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“Oh, Pretty Woman” is a song, released in August 1964, which was a worldwide success for Roy Orbison. Recorded on the Monument Records label in Nashville, Tennessee, it was written by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees. The song spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. “Oh, Pretty Woman” was also Orbison’s third single to top the British singles chart (for a total of three weeks). The previous Orbison singles to reach No.1 in the UK were “Only the Lonely” in 1960 and “It’s Over” earlier in 1964. The well-known guitar performance on “Oh, Pretty Woman” was by Wayne Moss later of Barefoot Jerry. Although the official recording appeared in August 1964, the Beatles recalled Orbison having written and performed the song during a mid-1963 tour of the UK on which... Read on...