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I was just watching Roy Orbison and Friends: Black and White Night (1988) on the local PBS channel KCET and noticed in the credits: "Mike Utley-Himself". Didn't see him but wasn't looking.

Didn't realize the Coral Reefer connection to Roy Orbison!

Midnight Flyer wrote:I was just watching Roy Orbison and Friends: Black and White Night (1988) on the local PBS channel KCET and noticed in the credits: "Mike Utley-HImself". Didn't see him but wasn't looking.

Didn't realize the Coral Refer connection to Roy Orbison!

Hmmm---it was just on here, but I didn't watch much of it.

Midnight Flyer wrote:I was just watching Roy Orbison and Friends: Black and White Night (1988) on the local PBS channel KCET and noticed in the credits: "Mike Utley-HImself". Didn't see him but wasn't looking.

Didn't realize the Coral Refer connection to Roy Orbison!

Psssst! What's a "refer"?

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:

Midnight Flyer wrote:I was just watching Roy Orbison and Friends: Black and White Night (1988) on the local PBS channel KCET and noticed in the credits: "Mike Utley-HImself". Didn't see him but wasn't looking.

Didn't realize the Coral Refer connection to Roy Orbison!

Psssst! What's a "refer"?

HUSH! It's something you put your food in to keep it COLD!!!!!!

I watched that too but did not notice it either.
I love Roy's background vocals on "Beyond The End"

Midnight Flyer wrote:

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:

Midnight Flyer wrote:I was just watching Roy Orbison and Friends: Black and White Night (1988) on the local PBS channel KCET and noticed in the credits: "Mike Utley-HImself". Didn't see him but wasn't looking.

Didn't realize the Coral Refer connection to Roy Orbison!

Psssst! What's a "refer"?

HUSH! It's something you put your food in to keep it COLD!!!!!!

I know it was just the effects of that orange flavored "nyquil".

You know I love you...

If I remember correctly, Mike Utley was the music director for that show. It showed him a few times playing piano.

Check out http://www.buffettnews.com/forum/viewto ... ht=orbison

and yes, "our Mr. Utley" was the musical director of the special Orbison show
that is shown as a fundraiser on PBS. I bought the DVD shortly after seeing
it on TV last December. It was the year before Roy Orbison died, and he only
agreed to do the show if it were recorded in black & white.

Michael Utley also produced a couple of Orbison recordings about that time.

EDIT: Oops! I stand corrected! Thanks Conched. I couldn't find the specifics on the DVD.

I got this DVD a while back and I went to watch and Michael is not the musical director-- T Bone Burnett is. Michael is the arranger/conductor.



Des, I was contradicting my own post and not yours.

Mike did produce In Dreams, which was a controversial Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison, with all the originals rerecorded.

One more post.

http://margaritaville.com/CRB_utley.php

This says it all??

Additionally, he produced Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits album, and was producer/musical director for the Cinemax special, "Black and White Night" with Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, and Tom Waits .