“Pretty Woman” is a song, released in August 1964, which was a worldwide success for Roy Orbison. Recorded on the Monument Records label in Nashville, Tennessee, it was written by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees. The song spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. “Pretty Woman” was also Orbison’s third single to top the British singles chart (for a total of three weeks). The previous Orbison singles to reach No.1 in the UK were “Only the Lonely” in 1960 and “It’s Over” earlier in 1964. There were three guitar players on the session, Billy Sanford, Jerry Kennedy and Wayne Moss. Billy Sanford, who later played session for everybody from Elvis to Don Williams (and took to the road with Don in the 1990s) did the kick-off. Williams introduced him as a kid who had just arrived Nashville, with a borrowed guitar, who heard Orbison was minus a guitar player, who went over and got the gig.
Although the official recording appeared in August 1964, the Beatles recalled Orbison having written and performed the song during a mid-1963 tour of the UK on which both acts performed.
Five years after its release, in 1969, the single was awarded gold record by RIAA. Orbison posthumously won the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for his live recording of the song on his HBO television special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. In 1999, the song was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and was named one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #222 on their list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”
By Roy Orbison
Lyrics
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Pretty woman, walking down the street Pretty woman, the kind I’d like to meet Pretty woman, I don’t believe you it must be true No one could look as good as you( Mercy! )
Pretty woman, won’t you pardon me Pretty woman, I couldn’t help but see Pretty woman, Oh you look lovely as you could be Are you lonely just like me Pretty woman, stop a while Pretty woman, talk a while Pretty woman, give your smile to me Pretty woman, yeah yeah yeah Pretty woman, look my way Pretty woman, say you’ll stay with me Cause I need you, need you tonight Pretty woman, don’t walk on by Pretty woman, don’t make me cry Pretty woman, don’t walk away, yeah, ok If that’s the way it must be, ok I guess I’ll go home It’s late, maybe tomorrow night But wait.. what do I see She’s walking back to me Wow! Wow! Pretty woman |
美麗女子，走在大街上 美麗女子，正是我想認識的那一型 美麗女子，我不敢相信那是真的 沒有人像你這麼美的
美麗女子，請原諒我 美麗女子，我情不自禁的想看你 美麗女子，你真是可愛極了 你是否像我一樣寂寞？ 美麗女子，稍等一下 美麗女子，聊聊天吧 美麗女子，給我一個微笑 美麗女子，yeah yeah yeah 美麗女子，看看我 美麗女子，說你想留下來陪我 因為我需要你，我今晚需要你 美麗女子，別走過去 美麗女子，別讓我哭 美麗女子，別走開 如果結果真的是這樣 我想我會回家去 天色不早了，也許等明晚吧 等一等，我看到了什麼？ 她轉身向我走回來 噢！ 美麗女子 |