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like to share with us? we'll love to hear it, send me an e-mail or go to our web site. >> a rock 'n roll legend. >> crazy thing about roy orbison from 1959 to 1964 he had 21, top 40 hits. >> he dies too soon with 3 young sons. >> he se secretly wanted us to e musicians but he was not going to push. >> i rubbed my eyes and look add the this. >> i have a cassette of a song nobody heard before. before. >> it will bring roy and his boys together again. jamie: had you always dreamt of plays with your dad. >> always, yeah. >> have mercy.
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jamie: i am jamie colby, today i am cruising into nashville, tennessee, music city. i am on my way to meet the sons of rock legend roy orbison, the man who gave the world, oh, "pretty woman," only the lonely you and got it, left his heirs an unexpected treasure, possibly the opportunity of a lifetime. >> i am alex orbison, my dad passed away in 1988, my brothers and i, drive years later found something, that would help us realize a life long dream. >> alex. >> hello. jamie: how are you? >> i am in hendersonville, just outside nashville, alex has invited me to a muhsal lan muhsl
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landmark. what is this place? johnny cash built it. >> one of the best recording studios in the world. jamie: families were close. >> yes. >> i can't wait to learn more, i would love to see inside. >>, of course. jamie: this cabin has been a creative refuge for dozens of major recording artists, but also like home to roy's boys. and linked to their late father. what was he like as a dad? >> wonderful. jamie: born in 1936, roy spent much of his youth in vernal, vernon, texas. >> he had his first radio show as an 8 year oeuldz oelz, he knn the door, he said i am roy orbison, i want to play some songs for you guys.
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jamie: in 1955, a fateful meeting with johnny cash, gets him an invitation to sun records in tennessee, not long after roy marries his childhood sweetheart, they move to nashville, roy rockets to the top of the charts with a string of hits. jamie: was oh, "pretty woman" a game changer. >> they love the song it made him a international super star. jamie: roy and claudette have three boy, roy, anthony and wesley, roy can't ask for more. then in 1966, tragedy strikes. >> claudette and my dad were coming back from the drag races on their motorcycles, at the end of the ride, truck pulled on ut and claudette was killed instantly.
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jamie: as 30-year old widower with three young sons, roy relies on his parents who live across the street for child care, he writes and tours, back in nashville, young wesley finds comfort in his father's songs. >> how it visited with him, he was on the road all of the time, so, that was i just always, would go to those records and listen. jamie: on tour in leads eengland, his drummer insist he go out and have fun, at a nightclub he meets 17-year-old beauty barbara skwraeu jacobs. >> he ran into my mom, and he looked over said grab that girl i'm going to mary her. jamie: they fell in love, starting a long distance romance, he suffers another devastating loss, on sep 15, a
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fire rips through his home in nashville. jamie: where was he? >> the last show of a tourer in gland. he was showing pictures of boys and how happy we were. he found out,. jamie: roy's parents, and 3-year-old wesley escape. but his two older sons, 10-year-old roy dwayne, and 6-year-old tony are killed. >> was it something your dad was able to talk about. >> i have gone back to interviews, he said, if you look back and you are not a crazy person, you be crazy for what you did have not for what you don't have. jamie: barbara jacobs helps him through the grief. in 1969, they married. go on to have two boys, roy jr., and alex. for now roy's career takes a backseat, to family life. >> did he encourage you to play? >>ly did not push us, he just
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left guitars around the house for us to find. jamie: had you always dreamt of playing with your dad. >> always, yes. jamie: as 1980s unfold, entertainment world reguess covered roy orbison. linda ronstadt, covers blue by bayou and van halen "pretty woman," they become hits. and his song in dreams for his film blue velvet. >> david lynch loved hreudz his music. jamie: roy orbison is making a comeback, inducted to rock 'n roll hall of fame by none other than the boss, and while roy works on recording a new album called mystery girl, producer jif lynn introduced him to tom petty, the three with old friends bob dylan and george
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harrison start jamming each other's houses. >> out was that was the traveling wilburys. jamie: that was released in 1988. and mystery girl to be released in february, a milestone roy never reachs on december 6, 1988 he dies of a massive heart attack while visiting his parent's home in nashville, 52 years old. >>y was crushed -- i was crushed as a 12-year-old kid, such a loss, no real way to describe it in words. >> but the classic songs and timeless sound live on. orbison continues to be irresisttable to hollywood, a year after his date, pretty woman the ma movie makes julia roberts a super star, and orbison is as big in death as he was in life.
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jamie: inheritance is strange but the legacy is love. >> that is next. >> first our "strange inheritance" quiz question. what was roy orbison's first number one single?
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>> what was roy orbison's first number one single? it is only the lonely released on march 25, 1960, reached number 2 on billboard top 100 before going to number one in great britain. jamie: music legend roy be on soorbisondies from a heart attan nashville, in december 1988, he was 52 years old, and about to release a album mystery girl. he has another hit. >> from outsiders perspective this would be a tragedy that roy did not leave t to see the succs of this, i think my dad was already in a new career peak, where he was not walking down the street without getting mobbed. jamie: the song, you got it makes it to top 10 in start. >> quiout sit. jamie: in case you need a
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refresher, my trip comes with a serenade from wesley orbison. ♪ from you ♪ -- i'm crying, okay. >> ♪ i pray that you are here this day ♪ anything you want ♪ you got it. >> roy orbison passed down his love of music, and that sound. when their mother barbara dies in 2011, roy a boys are also the hairheirs to his music library,y work on a rerelease of mystery girl, they hope to produce a
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deluxe version with previously unreleased tracks. >> i realize we had unreleased material that no one had known what to do with it. jamie: roy's boys believe somewhere in the massive archive there must be a song of a recording they remember their dad singing around the house. a family favorite, calld the way is love. >> he was just saying it umumbling it, that was coming out of him. >> ag. alex decides this is the perfect song to include. but he can't find the tape anywhere, what amounts to 30-years worth of material. >> we have it cataloged pretty well, but there was a large pipe of stuff that could not,. jamie: you said i have to dig in? >> whatever you are doing, drop it wild getting in that vault, and find this tape. >> did you have to listen 2,000s
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of things? >> i have been in archives for hours, and out of the -- i laid my hand up on the wall, and irut what is this? jamie: after weeks of searching, origin at cassette tape for the way is love is sitting in front of him. filled with excitement alex calls family friend, john carter cash, son of the late johnny cash. >> he said, listen, i have this cassette same of this song nobody heard before, however it was an old tape recording, with tape wor worbre . pitch would go up and down. jamie: audio energy, plays me the original cassette tape just as alex discovered it.
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>> you can hear all of the artifacts are the analogue cas sit, the his -- and cassette, the hiss, and the worbbl e . >> roy's boys, and john charter cash look for someone to restore the recording. >> to the end of the internet, john carter had a meeting with one of the guys from sony, he said i know a guy in germany who specializeed in this stuff. jamie: did they get it right? >> they said there was nothing they could do. >> your heart must have sank. >> it was heartbreaking almost like roy orbison is gone. jamie: is all hope lost? or has dad left his boys another surprise. >> it gave me cold chills, like wow. jamie: next on strang "strange
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inheritance." >> which of following artist covered roy orbison's "pretty pretty women?
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anniversary rerelease. this time with bonus tracks from the vast music library they inherited. one ballot in particular, the way of love, had never been heard in public. alex hunts down the recording among thousands, but it is low qua quality. and the brothers cannot agree on what to do next. >> i wanted to release it like that, i like the hiss, i had a little bit more of an obstacle what are we adding to this or tamper with a masterpiece. jamie: dmasterpiece. >> the thing is the way of love. quality of recording did not pass on its own. jamie: audio is so bad, they can't be sure what the words are. >> as we were working on it we were writing down the words.
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jamie: just when it seems it is time to pull the plug they have a breakthrough. >> a couple weeks go by. i am? one of johnny cash's filing cabinet looking for song lyrics, there are lyrics from the way of love by roy sor or orbison. jamie: it is amazeing. >> it gave me chills. jamie: then a surprise call from the germany engineers with a new super computer they find a solution to restore roy's vocals, remember before? ♪ >> we took it from that, came up with this -- >> the way you love. jamie: wow.
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wow. gives you chills. >> it does. jamie: now they recovered their dad's voice, the brothers are ready to do something they wantd to do sing they were kids, record a song with their father, roy with his boys. >> i said we should play on this, what do you think? one of the pause then said sure, 100% we should do that. jamie: did anything say that is crazy or you all in? >> we were all in. >> everyone is ready to rock 'n roll. roy jr., wesley, and john carter cash agree to play guitar, alex will play drums, and all of roy's boys will sing back up vocals. jamie: listening to it in the raw form, and you guys added on. >> the way is love, the title it is there. >> about to fulfill their
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jamie: it is spring 2014 just outside of nashville, tennessee. 25 years after death of roy orbison. his sons have restored a homemade recording he did of a song, called, the way is love. jamie: take me in that room you hear your dad's voice from the heavens. >> it was like hearing an old friend. it was surreal. but also familiar feeling. >> as they prepare to record. they get a unexpected case of
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the butterflys. >> i was nervous the night before, i could not sleep, they had to drag me in to play guitar it was like skydiving. >> i remember specifically thinking this is one of the toughest songs we could do, it is not quick, it is not technical but it is free-flowi free-flowing. jamie: were there tears. >> tears of joy kind of, almost like climbing on the top of a mountain, and just a sense of relief. >> to hear the boys, they are singing with their father after all these years, so inspiring, it gave us a chance to get in the family. >> like your dad. >> your dads were.
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jamie: 25 anniversary edition of roy orbison's mystery girl is releaseed on may 20,2014, box set includes a documentry directed by alex. >> we did a premier here in nashville, then one in l.a. >> wesley of the like, now the album is out, when do we do it again. >> i can't tell you how much it meant, this location is special, this is johnny's place, johnny was our godfather. john carter is my first friend, my best friend, i think that parents would look down on us we're just kids playing around the big boy's game. >> my trip to nashville would not be complete without a private gilt ar lesson from roy -- guitar lesson from roy
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orbison -- jr. that is. >> okay got it. >> okay. >> you can do this. >> 1, 2, 4 -- >> 2, 5. >> where is 5. >> right there. >> 5, okay, 1, 2, 4, 2, 5 ♪ >> that is it. that is actually it. jamie: remember i said orbison left other music, and previously unreleased material? here is the story. back in early 1970s, orbison became disenchanted with his record label mgm records and lift, some of the albums were shelved, another project for roy's three sons and next generation of fans, i am jamie colby for "strange inheritance" thank you for watching and remember, you can't take it with you.
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