• "In Dreams" is a song composed and sung by singer Roy Orbison. An operatic rock ballad of lost love, it was released as a single on Monument Records in...
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  • "Go Go Go (Down the Line)" (often credited as "Down the Line") is a song by Roy Orbison, released in 1956. According to the authorised biography of Roy...
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  • 1951 "Go Go Go" (Roy Orbison song), 1956 "Go Go Go" (Chuck Berry song), 1961, based on the Johnny B. Goode song character "Go, Go, Go! (This Is It)", by...
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  • Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night is a 1988 Cinemax television special originally broadcast on January 3, 1988, presenting a performance...
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  • The Orbison Way is the eighth album recorded by Roy Orbison, and his second for MGM Records, released in January 1966. Two singles were taken from the...
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    Roy Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter who found the most success in the early rock and roll era from 1956...
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    Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice,...
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  • singer named P. J. Orbison (an amalgam of the names of P. J. Proby and Roy Orbison). Although not mentioned by name, Ready, Steady, Go! was parodied in...
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  • "Oh, Pretty Woman", or simply "Pretty Woman", is a song recorded by Roy Orbison and written by Orbison and Bill Dees. It was released as a single in August...
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  • A Black & White Night Live (category Roy Orbison albums)
    1988. According to the authorised Roy Orbison biography, the album was released in October 1989 and included the song "Blue Bayou" which because of time...
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  • Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson is a tribute album recorded by Roy Orbison for MGM Records. Released in January 1967, it is a collection of songs written...
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  • captures a live performance by singer Roy Orbison on August 5, 1982, from the PBS television show Austin City Limits. Orbison was the first "legend" to appear...
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  • pitched the song to Roy Orbison, who turned it into a hit. Nelson later recorded his own version of the song in November 1964. The song tells the story...
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  • Angeles in 1988, consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. They were a roots rock band and described as "perhaps...
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  • "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around (Interlude)" is a song by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake from his second studio album, FutureSex/LoveSounds...
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  • Not Alone Any More (category Songs written by Roy Orbison)
    is a song by the British–American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys from their 1988 album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. It was sung by Roy Orbison and serves...
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    "reminiscent of 60s Nashville and Los Angeles as heard in artists like Roy Orbison, The Byrds, Duane Eddy, and the Everly Brothers." The band's third studio...
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  • The Classic Roy Orbison is the ninth studio album recorded by Roy Orbison, and his third for MGM Records, released in July 1966. The single taken from...
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  • Will Jennings (category Best Original Song Academy Award–winning songwriters)
    Sample, Rodney Crowell, Mariah Carey, Jimmy Buffett, Barry Manilow, and Roy Orbison. In Nashville he worked with other composers, and his first big hit came...
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  • Crying (album) (category Roy Orbison albums)
    album by Roy Orbison, released in January 1962. It was his second album on the Monument Record label. The album name comes from the 1961 hit song of the...
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    Paradise", stating: "Phil Collins might write a song about the homeless, but if he doesn't have the action to go with it he's just exploiting that for a subject...
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    Melbourne, singing covers of classical rock-and-roll songs from Elvis Presley, Billy Fury, Roy Orbison, among others. According to Reay, he thrived on market...
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  • Tryin' to Get to You (category Roy Orbison songs)
    Npr.org. Retrieved 30 April 2021. Orbison, Roy Jr. (2017). The authorized Roy Orbison. Orbison, Wesley,, Orbison, Alex,, Slate, Jeff (Second ed.). New...
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  • In Dreams (musical) (category Roy Orbison)
    a book by David West Read and featuring the songs of Roy Orbison. The musical uses the songs of Orbison to tell a modern-day story about Kenna, the former...
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  • Jeff Lynne Song Database. Bob Dylan – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, Roy Orbison – acoustic guitar, backing vocals George Harrison – acoustic guitar,...
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    metal music, the producers and Summer sought to go for a rockier edge on some of the songs while other songs leaned into Summer's R&B roots. Harold Faltermeyer...
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    "Into the Great Wide Open". The following year he produced two songs on Roy Orbison's posthumous King of Hearts, including the single "I Drove All Night"...
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  • Chan Romero's "Hippy Hippy Shake". The theme song for the show was a rock arrangement of the song "Pop Goes the Weasel" performed by the Beatles. Many of...
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  • the guitar, and came up with a guitar riff he described as "kinda Roy Orbison, kinda Mexican". He demonstrated it for Henley and said: "Maybe we should...
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  • and his friends. Songs based on the figure of the Sandman include the 1950s classic "Mr. Sandman" by The Chordettes, Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" in which...
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