* Roy Orbison's Sun Recordings

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.

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.

Fred Foster of Monument Records also heard about McCoy and hired him as harmonica player on Roy Orbison's song " Candy Man ".

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.

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 ".

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.

In 1960, Orbison's style changed when he moved to Monument Records to what he would become known for the rest of his career.

Roy Orbison's version used the lyrics from the Lewis version.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Orbison's career was fully revived in 1987.

Mystery Girl was produced by Jeff Lynne, whom Orbison considered the best producer he had ever worked with, while Bono, Elvis Costello, Orbison's son Wesley and others offered their songs to him.

Orbison's death was an international news event.

Orbison's " In Dreams " was a song in seven movements that can be represented as Intro-A-B-C-D-E-F ; no sections are repeated.

In 1990, Colin Escott wrote an introduction to Orbison's biography published in a CD box set: " Orbison was the master of compression.

Music critic Ken Emerson writes that the " apocalyptic romanticism " in Orbison's music was well-crafted for the films his songs appeared in in the 1980s because the music was " so over-the-top that dreams become delusions, and self-pity paranoia ", striking " a postmodern nerve ".

Orbison's severe stage fright was particularly noticeable in the 1970s and early 1980s.

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.

As a result of one of the group's songs, which used a parody of Roy Orbison's " Oh, Pretty Woman " Campbell was party to Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. which was argued in front of the US Supreme Court.

All the tracks were recorded in late 1988, and it was finalized for release in the weeks following Orbison's death through the collaborative efforts of several artists who were all friends and admirers.

Their final 1983 single was a cover of Roy Orbison's " Working for the Man " ( November ), produced by Mark Moffatt and Ricky Fataar.

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

The Guardian's Betty Clarke wrote a negative review, saying that " Her cover of Roy Orbison's I Drove All Night is full of reverberating notes and sultry asides, but reveals a fundamental lack of sincerity that renders her threatening when she is trying for tender.

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.

It gained notability again in 1987 when Orbison released a re-recorded anthology of his greatest hits ; the year prior David Lynch had used the song provocatively in his dark thriller Blue Velvet, helping to revive Orbison's career.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Orbison's first collection at MGM, an album titled Goodnight, sold fewer than 200, 000 copies.