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Rolling Stone placed Orbison at number 37 on their list of The Greatest Artists of All Time, and number 13 on their list of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
In 2002, Billboard magazine listed Orbison at number 74 in the Top 600 recording artists.
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.
When they were offered $ 400 to play at a dance, Orbison realized that he could make a living in music.
While living in Odessa, Orbison drove to Dallas to be shocked at the on-stage antics of Elvis Presley, who was only a year older and a rising star in the music scene.
Johnny Cash toured the area in 1955, playing on the same local radio show as the Teen Kings and suggested that Orbison approach Sam Phillips at Sun Records, home of rockabilly stars including Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Cash.
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.
However, frustrated at Sun, Orbison gradually stopped recording, toured music circuits around Texas to make a living, and for seven months in 1958 quit performing completely.
For a brief period in the late 1950s Orbison made his living at Acuff-Rose, a songwriting firm concentrating mainly on country music.
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.
" Uptown " earned a modest spot at number 72 on the Billboard Top 100 and Orbison set his goal on negotiating a contract with an upscale nightclub somewhere.
Melson and Orbison followed it with the more complex " Blue Angel " which peaked at U. S. number 9 / UK number 11, a self-performed version of " Claudette ", and " I'm Hurtin '", which rose to number 27 but failed to chart in the UK.
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.
While on tour again in the UK in 1965, Orbison broke his foot falling off a motorcycle in front of thousands of screaming fans at a race track, and performed his show that evening in a cast.
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 ...
A few months later, Orbison and Springsteen paired again to film a concert at the Cocoanut Grove Ballroom in Los Angeles.
Lang later recounted how humbled Orbison had been by the show of support from so many talented and busy musicians: " Roy looked at all of us and said, ' If there is anything I can ever do for you, please call on me.
While Orbison determinedly pursued his second chance at stardom, he reacted to his success in constant surprise, confessing " It's very nice to be wanted again, but I still can't quite believe it.
A few days later a manager at a club in Boston was concerned that he looked ill, but Orbison played the show to another standing ovation.
After having dinner at his mother's home in Tennessee, Orbison died of a heart attack at 52.

Orbison and Phillips
In their conversation, Phillips told Orbison curtly, " Johnny Cash doesn't run my record company!
The Teen Kings went to Memphis and although Orbison had grown weary of " Ooby Dooby ", Phillips wanted to cut the record again in a better studio.
They stayed in Phillips ' home, where they slept in separate rooms ; in the studio Orbison concentrated on the mechanics of recording.
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.
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.
** Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins & Sam Phillips for Interviews From the Class of ' 55 Recording Sessions
** Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins & Sam Phillips for Interviews From the Class of ' 55 Recording Sessions
In 1969, Sam Phillips sold the label to Shelby Singleton, and there was no recording-related or label-related activity again in the building until the September 1985 Class of ' 55 recording sessions with Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, produced by Chips Moman.
Phillips used some of the money to further advance the careers of his other artists, by now featuring Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Roy Orbison.
Sun Records owner Sam Phillips had a collection of songs Orbison had recorded at Sun between 1956 and ' 58.
Phillips capitalized on the national recognition Orbison had achieved at Monument through three major hit singles in 1960 and ' 61 that had gone to the top of the Billboard charts.
Most of the songs on Roy Orbison at the Rock House were written by Orbison but the songwriting credits were assigned to Sam Phillips, and are in the traditional rockabilly style the Sun label was known for.

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However, very little of what Orbison recorded met these characteristics.
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.
Some of the musicians who worked with Orbison were confounded by what he asked them to do.
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.

Orbison and band
Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly / country and western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis.
The band ultimately split over disputed writing credits and royalties, but Orbison stayed in Memphis and asked his 16-year-old girlfriend, Claudette Frady, to join him.
Expanding on the concept of a traveling band of raucous musicians, Orbison offered a quote about the group's foundation in honor: " Some people say Daddy was a cad and a bounder.
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 band recorded two albums in 1988 and 1990, though Orbison died before the second was recorded.
* Popular music including " Mr. Sandman " popularized by the Chordettes, " The Japanese Sandman " ( 1920 ) by Raymond B. Egan and Richard A. Whiting, " Sandman " by America ( band ), " In Dreams " by Roy Orbison, " Enter Sandman " by Metallica, and " Mr. Sandman " from the album Tical by Method Man.
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.
Put together by musical director T-Bone Burnett, Orbison was accompanied by a supporting backing band which included many notable musical performers.
During the end credits, several of the band members are shown talking about how Orbison influenced them.
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.
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.
Writing credits are shared by all five band members, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan.
During the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 2006 tour to support Petty's solo release Highway Companion, the band performed the song with Petty singing most of the lead vocals and band member Scott Thurston singing the Roy Orbison part.
Kit Clark continues to perform with his band, Swiss Family Orbison.
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.
" He goes on to insist that Elvis is assisting the band in their rise to stardom, and that they " wanted Roy Orbison, but they said he was dead ".
Born and raised in Texas, Orbison got his start in a rockabilly band in high school.

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