Saturday Early Show Featuring Barclay James Harvest and Roy Orbison

by Robert Wilkinson Our early show features Roy Orbison and British Prog-Rock! We begin the show by celebrating the birthday of the legendary songwriter Bill Dees (January 24, 1939 - October 24, 2012). Primarily known for his collaboration with Roy Orbison, he also wrote or co-wrote many other tunes for some of the greatest country stars in history. We’ll begin with a live 1965 performance of his greatest tune, “Oh Pretty Woman” He also co-wrote this monster hit! “It’s Over” He and Roy wrote all the songs for the soundtrack of the movie Roy starred in, The Fastest Guitar Alive Taken from that album, here’s Johnny Cash’s version of “Best Friend” Here’s Bob Luman’s covers of Bill and Roy’s “How Do You Start Over Again” and “Sugar Man” We’ll close this brief tribute with an album Bill did which has tunes he wrote with Roy, as well as by himself. Bill Dees – Saturday Night At the Movies You can find a lot more of his tunes at Saturday Night Attitude Dancing at the Happy 2020 Birthday of the Legendary Roy Orbison ********* Our second set celebrates the birthday of Mel Pritchard (20 January 1948 – 28 January 2004), drummer for the British prog-rock band Barclay James Harvest. As guitarist and front man John Lees (January 13, 1947) just had a birthday as well, let’s check out this band! I first turned on to them with this awesome blues performance! Live in 1974, here’s the video for “For No One” (Not the Beatles’ song!) Also from 1974, a driving 10+ minute music video of a live performance of “Medicine Man” Live in 1975, a great performance of “Moongirl” Live on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977, “Rock And Roll Star” Live in Berlin in 1982, here’s the anthemic “Child of the Universe” From 1984 in Wembley, “For Your Love” (Not the Yardbirds song!) Live in East Berlin in 1987, “Medicine Man” Live in London in 1992, the stomping “Life is for Living” From 2010, live in a studio with an audience in London, BJH give us one of their most famous tunes (which does resemble the title!) “Poor Man’s Moody Blues” Here’s their first album, released the Summer of 1970! Barclay James Harvest Their second album was even stronger! From 1971, Once Again From that album, “Mocking Bird,” and the beautiful “Galadriel.” Also from that album, a 1974 audio-only live performance of “She Said” From 1972, their album Baby James Harvest From 1974, their album Everyone is Everybody Else We’ll close this show with a full 50 minute concert from 1980 in Berlin, next to the Reichstag and Berlin Wall! Barclay James Harvest – A Concert for the People Our encore is another 50 minute video clip of some great performances! Barclay James Harvest – The Ultimate Anthology © Copyright 2022 Robert Wilkinson

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