Daily Eighties Flashback: Roy Orbison & Friends “Oh Pretty Woman”
In October 1989, ten months after Roy Orbison passed away, Virgin records released the album A Black & White Night Live, which featured performances from the 1988 HBO special Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night. From the album, a version of Orbison’s “Oh Pretty Woman” that included the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, and Elvis Costello, among others, was released as a single and video. On this date in 1989, that version of “Oh Pretty Woman” debuted on Billboard‘s Hot Adult Contemporary chart at a peak position of number 48.
