Tuesday 28 December 2021

I drove all night

An incredible song of passion written by the songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly to be sung by Roy Orbison. However, Orbison died before the record sessions were completed and the song wasn't firstly released with his voice. Steinberg and Kelly also wrote "True Colors" for Cyndi Lauper and she took their "Drove All Night" making an amazing version. Orbison's version would be released later, in 1992, with an excessive 90's mainstream style, which did not turn the song a Rock'N'Roll classic it would deserve to be. An edition made in 2017 with orchestra, did not save Roy's version either. The best version, still is Cyndi's, the 1st one. It is also the song where she showed that she's not only a funny rebel singer. She's a great singer.

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