Melson recognized the potential in Orbison's voice, encouraging the singer to explore its power through their first collaboration, " Only the Lonely.

Essentially a compilation of songs from his first two Monument albums, it is most noteworthy for containing " Pretty One ", the " B " side of Orbison's second Monument single, " Uptown ".

This makes Orbison's recording of " Love Hurts " the first version to be a hit.

Orbison's first releases reflected the style in " Ooby Dooby ", " Go!

Orbison's first meeting with John Lennon was awkward because Orbison was overwhelmed with the amount of advertising devoted to The Beatles when Orbison was supposed to headline the show.

Meanwhile, after entering the United Kingdom Singles Chart on April 30, 1964, " It's Over " reached No. 1 on June 25, 1964 ( making it Orbison's second UK No. 1 single first was " Only the Lonely " in 1960 ).

Sam Phillips remembered being much more impressed with Orbison's mastery of the guitar than his voice ; a ballad Orbison wrote called " The Clown " was met with lukewarm appreciation at best.

Wesley Rose, at this time acting as Orbison's agent, moved him from Monument Records to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ), for a million dollars and the understanding that Orbison would expand into television and films as Elvis Presley had done.

Fred Foster later argued that Rose's takeover was responsible for the commercial failure of Orbison's work at MGM ; engineer Bill Porter agreed that Orbison's best work could only be achieved with RCA Nashville's A Team.

That year she also performed " Turn Me Round " at the closing ceremonies of the XV Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, and sang background vocals with Jennifer Warnes and Bonnie Raitt for Orbison's acclaimed television special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night.

The special consisted of a performance of many of Orbison's hits at the then Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove nightclub ( Los Angeles ) in Los Angeles, filmed on September 30, 1987, approximately fourteen months before his death.

Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits is a Roy Orbison 33 record album from Monument Records recorded at their studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee and released in 1962.

Brian Poole & The Tremeloes also had success in the UK in 1964 with covers of Roy Orbison's B-side, " Candy Man " and a previously obscure Crickets ' B-side ballad, " Someone Someone "; both entered the UK Singles Chart Top Ten, with the latter peaking at No. 2.

On May 14, 2008, Wells ' " It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels " was added to the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress, along with Roy Orbison's " Oh, Pretty Woman ".

More of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits is a Roy Orbison album from Monument Records recorded at their studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee and released in 1964.

On July 21, 1968, Barbara ( then 18 years old ) met the 32-year-old Orbison when he asked friends to introduce him to her at a nightclub in Leeds, England, during Orbison's tour of Great Britain.

Roy Orbison's Many Moods, also known as The Many Moods of Roy Orbison, is an album recorded by Roy Orbison for MGM Records, released in May 1969.

Despite Orbison's death, the remaining group members recorded a second and final studio album, which they intentionally misnumbered Traveling Wilburys Vol.

Jeff Lynne collaborated with Del Shannon on his 1991 album Rock On, which spawned rumors that Shannon would fill the late Orbison's position in the group.

During their time together, the five members of the Traveling Wilburys frequently collaborated on each others ' solo records ; Lynne and Petty worked on Orbison's final album Mystery Girl ( 1988 ), Harrison played on Dylan's Under the Red Sky ( 1990 ), and Petty and Harrison worked on Lynne's Armchair Theatre ( 1990 ); Lynne produced Petty's solo albums Full Moon Fever ( 1989 ) ( which involved all the Wilburys, save for Dylan ) and Highway Companion ( 2006 ), as well as the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Into the Great Wide Open ( 1991 ).

Jennings also wrote several songs for Roy Orbison's King Of Hearts album.

Other cuts on the " Cosmo's Factory " album included an eleven-minute jam of the 1967 and 1968 R & B hit " I Heard It Through The Grapevine " ( which would become a minor hit when an edited version was released as a single in the 70s a few years after the group's breakup ) and a nearly note-for-note homage to Roy Orbison's " Ooby Dooby.

This was Orbison's third album on the Monument label.

This was Orbison's fourth album on the Monument label, named for the hit 45rpm single.

The second song of interest on this album is " Come Back to Me My Love " which Fred Foster, owner of Monument Records and producer of all of Orbison's earliest hits, says was the song which inspired production of the hit arrangement that later became " Only the Lonely ".

In 1957, Frank Sinatra recorded a song of the same name for the album Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely ( not related to Orbison's recording ).

There, under Don Gant, Folger wrote songs for Acuff-Rose Music including the song " Amy ", which appeared on the 1969 album, Roy Orbison's Many Moods.

She produced Damien Leith's album, Roy: A Tribute To Roy Orbison, which was released by Sony BMG in Australia on April 15, 2011 to coincide with what would have been Roy Orbison's 75th birthday.

In 1963, " Mean Woman Blues " was recorded again, this time by Roy Orbison on a 45rpm single that went to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 music charts and was part of Orbison's 1964 album, More of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits.

It appeared on Orbison's final album, Mystery Girl, released in 1989.

In addition to the album released in 1963 and the re-recorded album of hits in 1987, a Canadian documentary on Orbison's life and impact on rock and roll also touched on the theme exemplified by the song ; it was titled In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story and released in 1999.

The song also appears on Orbison's 1964 album More of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits and his 1989 posthumous album A Black & White Night Live from the 1988 HBO television special.

In the final vocal heat that determined selection into the final thirty, Cole performed a version of Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman, titled Pretty Boy.

The loneliness in Orbison's songs that he became most famous for, he both explained and downplayed: " I don't think I've been any more lonely than anyone else ...

While most men in rock and roll in the 1950s and 1960s portrayed a defiant masculinity, many of Orbison's songs instead conveyed a quiet, desperate vulnerability.

Both of Orbison's parents were unemployed during the Great Depression, so the family moved to Fort Worth for several years to find work, until a polio scare prompted them to return to Vernon.

On his sixth birthday, Orbison's father gave him a guitar.

Orbison's major musical influences as a youth were in country music.

Songwriter Joe Melson, an acquaintance of Orbison's, tapped on his car window one day in Texas in 1958 and the two decided to try to write some songs together.

Eddie Cochran and fellow Texan Buddy Holly — both of whom Orbison had previously toured with — had died, to Orbison's deep astonishment.

Orbison's former Sun Records colleague Jerry Lee Lewis was disgraced when his marriage to his 13-year-old cousin was reported widely in the press.

This combination became Orbison's trademark sound.

The composition of Orbison's following hits reflected " Running Scared ": a story about an emotionally vulnerable man facing loss or grief, culminating with a surprise ending in a crescendo that employed Orbison's dynamic voice.

Orbison's second son was born in 1962, and Orbison hit number 4 in the U. S. and number 2 in the UK with " Dream Baby ( How Long Must I Dream?

Touring in 1963 took a toll on Orbison's personal life.

Orbison's success was greater in Britain ; as Billboard magazine noted, " In a 68-week period that began on August 8, 1963, Roy Orbison was the only American artist to have a number-one single in Britain.

" Oh, Pretty Woman " proved the pinnacle of Orbison's career in the 1960s.

However, Rose also began acting as Orbison's producer.

Orbison's character was a spy who stole and had to protect and deliver a cache of gold to the Confederate Army during the U. S. Civil War and was outfitted with a guitar that turned into a rifle.

His youngest son with Claudette ( Wesley, born 1965 ) was raised by Orbison's parents ; Orbison and Barbara had a son ( Roy Kelton ) in 1970 and another ( Alexander ) in 1974.