# Roy Orbison

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 25, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison/590231 "2011-07-25T02:05:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison/590231/5 "2011-07-25T03:21:34Z")

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I saw Roy here at the Austin Aqua Festival just few months before he died.

He LOOKED absolutely ridiculous- he was fat and pushing 60, but was still dressing like a Fifties greaser. But I swear, his voice was at LEAST as good as it had ever been. He hit every note, and had me in tears a few times.

Oddly enough, though, I thought Linda Ronstadt’s cover of “Blue Bayou” was better than Roy’s, mainly because I didn’t like the arrangements on Roy’s single.

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