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Orbison

NOUN
  1. United States composer and rockabilly tenor popular in the 1950s (1936-1988)

How To Use Orbison In A Sentence

  • Siobhan shook her head in grim amusement as Orbison came to his vaguely masturbatory climax and the answerphone clicked off. The Priest
  • The label pulled together songs by British and American artists, some well-known Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, others largely forgotten. The Economist: Daily news and views
  • Orbison's vocal range spanned three octaves.
  • Orbison's vocal range spanned three octaves.
  • Cuomo's voice, too, has changed over the years, losing some of its hangdog kickability and gaining faint echoes of Roy Orbison's ruefulness, as ‘The Other Way’ hints.
  • With their inherent drama, influenced by French chanson , his new songs could be easily rearranged for vocalists as varied as Chris Isaacs, Raul Malo or Bon Iver's Justin Vernon; the late Roy Orbison would have had much to choose from had he the chance to explore the Condon canon. The Heart of Beirut's Brass Melancholia
  • T-Bone Burnett earned his greatest renown as a producer, helming recording sessions for acts ranging from Roy Orbison to Sam Phillips.
  • Note in particular how the opinion imputes the motivations of the narrators in the 2 Live Crew version to the narrator in the Orbison song. If a book meets a book coming through the rye
  • The song is a tribute to Roy Orbison.
  • 'The soundtrack in my head is Roy Orbison singing \ "It\'s over, it\'s ooooooover, \" and it doesn\'t matter that the \ "it\" for him was a love affair and not a college app. Karen Stabiner: The College Insider: Admissions Freak-Out Countdown #9 - The Post-App, Pre-Notification Sounds Of Silence, Unless You're A Junior.
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