At 03:12 AM 8/5/2003 +0000, donna sue wrote:
>my 70 yr old mom surprised me this weekend by saying she likes the song 
>Pretty Woman and would like a Roy Orbison record ..
>
>anyone here that can recommend the best ONE of his records that I should get 
>for her? All I own is Mystery Girl.

There's a CBS compilation called THE ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS OF ROY ORBISON
that was originally compiled in 1976 and is still the disc to get if you're
just going to get one.  It's the one with the white cover with his
signature slanting across the front.

Beware of the one on Virgin called THE VERY BEST OF ROY ORBISON: it's all
re-recordings of the classic-era stuff.

S

NP: "Apeman" -- The Kinks