However, Orbison was readily available to sing, and often became the focus of attention when he did.

The moniker of " The Big O " would eventually follow him back to the States, where it became an unofficial nickname for Orbison.

In January 1989, Orbison became the first musician since Elvis Presley to have two albums in the Top Five at the same time.

" Orbison acknowledged this in looking back on the era in which he became popular: " When came out I don't think anyone had accepted the fact that a man should cry when he wants to cry.

In addition to Orbison, Monument became home to a number of others including: Robert Knight, Kris Kristofferson, Jeannie Seely, Boots Randolph, Dolly Parton, Ray Stevens, Cindy Walker, Tony Joe White, Charlie McCoy, Willie Nelson, Tommy Roe, The Velvets, Connie Smith, Larry Jon Wilson, Larry Gatlin and Robert Mitchum.

Fry also continued as a history teacher at Odessa, and one of his students, Roy Orbison, later became a musical star.

The first song they wrote, " King of Hearts ", was as a tribute to Roy Orbison that was later going to be included on the King of Hearts album and also became the name of the band.

" Claudette ", the second exception, was a song Orbison wrote that became a hit for The Everly Brothers in 1958.

This became " She's a Mystery to Me ", a song written by Bono and fellow U2 member The Edge for Orbison.

In 1980, McLean had an international number one hit with a cover of the Roy Orbison classic, " Crying ".

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

Much influenced by Elvis Presley, Orbison performed frenetically, doing " everything we could to get applause because we had only one hit record ".

Orbison tried one song penned by Boudleaux Bryant called " Seems to Me ".

The latter song also went to number one in America, making Orbison impervious to the current chart dominance of British artists on both sides of the Atlantic.

However, one film in which Orbison refused to allow his music was Blue Velvet.

Now everyone knows that no one sings like Roy Orbison.

" The concert was filmed in one take and aired on Cinemax under the title Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night ; it was released on video by Virgin Records, selling 50, 000 copies.

At the same time Lynne was completing production work on George Harrison's Cloud Nine, and all three had lunch one day when Orbison accepted an invitation to sing on Harrison's album.

" Orbison was given one solo track on the album titled " Not Alone Anymore ".

Although Orbison is counted as a rock and roll pioneer, and has been cited by numerous critics as one of the genre's most influential musicians, his style was noted for how it departed from the norm.

Today, one, the former Granada cinema ( which once hosted Buddy Holly in 1958, and later Roy Orbison and The Beatles in 1963 ), is a bingo hall ; another, the former ABC ( previously Regal ) is a nightclub, while the former Odeon, later Coronet, is now a Pentecostal church.

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.

A short while later, Orbison met the band backstage at one of their concerts and subsequently asked Bono if he would like to write a song with / for him.

Despite making multiple recordings, sharing The Hollies ' manager and supporting slots with the likes of Roy Orbison, Arwyn had minimal mainstream success and only released one single: a cover of the Graham Nash song " Simple Man ".

His colleagues ridicule him for this, one of them saying, " Hit the high note in ' Crying ' and I'll be impressed ," in reference to Orbison and his trademark sunglasses.

* John Peel, the famous British BBC Radio DJ who died in 2004, listed " Running Scared " by Roy Orbison as one of the songs to be played at his memorial service.

While there one day, Deborah met Roy Orbison and songwriter Joe Melson.

The Orbison illusion is one of its variants, while the Wundt illusion produces a similar, but inverted effect.

The Chicago Tribune wrote that the song " builds with the stately grandeur of a Roy Orbison ballad " and that Bono's lyric " We're one / But we're not the same " is one of " pithiest insights yet about the contradiction of marriage ".

The first and perhaps only royalties Orbison earned from Sun Records enabled him to make a down-payment on his own Cadillac.

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.

Orbison was unhappy with the first two takes, but in the third, he abandoned the idea of using falsetto and sang the final high G sharp naturally, so astonishing everyone present that the accompanying musicians stopped playing.

" On opening night, Orbison opted to go onstage first although he was the more established act.

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

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.

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.

Beginning in 1957, first at his home in Midland, Texas, and then in Nashville, Tennessee, Melson teamed up with a virtual unknown by the name of Roy Orbison, with whom he would write a string of hits for Monument Records.

In 1942, Acuff co-founded the first major Nashville-based country music publishing company — Acuff-Rose Music — which signed acts such as Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, and The Everly Brothers.

Using the style of rockabilly, rock & roll, and blues music, the band released their first single, " Go Go Go " ( a version of a Roy Orbison recording ), in the fall of 1963.

On Decca's British London label, which began in 1949, HL was at first used alone, but from 1957 there was usually a following letter denoting the original American label ; thus Atlantic and Atco were HLE, changing in 1960 to HLK, Sun Records was HLS, Jamie ( Duane Eddy's label ) was HLW, and Big Top Records ( Del Shannon, Johnny and the Hurricanes ) was HLX ; while HLU was used for a number of labels including Phil Spector's Philles, and Monument, home to Roy Orbison.

Roy Orbison at the Rock House is the first album by Roy Orbison.

Many Orbison fans believe " Pretty One " would have been his first major hit had it been promoted as an " A " side.

There Is Only One Roy Orbison is the first album recorded by Roy Orbison for MGM Records, released in July 1965.

Lonely and Blue is the first music album recorded by Roy Orbison for Monument Records, released in 1961.

Orbison was the first " legend " to appear on the weekly series, which, at the time, featured local Texas performers.

The first exception, " Ooby Dooby ", was a hit for Orbison on Sun Records in 1956.

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.