1977 - Roy Orbison Interview (2022 Remaster)

This a repost that has been completely remastered.
In June of 1977, the legendary Roy Orbison performed a concert at the Cranbrook Memorial Arena. Before the show was to start, EK Radio's F.J. Hurtak and Cable 11's Mike Turner waited patiently outside the arena in hopes of "ambushing" Orbison into giving an interview. The rest is history on video.
When we first published this video in 2019 (our first video post!), we had three second generation dubs to choose from. This remaster used a freshly discovered copy from an old 3/4 tape and the quality is much better.
For the video remaster portion, each of the roughly 6600 frames of the interview were exported and ran through Gigapixel Topaz A.I., one frame at a time, then compiled back into a video file. In the A.I.'s attempts to recognize faces, there are some artifacts remaining that we chose not to remove out of fear of damaging the clip. It's not perfect, but it is certainly much better than it was.
The audio was a different story. In 2019 we originally tried to combine the camera microphone with F.J.'s cassette recording but the results were mixed. This copy used only the camera microphone for the audio....with a pile of audio plugins to remove the hum, hiss and additional artifacts. You can only do so much with a bad recording.
Special thanks goes to my fellow team member, Carolyn. Carolyn has truly excelled while working with us and she's become brave enough to try new things. The result of her attempt at remastering the original video was what prompted this total remaster - and without her inspiration to do it, it never would have got done. Thank you, Carolyn!
Ken Newman was present when this video was shot, and there has been some debate over who actually ran the camera, Mike or him. We'll just leave it at that.

[@katr8756]

What a workhorse!! Touring 6 months out the year is a long time to be away from home! Especially every year for years and years!! But he said in one UK interview when ask if he toured because he enjoyed it, or for financial reasons? After a slight pause, he said, "both!" And this was in 87 or 88 not long before he passed. He left Barbara, his wife, one of the wealthiest widows in the music industry. I surely do love that guy and his voice!!

[@Morrkevi1963]

Roy’s brother Sam is in the footage at 3:42 mark .He wore clear glasses and looked very similar to Roy .I met Sam in 84 and 92 . He was also was apart of a legend show with Orbison impersonator.

[@maxboonkittypoison]

This is the year Roy had a triple bypass surgery. Wish he was stil among us at 86 years old.

[@eivindgjengstjohansen9625]

41 and a triple bypass he should have quit smoking and stopped yo-yo dieting

[@maxboonkittypoison]

@@eivindgjengstjohansen9625 Yes you are right. Also the last thing he tried was sport. But at that stage his heart was weaken too much. So he did everything to shortening his life :o

[@CoverSongsRikiStorm]

Elvis had jump suits so Roy got it made for him. He liked it.

[@heatherl6369]

Hey we were at the boys and girls club in this day.. he signed our hand lol

[@davidhenrywall8619]

Great clip of roy orbison

[@erikastapelfeldt850]

Auf deutsch

[@adrinathegreat3095]

Damn I thought he was about to speak to An Elvis impersonater

[@lauraramoslopez3349]

M' agrada molt en Roy Orbison, per mi no hi ha altre igual però... això que porta posat, per l' amor de deu ( i no soc creient) era necessari ??? Ja se que eren altres temps i ho entenc..el que no entenc es com la Barbara Orbison el va deixar sortir al carrer aixì.. perdoneu però ho havia de dir!!!! Roy Orbison per sempre!!!❤

[@thereevesbrothers]

The guy doing the interview doesn’t know anything about Roy’s current career! 😂

[@BennyMcGhee]

Aw man that jumpsuit looks so uncomfortable.

[@barbaraschlosser-i6l]

He doesn´t see himself as another Elvis, does he? ;)

[@RetroCranbrook]

It almost has that same kinda look, but then again, maybe their suits were "in style" then? lol

[@barbaraschlosser-i6l]

Yeah, might as well be. @@RetroCranbrook