Mp3 music: Orion

Artist: Orion: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Trance: Psychedelic Drum & Bass     Orion's discography:      Futuristic Poetry    Year: 2005    Tracks: 9      Subtitles (SUBTITLES034)    Year: 2004    Tracks: 2      Futursic Poetry    Year: 1997    Tracks: 8 The music industry is filled with many strange tales of artists whose lives took unexpected turns on the meandering route to success, only the saga of isaac Merrit Singer Jimmy Ellis is perchance one of the weirdest of them all. He was professionally known as Orion, and his double-edged holler to fame was that his natural speaking and singing voice sounded most precisely like that of Elvis Presley. Ellis hailed from Orrville, Alabama and began his recording life history in 1964. In 1972, he worked for Sun Records (Presley's label) with producer Shelby Singleton in Nashville. His first deuce singles were covers of 2 of the King's onetime hits, "That's All Right" and "Aristocratical Moon of Kentucky." The unusual share of the narrative began in January, 1979 when source Gail Brewer-Giorgio received a outlandish early morn speech sound call in. Two age before she had begun a novel around a musical genius, Orion, wHO faked his possess death to happen much-needed peace and secrecy, based on the circumstances encompassing Elvis' death. The mystic earphone call came from a stranger with a Presley-like voice, claiming to be Orion. A year prior, Jimmy Ellis' voice had been overdubbed with Jerry Lee Lewis on an sure-enough single from the Sun archives, "Salvage the Last Dance for Me; " on it, Ellis was billed alone as "Friend." The single made the Top 20 and caused quite a excite as listeners tested to imagine the secret "Friend's" identity. An album featuring the duo came forbidden and the contention actually heated up when Good Morning America had the Friend's voice "scientifically scanned and analyzed" and over that it could be no nonpareil just Presley. Giorgio's book had just issue forth verboten, so Singleton decided to john Cash in on its popularity and transform Jimmy Ellis into the mystic "Orion" world Health Organization had phoned the author sooner that year. Ellis' pilus and long sideburns were bleached black, and he dressed in a loud, bejeweled polyester jumpsuits, with a mask to protect him from half-crazed fans. "Orion" recorded a single, "Ebony Eyes," for Sun in 1979, which became parting of his debut album, Born-again. The album overlay itself generated controversy because it depicted a fantasm vocalizer rising from a coffin, and was afterward withdrawn. He released two more albums in 1980; the one-third, Threesome Plus, featured Orion's voice overdubbed on old cuts with Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Charlie Rich. The albums were quite popular, and Orion had three Top 70 hits, including "Am I That Easy to Forget." He had four minor hits the following year, including the contemporary rockabilly song "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," originally recorded by the rock grouping Queen. Ellis continued recording and acting through and through 1983 as Orion, and scored only one more minor hit in front nerve-racking to expose his Sun undertake to become a accepted performing artist in his have proper. While playacting at the Eastern States Exposition, Ellis took cancelled the mask and swore to never have on it once more. Unfortunately, despite the fact that most of the songs he recorded were not covers of Elvis songs, he could non escape the eldritch similarities betwixt their natural voices. At one point he even released the single "I'm Trying Not to Sound Like Elvis." During his time with Sun, Ellis/Orion cut over 11 albums and toured with the Oak Ridge Boys, Jerry Lee Lewis, and other stars like Dionne Warwick. As Jim Ellis, he released an album in 1987 and continued to spell North America; interestingly, he resumed wearing his block out. On December 12, 1998, Jimmy Ellis was dig and killed by a humankind wHO was robbing his pawnshop in Alabama.