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The Essential Roy Orbison
''The Essential Roy Orbison'' is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Roy Orbison, released on March 28, 2006.Roy Orbison – The Essential Roy Orbison at Target
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Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. Orbison's most successful periods were in the early 1960s and the late 1980s. He was nicknamed "The Enrico Caruso, Caruso of Rock" and "The Big O." Many of Orbison's songs conveyed vulnerability at a time when most male rock-and-roll performers projected strength. He performed with minimal motion and in black clothes, matching his dyed black hair and dark sunglasses. Born in Texas, Orbison began singing in a Country music, country-and-western band as a teenager. He was signed by Sam Phillips of Sun Records in 1956 after being urged by Johnny Cash. Elvis was leaving Sun and Phillips was looking to replace him. His first Sun recording, "Dick Penner#Ooby Dooby, Ooby Dooby", was a direct musical sound-a-like of Elvis's early Sun recordings. He had some success at Sun, but en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crying (album)
''Crying'' is the third album by Roy Orbison, released in January 1962. It was his second album on the Monument Record label. The album name comes from the 1961 hit song of the same name. In 2002 the song was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award, and In 2004, it ranked #69 on ''Rolling Stone'' Magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The album was ranked No. 136 on ''Pitchfork'''s 200 Best Albums of the 1960s. Crying also features Multiple covers songs including "The Great Pretender", "Love Hurts", and the early recordings of "She Wears My Ring" (which would become a huge hit for Country Singer Ray Price in 1968). The album debuted on the ''Billboard'' Top LPs chart in the issue dated April 7, 1962, remaining on the chart for 31 weeks and peaking at number 21. It entered the UK albums chart on June 30, 1963, reaching number 17 over the course of three weeks. it also debuted on the '' Cashbox'' albums chart in the issue dated April 7, 1962. and remained on the chart fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Angel (song)
"Blue Angel" is a song by Roy Orbison, released as a single in August 1960. Released as the follow-up to the international hit " Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)", "Blue Angel" peaked at number nine on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number eleven on the UK's ''Record Retailer'' Top 50. Background and release "Blue Angel" followed its predecessor, "Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)", in very much the same style with Orbison once again able to show off his falsetto and semi-operatic vocals and also followed its theme of lost love. However, whilst "Only the Lonely" was a gloomy song of self-pity, "Blue Angel" was, according to musician and writer John Kruth, "a dollop of commercial fluff… nd thatlyrically, it was rather sappy, a trite knock-off about teen love, all too typical of its time. Its power lay in its simple but insidious melody." Co-written with collaborator Joe Melson, Orbison recorded "Blue Angel" in early August 1960 at RCA Victor Studio B in Nashville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonely And Blue
''Lonely and Blue'' is the debut studio album by Roy Orbison, released on Monument Records in January 1961. It entered the UK albums chart two years later, on June 30, 1963 and reached number 14 over the course of eight weeks. The track, "Come Back to Me (My Love)", features an almost identical intro to "Only the Lonely" because this is where the vocal figure of "Only the Lonely" came from. The album also features multiple covers of songs from Don Gibson, The Everly Brothers, Gene Pitney, and Johnnie Ray" The album was released on compact disc by Monument Records in 1993 as tracks 1 through 12 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 13 through 24 consisting of Orbison's 1962 album, '' Crying''. Bear Family included also the album in the 2001 Orbison 1955-1965 box set. Sony Music label included this CD in the 2013 Roy Orbison The Monument Box Set. Avid Rock 'n' Roll labels included this CD in the 2017 ''3 Classic Albums Plus'' Box Set. History After a two-year stint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Only The Lonely
"Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)" is a 1960 song written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson. Orbison's recording of the song, produced by Fred Foster for Monument Records, was the first major hit for the singer. It was described by ''The New York Times'' as expressing "a clenched, driven urgency". Released as a 45 rpm single by Monument Records in May 1960, "Only the Lonely" went to No. 2 on the United States ''Billboard'' pop music charts on 25 July 1960 (blocked by Brenda Lee's " I'm Sorry") and No. 14 on the ''Billboard'' R&B charts. "Only the Lonely" reached number one in the United Kingdom, a position it achieved on 20 October 1960, staying there for two weeks (out of a total of 24 weeks spent on the UK singles chart from 28 July 1960). According to ''The Authorized Roy Orbison'', "Only the Lonely" was the longest charting single of Orbison's career. Personnel on the original recording included Orbison's drummer Larry Parks, plus Nashville A-Team regulars Floyd Cramer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Melson
Joe Melson (born May 11, 1935) is an American singer and a BMI Award-winning songwriter best known for his collaborations with Roy Orbison, including "Only the Lonely" and "Crying", which are both in the Grammy Hall of Fame and have both been included in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Melson was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018. Life and career Joe Melson was born in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas, United States. He was reared on a farm until he was sixteen. He attended high school in Gore, Oklahoma, and in Chicago, Illinois, before he returned to Texas to study at the two-year Odessa College in Odessa, the seat of Ector County. He studied and played music as a teenager and fronted a rockabilly band called the Cavaliers. Beginning in 1959, first at his home in Midland, Texas, and then in Nashville, Tennessee, Melson teamed up with Roy Orbison, who had just joined Monument Records, with whom he would soon write a string of hits. Before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits
''Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits'' is a Roy Orbison record album from Monument Records recorded at the RCA Studio B in Nashville, and released on August 1, 1962. Between the hit songs were also "Love Star" and "Evergreen", which were released here for the first time. The single, " Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)", debuted on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the issue dated February 17, 1962, peaking at number four during its 12-week stay. on the Cashbox singles, it reached number nine during its 12-week stay. and number two in The U.K during its 14-week stay. Another Single "The Crowd", debuted on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the issue dated June 2, 1962, peaking at number 26 during its 10-week stay. number 21 on the Cashbox during its 11-week stay. and number 40 in The UK during its four-week stay. According to the authorised Roy Orbison biography, this was Orbison's third album on the Monument label, and his first greatest hits compilation. It was a success remaining in the ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conway Twitty
Harold Lloyd Jenkins (September 1, 1933 – June 5, 1993), better known by his stage name Conway Twitty, was an American singer and songwriter. Initially a part of the 1950s rockabilly scene, Twitty was best known as a country music performer. From 1971 to 1976, Twitty received a string of Country Music Association awards for duets with Loretta Lynn. He was inducted into both the Country Music and Rockabilly Halls of Fame. Twitty was known for his frequent use of romantic and sentimental themes in his songs. Due to his following being compared to a religious revival, comedian Jerry Clower nicknamed Twitty "The High Priest of Country Music", the eventual title of his 33rd studio album. Twitty achieved stardom with hit songs like " Hello Darlin'", " You've Never Been This Far Before", and " Linda on My Mind". Twitty topped '' ''Billboard'''' Hot Country Songs chart 40 times in his career, a record that stood for two decades until it was surpassed by George Strait. He also topped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go Go Go (Roy Orbison Song)
"Go Go Go (Down the Line)" (often credited as "Down the Line") is a song by Roy Orbison, released in 1956. According to the authorised biography of Roy Orbison, this was the B-side to Orbison's first Sun Records release "Ooby Dooby". This was the first song written by Orbison. Background The song was released as a Sun Records single in May, 1956, Sun 242, Matrix # U-193, as the B side to "Ooby Dooby" with the backup group The Teen Kings. The song was later released under the title "Down the Line" by Jerry Lee Lewis and Ricky Nelson. Sam Phillips, the owner and founder of Sun Records, bought out Orbison's songs on Sun Records and placed his name on the songwriting credits although Orbison was the actual songwriter. The song was re-recorded by Orbison with the Art Movement in 1969, for the album ''The Big O'' released in 1970, and was called "Down the Line". Orbison performed the song on his Cinemax cable concert special '' Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night'' in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Penner
Allen Richard "Dick" Penner (born 1936 in Chicago, Illinois – 24 September 2024) is an American retired professor of English, who, while in college in 1955, co-composed, with Wade Lee Moore, "Ooby Dooby", which was recorded and released by Wade Moore and Rod Barkley. The song was later given away and became a rockabilly hit for Roy Orbison. Penner also had been a singer, guitar player, and recording artist. In 1956, Penner switched from country music to rock and roll. That same year, he and Wade Moore (born November 15, 1934, in Amarillo, Texas) formed a duo and recorded for Sun Records. The duo was known as "Wade & Dick—The College Kids". Wade & Dick recorded three songs (with guitarist Don Gililland), "Wild Woman", "Don't Need Your Lovin'", and "Bop Bop Baby", which was included on the album ''Walk the Line'', the soundtrack of the eponymous film biography of Johnny Cash. Penner recorded four on his own (with guitarist "Gypsy" Bob Izer). All four songs exhibited a hard, youth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wade Moore
Wade Hampton Moore (June 14, 1876 – June 14, 1956) was an American football and baseball player and coach. Moore was a graduate of the University of Kansas, lettering for the baseball team in 1898 and 1899, and the football team in 1899. Following his college playing career, Moore became the sixth head football coach for the Kansas State Wildcats in Manhattan, Kansas. He held that position for one season, in 1901, and his overall coaching record at Kansas State was 3 wins, 4 losses, and 1 tie. Moore also played in some of his team's games in 1901, kicking two field goals in a win over Bethany College. After coaching football at Kansas State, Moore turned to playing and coaching minor league baseball From 1902 to 1907 he served as catcher and manager for a series of teams in Texas—in Paris, San Antonio, Houston and Galveston. In 1903, Moore served as player-manager-owner for the San Antonio Bronchos (also known as "Moore's Mustangs"), and led the team to the league champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
