Then Jay sung this 20 feet away and sung it better live at age 60 than it sounds here.
Phenomenal

I have always liked Orbison for his voice AND emotion.

I remember 30 years ago hearing the story of how he wrote Crying sitting in an abandoned car in his parents back yard...as a teen at the time I really identified with what he was going through in that old car.

I will be that bad guy here and say that "arguably" is the key word.

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Yep, gotta admit it, Jay's got a voice for sure.. but (to me at least) that cover lacked the bitter emotions that song carrys. The music arraingement and the background singers detracted from the intensity of the song. It was good, for sure, but it just sounded like someone singing the song, not someone living the song. KD and Roy both "lived" that song in their presentations of it. (imho)

Ok I'll bite who the hell is "the voice & Jay".:head:

Jay Black and the Americans.

Agreed on the emotion part Destroyer, but I see Jay as having that and then some having seen him live four times.
There is a big difference in sound and all the other things from great performers as they mature.
If you listen to Roy in his original recordings, and you listen to him in A Black and White Evening, the quality, tone, the emotion difference is astounding.
It was the same for Jay compared to his original commercial tracks.

Also something else you guys may know but I did not become aware of till earlier this year, from my daughter who is a huge fan of hers.
This young girl is a song writing fool, and a quality Lady to boot.
She performed this live in front of the best in the world at the CMA's this year. Sometimes my daughter is pretty smart.
Oh and if you get a chance to see the video she made of this song, notice at the end the politically incorrect in Hollywood person she is singing it about.
An Iraq/Afghanistan Vet coming home in uniform.
Miss Taylor Swift

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcVnSo8i610

Must be a northern thing: Never heard of him/her before..

So young, so young.... <sigh>....