Although, I have featured the Traveling Wilburys a couple of times in the past on the site, this will be the first video feature with the super group. A BROW posted in December 2009 (accessible here) went over some background information on the band and goes on to feature a b-side to their She’s My Baby single, the subject of this week’s VOW. The group decided to put out another album after the death of legendary former bandmate, Roy Orbison and the album was titled Volume 3. She’s My Baby was the lead single for the release and has lead vocals from all four surviving members (Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan & George Harrison, in order of appearance). The exciting lead guitar solo was handled by Irish blues rock guitarist Gary Moore (not seen in the video) and the drums are played by old friend, Jim Keltner, who worked with George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr throughout the 70′s and 80′s. Jim also played on the other Traveling Wilburys album Volume One.

The aliases the Wilbury’s used for Volume 3 are as follows:

* Clayton Wilbury (Jeff Lynne) – acoustic guitar, bass, keyboards, lead & backing vocals
* Spike Wilbury (George Harrison) – acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, sitar, lead & backing vocals
* Boo Wilbury (Bob Dylan) – acoustic guitar, harmonica, lead & backing vocals
* Muddy Wilbury (Tom Petty) – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, lead & backing vocals
* Buster Sidebury (Jim Keltner) – drums

Click the image above to play the video.

Here are a few links from Amazon to read about or purchase releases related to this post:

1) The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 3 2007 remaster featuring She’s My Baby

2) Traveling Wilburys (2 CD / 1 DVD) – collection of their 2 studio CDs (Vol. 1 & Vol. 3, which contains She’s My Baby, along with bonus DVD of extras including the promo film featured here, remastered in 2007.

3) More links for your favorite Beatles-related music: The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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Welcome to the BROW. A couple of months ago when I made a post about The Traveling Wilburys, the song I featured had no vocal, so I’ve decided to let you hear them sing this time. The lead vocals here are handled by Clayton Wilbury (i.e. Jeff Lynne), though you can hear, Spike, Muddy and Boo (i.e. George Harrison, Tom Petty & Bob Dylan) singing right along with him in the background of the chorus.

Runaway as you may know was a major international hit in 1961 by Del Shannon and written by him and keyboardist Max Crook. Back in June of 2007, a remixed version of this great cover by the Wilburys appeared as a bonus track on the Traveling Wilburys Collection CD/DVD set. It had never appeared on LP/CD, but the original mix appeared in the UK on the 12 inch vinyl single and CD single of She’s My Baby (no longer available), as a b-side, in November of 1990. It was never released in the US.

The remixed version on the newer CD has a new clavioline solo replacing the guitar/harmonica solo heard on the original. This was such a “full-circle” addition considering that Max Crook was actually the inventor of his own clavioline-based keyboard which he called a musitron back around 1960. The recording below illustrates how the 2 mixes differ and show you first, the original solo (also heard above), then, the remixed 2007 solo.

My personal copy of the 12 inch UK single She's My Baby by The Traveling Wilburys, released in 1990

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