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I'm Still in Love with You (Roy Orbison album)

{{Infobox album

| name = I'm Still in Love with You

| type = Studio

| artist = Roy Orbison

| cover = I'm Still in Love With You - Roy Orbison.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 15, 1975

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Country

| length = 30:06

| label = Mercury

| producer = Jerry Kennedy

| prev_title = Milestones

| prev_year = 1973

| next_title = Regeneration

| next_year = 1976

}}

I'm Still in Love with You is the nineteenth album by Roy Orbison, recorded for Mercury Records and according to the authorised biography of Roy Orbison, released in September 1975.{{Cite book|title=The Authorized Roy Orbison|last=Orbison|first=Roy|publisher=Center Street|others=Orbison, Roy Jr.; Orbison, Wesley; Orbison, Alex; Slate, Jeff|year=2017|isbn=978-1-4789-7654-7|edition=First|location=New York|pages=247|oclc=1017566749}}

It features a mix of originals and covers of songs by Johnny Ace, and Buck Owens. it also features of new verison of "Heartache" (which He previously recorded on Roy Orbison's Many Moods 6 years earlier in 1969).{{Cite book |last=Kruth |first=John |url=https://archive.org/details/rhapsodyinblackl0000krut/page/146/mode/2up |title=Rhapsody in black : the life and music of Roy Orbison |date=2013 |publisher=Backbeat Books |others= |isbn=978-1-4768-8679-4 |location=Milwaukee, WI |pages=146}}

History

After an eight-year stint with MGM Records, he left MGM in 1973, and signed with Mercury a year later. This album had three singles. This album was only released in the United States.

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}

| rev2 = Rolling Stone

| rev2Score = (Unfavorable)[https://web.archive.org/web/20071111061410/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/royorbison/albums/album/272725/review/5941636/im_still_in_love_with_you Album Reviews: Roy Orbison – I'm Still in Love with You], Rolling Stone, 1975

| rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2007 |publisher=Omnibus Press |page=1062 |isbn=9781846098567 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo0000unse_v3u2/page/1062/mode/2up |accessdate=29 August 2024}}

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William Ruhlmann of AllMusic thought "Their conception seems to have been to create a Roy Orbison album in the singer/songwriter's classic early-'60s style. For that, Kennedy has brought in outside songwriters Larry Gatlin ("Circle") and Bud Reneau ("All I Need Is Time") to contribute big, melodramatic ballads like the ones that gave Orbison big hits in his commercial heyday."{{Cite web |last=Ruhlmann |first=William |title=Roy Orbison – ''I'm Still in Love with You': Album Ratings & Reviews |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/im-still-in-love-with-you-mw0000224803 |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=AllMusic}}

Billboard in its Top Country Album Picks reviews stated that the album "features a collection of lonely love songs in a new Orbison style."{{cite magazine |date=October 4, 1975 |title=Billboard Top Country Album Picks: I'm Still in Love with You |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1975/Billboard%201975-10-04.pdf |magazine=Billboard |page=64 |volume=87 |issue=40 |editor=}}

Ellis Amburn described the album as "Disappointing"{{Cite book |last=Amburn |first=Ellis |url=https://archive.org/details/darkstarroyorbis00ambu/page/173/mode/2up |title=Dark star: The Roy Orbison Story |date=1990 |publisher=Carol Pub. Group |isbn=9-780818-405181 |location=New York, NY |pages=173–174}}

Track listing

;Side one

  1. "Pledging My Love" (Don Robey, Ferdinand "Fats" Washington)
  2. "Spanish Nights" (Roy Orbison, Joe Melson)
  3. "Rainbow Love" (Don Gibson)
  4. "It's Lonely" (Orbison, Melson)
  5. "Heartache" (Orbison, Bill Dees) – new lyrics

;Side two

  1. "Crying Time" (Buck Owens)
  2. "Still" (Dorian Burton, Howard Plummer)
  3. "Hung Up On You" (Orbison, Joe Melson)
  4. "Circle" (Larry Gatlin)
  5. "Sweet Mama Blue" (Orbison, Melson)
  6. "All I Need Is Time" (George W. Reneau)

Produced by Jerry Kennedy

Executive Producer: Roy Orbison

Arranged by Bill Justis

2002 re-release

In 2002, the album was re-released in the UK in CD format by Spectrum Music with a different track order.

  1. "Pledging My Love"
  2. "Rainbow Love"
  3. "Heartache"
  4. "Still"
  5. "Circle"
  6. "All I Need Is Time"
  7. "Spanish Nights"
  8. "It's Lonely"
  9. "Crying Time"
  10. "Hung Up On You"
  11. "Sweet Mama Blue"

References

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Category:Roy Orbison albums

Category:1976 albums

Category:Albums arranged by Bill Justis

Category:Mercury Records albums