis Presleyrei do Rock never spared praise to a contemporary artist who replaced him at Sun Records – and the admiration was reciprocated writing

Throughout the career, Elvis Presley shone with his own songs and also risked some covers in live performances, such as Frank Sinatra and from Beatles. An artist, however, the king of rock Never dared to interpret: Roy Orbison.

Not because the songs displeased him. Quite the contrary. Elvis never sang anything from Orbison’s repertoire because he thought I couldn’t Be up to the original recordings.

On several occasions, as in the period when he was a resident artist of the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & CasinoElvis even said that Roy was “The Greatest Singer in the World”. For him, the idol had “The most perfect voice”.

Orbison was contemporary of Elvis Presley, but hit the star shortly after the rock king. He was hired by Sun Records In 1956 after suggestion of Johnny Cash “And precisely to replace Elvis, who was leaving.”

Its most glorious phase, however, would come in Monument Recordsin the first half of the 1960s, when “Oh, Pretty Woman”, “Only the Lonely“, “Crying”, “In Dreams” and “Running Scared”.

Roy Orbison admired Elvis Presley

The reciprocal was true. Roy Orbison was also a great admirer of Elvis Presley. He made a point of attending the professional colleague’s shows and said:

“His energy (Elvis) was amazing, his instinct was simply fantastic. I just didn’t know what to do with that. There was just no other reference point in culture to compare.”

In the late 1980s, Big O, as it was known, was part of the supergroup Travelling Wilburys next to Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne. He died in 1988 at the age of 52, the victim of a heart attack.

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