Roy Orbison - It Takes All Kinds Of People Lyrics

a true song that fits all our lives

This is a very good song by Roy,  I never heard it before, Great job singing, Roy

That last note!

a strong piece, very strong.

this vid is underrated it deserves way more respect

MGM did pay him a million bucks....and that was in the 60's !!

well what a mistake they made with roy the greatest  ever  singer I miss him so much

MGM were outright wrong with what they did to Roy....they deliberately engineered a down turn in his music career at MGM
they also started rejecting Roy's views on A and B sides for the singles releasing B sides for A sides so it would add too the downward turn in his career .....Roy at that point when back to monument and record Lana :) MGM hated that but look what happen Roy had a hit single again :) Good old Roy showed them.....

When the public hears for the first time these songs left unreleased from MGM in the 1972 and 1973, you will be blown away by how powerful these songs truly are. Some are better than the ones they picked to release on MILESTONES and the unreleased album collection from 1972 is a whole other project that needs to be heard by all, and hopefully these gems bouncing around the fans will indeed be heard.

MGM tried to get Roy to change his style of music...but Roy refused which of course they didn't like. He also got payed less than other musicians...

Just to clear things up.....most of the last albums and singles.... of the last part of Roy's MGM years were not the final takes they were rejects which MGM engineered a down turn in Roy's recording because he wouldn't do what they asked and start changing his style of singing.....MGM wanted him to sing all that shit hippy LSD drug crap music....He refused saying he would Rather go out the music world with what he had always done than sing that stuff and he did.....Also Roy didn't like the fact he had to keep chasing his money towards the last part of the MGM years, There were 2 company's one who done the payment side the other one the recording side....Roy said it didn't work in his favour.

I think any quibbles over the 'technical perfection' of the ending are neatly offset by the heights Roy rises to. I mean, this is probably the *highest* note he ever hit. Not necessarily the *best* perhaps, but still exhilarating, and still better than the 'competition'. One of the classics from his 'Sings' album.

I have not noticed anything like that! And these little mistakes make artist human. It is surely overshadowed by the unbeliavable passion of this performance. Why alaways have to be so clean and polished. The Moonshine War ending scene in which is song is heard can be found here in Youtube. Very iconographical scene when everything has been "blown away".

I'm a big fan of Roy Orbison, I consider him the greatest singer ever, but what happened at the end of the song? I'm the only one who has noticed how his voice breaks? How he allowed to keep to this take?

Yes, I noticed...

@angel aguilar I also noticed, but does it really matter? I mean i love the ending anyway. :)

this song wasn't a final cut yet it got used, so what if Roy's voice broke? we still love his music..

I have just bought this album on eBay today and cannot wait for it to arrive so I can hear this song (and the others) on vinyl.

It is a great album one of my favs by Roy.

The writer was Arther Rigsby, my best friend.. he got $1.47 a year for it.

Beautiful song,sang with so much passion!!!