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"She's a Mystery to Me" is a song by Roy Orbison, written by Bono and the Edge of U2. It was released on Orbison's final (posthumous) album, Mystery Girl (also inspiring the album title), and as the album's second single in March 1989. [1] The song was received favorably by several music critics and is considered one of the highlights of the album.
Mystery Girl is the twenty-second album by American singer Roy Orbison. It was his last album to be recorded during his lifetime, as he completed the album in November 1988, a month before his death at the age of 52, and it was released posthumously by Virgin Records on January 31, 1989. [ 2 ]
"Oh, Pretty Woman", or simply "Pretty Woman", is a song recorded by Roy Orbison and written by Orbison and Bill Dees. [3] It was released as a single in August 1964 on Monument Records and spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 from September 26, 1964, making it the second and final single by Orbison (after "Running Scared") to reach number one in the United States. [4]
Pretty Woman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 1990 film Pretty Woman, released on March 13, 1990, by EMI. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The album features the song " Oh, Pretty Woman " by Roy Orbison , which inspired its title.
This became "She's a Mystery to Me", a song written by Bono and The Edge for Orbison. It appeared on Orbison's final album, Mystery Girl , released in 1989. [ 28 ] On the same album, "In Dreams" received a companion piece, "In the Real World", written by Will Jennings and Richard Kerr . [ 29 ]
Dees eventually made his way to Nashville, Tennessee, where his meeting with Roy Orbison led to a collaboration that produced a string of successful songs for Monument Records, including the hits "Oh, Pretty Woman" and "It's Over". [2] In 1967, Dees co-wrote all the songs for the Orbison album and MGM motion picture The Fastest Guitar Alive. [3]
"Pretty Woman", a song by Robbie Williams from the 2016 album The Heavy Entertainment Show; Pretty Woman: The Musical, a 2018 musical; Pretty Women, a song in the 1979 musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street "Oh, Pretty Woman", a song by A. C. Williams recorded on Albert King's 1967 album Born Under a Bad Sign, later recorded by ...
On July 9, 2019 Wesley Orbison and Alex Orbison joined the cast on stage to perform "Oh, Pretty Woman" to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the song's release and to pay tribute to their late father Roy Orbison. [25] The production closed on August 18, 2019, after 27 previews and 420 regular performances. [26] [2]