During three recording sessions in 1958 and 1959, Orbison and Melson recorded seven songs at RCA Nashville, with Atkins producing, but only two songs were judged worthy of release by RCA ; Wesley Rose maneuvered Orbison into the sights of producer Fred Foster at Monument Records.

In his first session for Monument in Nashville, Orbison took on a song that RCA had refused, " Paper Boy ", backed by " With The Bug " as the B-side, but neither charted.

Founded by Sam Phillips, Sun Records was known for giving notable musicians such as Elvis Presley ( whose recording contract was sold to RCA Victor Records for $ 35, 000 in 1955 to relieve financial difficulties Phillips ' Sun was going through ), Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash their first recording contracts and helping to launch their careers.

The zydeco favorite " Joli Blon " was one of the first songs Orbison sang in public.

In high school, Orbison and some friends formed The Wink Westerners, an informal band that played country standards and Glenn Miller songs at local honky-tonks, and had a weekly radio show on KERB in Kermit.

Playing shows late into the night, and living with his wife and young child in his tiny apartment, Orbison often sought refuge by taking his guitar to his car and writing songs there.

With this combination, Orbison recorded three new songs, the most notable of which was " Uptown ", penned by himself and Melson.

According to Orbison, the subsequent songs he wrote with Melson during this period were constructed with his voice in mind, specifically to showcase its range and power.

Bruce Springsteen ended his concerts with Orbison songs and Glen Campbell had a minor hit with a remake of " Dream Baby ".

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.

In the 1960s, Orbison refused to splice edits of songs together, and insisted in recording them in single takes with all the instruments and singers together.

The only convention Orbison followed in his most popular songs is the time limit for radio fare in pop songs.

Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before " Only the Lonely ", he claimed never to have learned how to write them: " I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say ' This is the way you do it ,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way .... So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes ... But that's always after the fact — as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me.

In concert, Orbison placed the uptempo songs between the ballads to keep from being too consistently dark or grim.

Orbison often excused his motionless performances by saying that his songs did not allow instrumental sections so he could move or dance on stage, although songs like " Mean Woman Blues " did offer that.

He has written songs for other musicians, including Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison.

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She has contributed songs to movie soundtracks and has teamed with musicians such as Roy Orbison, Tony Bennett, Elton John, Anne Murray and Jane Siberry.

Four songs from the film's soundtrack entered the record charts in the United States: " Crying " by Roy Orbison ( re-recorded as a duet with k. d.

They played numerous Elvis covers and two original songs, together with their usual set of Blues, Rockabilly, Country and 1960s covers including Roy Orbison and The Monkees.

Dees eventually made his way to Nashville, Tennessee where his meeting Roy Orbison led to a collaboration that produced a string of successful songs for Monument Records including the hits Oh, Pretty Woman and It's Over.

Orbison recorded in the 1970s, but his albums performed so poorly that he began to doubt his talents.

However, very little of what Orbison recorded met these characteristics.

The band recorded two albums in 1988 and 1990, though Orbison died before the second was recorded.

Singers such as Sonny Burgess (" My Bucket's Got A Hole In It "), Charlie Rich, Junior Parker, and Billy Lee Riley recorded for Sun with some success, while others such as Jerry Lee Lewis, BB King, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins would become superstars.

Some of the notable recorders at Sun were Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich and Conway Twitty ( who at that time recorded under his real name of Harold Jenkins ).

In addition to playing piano and Hammond organ with the Heartbreakers, Tench is also known as a skilled session musician, having recorded with dozens of notable artists, including Johnny Cash, U2, Elisa, Stevie Nicks, Lucinda Williams, Sam Phillips, You Am I, Susanna Hoffs, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, The Rolling Stones, Don Henley, John Prine, Ringo Starr, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Waylon Jennings, Paul Westerberg, X, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Carlene Carter, The dB's, Alanis Morissette, The Ramones, The Screaming Trees, The Tragically Hip, The Divinyls, The Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, The Cult, The Jayhawks, Dave Rawlings, Fiona Apple, Lone Justice, Sean Watkins, New Found Glory, Tift Merritt, Peter Case, Neil Diamond, Ryan Adams and Powderfinger, Naughty Sweeties City of Glass, as well as many others.

* January 3 – The Cinemax television special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night, recorded on September 30, 1987 at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, USA, is broadcast.

The song has been recorded by Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra ; Steve Conway with Jack Byfield & his Orchestra ; Thomas Hampson with Jay Ungar ( mandolin ), David Alpher ( piano ), and Molly Mason ( guitar ); John Leyton ; Jerry Lee Lewis ;, and Roy Orbison on the album In Dreams ( a top ten Australian single in 1964 ).

Orbison also later recorded Lana.

His last hit collaboration with Orbison came in 1963 with the writing of " Blue Bayou " although some of their cooperative efforts would be recorded in later years.

" The track " Endless Lies " was intended as an homage to Roy Orbison, and was originally recorded for the never-released double LP version of Secret Messages ; it reappeared on this album in a slightly reworked and more compact form.

The American version of the album included a song originally recorded by The Everly Brothers, and also covered by Roy Orbison, the melodic ballad " Love Hurts ", that was released as a hit single in the UK and in the US, where it went platinum.

This album's second and final single was a cover of " I Drove All Night ", a pop standard originally recorded by Roy Orbison.

Mystery Girl is the last album recorded by Roy Orbison, posthumously released on the Virgin label in 1989.

Cindy Walker wrote the song " Dream Baby ( How Long Must I Dream )", which was recorded by Roy Orbison ( who also recorded a version of " Distant Drums ").

Rock-and-roll, country music, and rockabilly artists, including Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Charlie Feathers, Ray Harris, Warren Smith, Charlie Rich, and Jerry Lee Lewis, recorded there throughout the mid to late 1950s until the studio outgrew its Union Avenue location.

Their other hits include " In Your Room " ( The Bangles ), " Spirit of Love " ( by Laura Branigan ), " I Drove All Night " ( recorded by Roy Orbison, Cyndi Lauper and Celine Dion ), " I Touch Myself " ( Divinyls ), " Sex as a Weapon " ( by Pat Benatar ), and " Look Me in the Heart " ( by Tina Turner ).

* " I Drove All Night ", recorded by Cyndi Lauper, by Roy Orbison and by Celine Dion

All the Orbison children were afflicted with poor eyesight ; Roy used thick corrective lenses from an early age.

When they were offered $ 400 to play at a dance, Orbison realized that he could make a living in music.

The song was " Only the Lonely "; Orbison and Melson had earlier tried to pitch it to Elvis Presley and the Everly Brothers but were turned down.

When Claudette walked in the room where Dees and Orbison were writing to say she was heading for Nashville, Orbison asked if she had any money.

However, tragedy struck on June 6, 1966, when Orbison and Claudette were riding home from Bristol, Tennessee.

Orbison was initially shocked at its use: he saw the film in a theater in Malibu and later said, " I was mortified because they were talking about the ' candy colored clown ' in relation to a dope deal ...

Some of the musicians who worked with Orbison were confounded by what he asked them to do.

Carl Perkins, however, toured with Orbison while they were both signed with Sun Records and recalled a specific concert when Orbison covered the Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald standard " Indian Love Call ", and had the audience completely silenced, in awe.

Bob Dylan marked Orbison as a specific influence, remarking that there was nothing like him on radio in the early 1960s: With Roy, you didn't know if you were listening to mariachi or opera.

When Orbison started with " Crying " and hit the high notes, Goodwin stated, " The strings were playing and the band had built up, and sure enough, the hair on the back of my neck just all started standing up.

The Traveling Wilburys ( sometimes shortened to the Wilburys ) were an English – American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, accompanied by drummer Jim Keltner.

Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Roy Orbison all made their first recordings there and were " discovered " by Phillips.

The Chantays toured Japan and the US joining the Righteous Brothers and Roy Orbison on a few occasions, and they were the only rock and roll band to perform on the Lawrence Welk Show.

Among the artists who made their first recordings on Sun were Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Muddy Waters, Howlin ' Wolf, Ike Turner, Carl Perkins, and Charlie Rich.

Other celebrity admirers of Orbison were in the audience, including Billy Idol, Patrick Swayze, Sandra Bernhard, and Kris Kristofferson.

The song " Pretty Woman " by Roy Orbison was reused in the film, and the rights were acquired.

The Beatles were presented one of their awards by actor Roger Moore and Richard was joined on stage by Roy Orbison, to present him his.

The Dubliners also gained popularity amongst famous musicians such as Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason, who were all self-proclaimed Dubliners fans.