Description:
The Velvets were an atypical vocal group hailing from Odessa, Texas and were recommended to producer Fred Foster by his main artist Roy Orbison. Features the songs "Tonight Could Be The Night," "Time And Again," "Spring Fever," "That Lucky Old Sun," "Laugh," "Lana" and others. The Velvets didn't conform to any of doo wop's norms. In the age of the streetcorner amateur, they made records as polished as their patent leather shoes. Weirdest of all, the Velvets barely dabbled in R&B. Like their mentor, Roy Orbison, they sang songs which straddled that increasingly invisible line between country and pop. The Velvets and Roy Orbison shared the same producer in Fred Foster and the same session musicians in Nashville's A Team. In essence, the Velvets dusted Orbie's sombre, bel canto agonies with a faint but cheerful shot of proto soul. |
Tonight (Could Be The Night)
