Roy Orbison Lyrics
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From the Album
1. Ooby Dooby
2. Go Go Go
3. Rock House
4. Uptown
5. Only The Lonely
6. Blue Angel
7. I'm Hurting
8. Lana
9. Love Hurts
10. Crying
11. Candy Man
12. Dream Baby
13. The Crowd
14. Leah
15. Falling
16. Working for The Man
17. Mean Woman Blues
18. Blue Bayou
19. Pretty Paper
20. Its Over
21. Oh, Pretty Woman
From the Single
If I Had A Woman Like You
From the Single Oh, Pretty Woman
Other Songs A House Without Windows A Love So Beautiful A Mansion On The Hill A New Star A True Love Goodbye Abraham, Martin and John Afraid To Sleep After All After The Love Has Gone All by Myself (All I Can Do Is) Dream You All I Have To Do Is Dream All I Need Is Time Almost Almost Eighteen Amy Anything You Want Barbara Beaujolais Beautiful Dreamer Belinda Best Friend Big As I Can Dream Big Hearted Me Big River Birth Of Rock And Roll Blue Avenue Blue Blue Day Blue Rain Blue Rain (Coming Down) Blue Suede Shoes Blues In My Mind Born to Be Loved By You Born To Love Me Borne On The Wind Break My Mind Breakin Up Is Breakin My Heart Breaking Up Is Breaking My Heart Bridge Over Troubled Water Brown Eyed Handsome Man Bye Bye Love Bye-Bye Love California Blue Candy Manro Can't Forget Cant Wait Careless Heart Casting My Spell On You Changes Cheyenne Chicken Hearted Child Woman, Woman Child Circle City Life Claudette Close Again Cold, Cold Heart Come Back To Me Come Back to Me (My Love) Comedians Coming Home Communication Breakdown Congratulations Crawling Back Crowd Cry Cry Softly Lonely One Crying Time Dance Danny Boy Darkness Daydream (Of You) Defeated Devil Doll Distant Drums Domino Double Date Down the Line Dream dream baby (how long must i dream) Dream You Drift Away Drifting Away Easy Way Out End Of The Line Evergreen Fallingro Fancy Dan Far Far Away Flowers Fools Hall Of Fame Friday Night Gigolette Girl Like Mine Give Myself a Party Go Away Go, Go, Go (Down the Line) Go! Go! Go!- Roy Orbison and Teen Kings God Love You (GoGoGo) Down The Line Going Back To Gloria Good Morning Dear Good Time Party Goodnight Goodnightro Growing Up Half Heaven, Half Heartache Handle With Care Harlem Woman Heading South Heartache Heartbreak Radio Heavy Load Help Me Help Me Rhonda Here Comes That Song Again [Bonus Track] Here Comes the Rain, Baby Hey Good Lookin High School Confidential Hound Dog Man House Without Windows How Are Things in Paradise How Do You Start Over Hung Up On You I Can Read Between The Lines I Cant Help It I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You) I Cant Stop Loving You I Care I Dont Really Want You I Drove All Night I Drove All Nightro I Fought the Law (I Get So) Sentimental I Give Up I Heard You Crying in Your Sleep I Like Love I Never Knew I Recommend Her I Wanna Live I Was a Fool (Id Be) A Legend In My Time If I Didn't Have a Dime (To Play the Jukebox) If Only for Awhile If You Can't Say Something Nice Ill Never Tell Ill Say Its My Fault Im A Southern Man Im Hurtin I'm In A Blue, Blue Mood Im So Lonesome I Could Cry I'm the Man on Susie's Mind In Dreams In My Dreams In The Real World Indian Summer Indian Wedding It Aint No Big Thing It Hurt Me So It Hurts to Be in Love It Takes All Kinds of People It Takes One to Know One It Wasn't Very Long Ago Its Lonely Its Too Late I've Been Loving You Too Long I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) Ive Had My Moments Jackson Jambalaya Jolie Just Another Name for Rock and Roll Just Let Me Make Believe Just One Time Kaw-Liga Land of 1,000 Dances Lavender Lace Lawdy Miss Clawdy Lay It Down Let the Good Times Roll Lets Make A Memory Lewis Boogie Life Fades Away Line of Fire Loneliness Lonely Teenager Lonely Wine Lonesome Number One Looking Through the Eyes of Love Losing You Love In Time Love Is A Cold Wind (Love Me Like You Did It) Last Night (Love Me Like You Did) Last Night Love Star Lovers Who Wander Lovestruck Loving Touch Mama Mansion on the Hill Margarita Maybe Mean Little Mama Medicine Man Memories Memphis, Tennessee Money (That's What I Want) More Move on Down the Line Movin My Friend My Prayer Mystery Girl Never Never Love Again Night Life Nite Life No Chain At All (No) I'll Never Get Over You No One Will Ever Know Not Alone Any More Not Alone Anymore Oh Such A Stranger Old Love Song One More Time Only Alive Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel) Only With You Only You Ooby Dooby- Roy Orbison and Teen Kings Ooh! My Soul Pantomime Paper Boy Party Heart Penny Arcade Pistolero Plain Jane Country (Come to Town) Pledging My Love Poor Baby Precious Pretty One Pretty Woman Problem Child Rainbow Love Raindrops Remember the Good Ride Away Rings of Gold Rip It Up River Rock House- Roy Orbison and Teen Kings Rock Your Little Baby to Sleep Rockhouse Rollin' On Run, Baby, Run Run For The Sun Run the Engines Up High Running Scared San Fernando (Say) Youre My Girl Scarlet Ribbons Seems to Me Shahadaroba Shahdaroba She She Cheats on Me She Wears My Ring Shelter Me Shes A Mystery To Me Shout Shy Away Singing the Blues Sleepy Hollow So Good So Young Something They Cant Take Away Sooner Or Later Southbound Jericho Parkway Spanish Nights St. Louis Blues Still Sugar And Honey Sugar Man Summer Love Summer Song Summersong Sunset Sweet And Easy To Love Sweet and Innocent Sweet Caroline Sweet Dreams Sweet Mama Sweet Mama Blue Take Care of Your Woman Tears Tennessee Owns My Soul That Lovin You Feelin Again That's a No No The Actress The Cause Of It All The Clown The Comedians The Defector The Fastest Guitar Alive The Great Pretender The Loner The Morning After The Only One The Same Street The Three Bells The Wanderer The World You Live In There Wont Be Many Coming Home Therell Be No Teardrops Tonight (They Call You) Gigolette This Is My Land This Is Your Song This Kind Of Love Time Changed Everything Time to Cry Today's Teardrops Too Soon To Know Truly Truly True Try to Remember Tryin To Get To You Trying to Get to You Tutti Frutti Tweeter and The Monkey Man Twenty Two Days Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa Twenty-Two Days Twinkle Toes Two Of A Kind Unchained Melody Under Suspicion Wait Walk On Warm Spot Hot Waymore's Blues Wedding Day Well Take The Night Were Into Something Good What About Me? What Am I Worth What Now My Love Whatd I say When I Stop Dreaming Where Is Tomorrow Whirlwind Why Hurt the One Who Loves You? Wild Hearts Wild Hearts Run Out Of Time Windsurfer With The Bug Wondering Words Workin' for the Man Yes Yesterday's Child Yo Te Amo Yo Te Amo Maria You Cant Say Something Nice You Don't Know Me You Fool You You Got It You Lay So Easy on My Mind You May Feel Me Crying [Bonus Track] You Win Again Youll Never Be Sixteen Again Young Love Your Cheatin Heart Your Cold Cold Heart Youre Gonna Cry Youre My Baby You're the One Zig Zag
From the Single Oh, Pretty Woman
Other Songs A House Without Windows A Love So Beautiful A Mansion On The Hill A New Star A True Love Goodbye Abraham, Martin and John Afraid To Sleep After All After The Love Has Gone All by Myself (All I Can Do Is) Dream You All I Have To Do Is Dream All I Need Is Time Almost Almost Eighteen Amy Anything You Want Barbara Beaujolais Beautiful Dreamer Belinda Best Friend Big As I Can Dream Big Hearted Me Big River Birth Of Rock And Roll Blue Avenue Blue Blue Day Blue Rain Blue Rain (Coming Down) Blue Suede Shoes Blues In My Mind Born to Be Loved By You Born To Love Me Borne On The Wind Break My Mind Breakin Up Is Breakin My Heart Breaking Up Is Breaking My Heart Bridge Over Troubled Water Brown Eyed Handsome Man Bye Bye Love Bye-Bye Love California Blue Candy Manro Can't Forget Cant Wait Careless Heart Casting My Spell On You Changes Cheyenne Chicken Hearted Child Woman, Woman Child Circle City Life Claudette Close Again Cold, Cold Heart Come Back To Me Come Back to Me (My Love) Comedians Coming Home Communication Breakdown Congratulations Crawling Back Crowd Cry Cry Softly Lonely One Crying Time Dance Danny Boy Darkness Daydream (Of You) Defeated Devil Doll Distant Drums Domino Double Date Down the Line Dream dream baby (how long must i dream) Dream You Drift Away Drifting Away Easy Way Out End Of The Line Evergreen Fallingro Fancy Dan Far Far Away Flowers Fools Hall Of Fame Friday Night Gigolette Girl Like Mine Give Myself a Party Go Away Go, Go, Go (Down the Line) Go! Go! Go!- Roy Orbison and Teen Kings God Love You (GoGoGo) Down The Line Going Back To Gloria Good Morning Dear Good Time Party Goodnight Goodnightro Growing Up Half Heaven, Half Heartache Handle With Care Harlem Woman Heading South Heartache Heartbreak Radio Heavy Load Help Me Help Me Rhonda Here Comes That Song Again [Bonus Track] Here Comes the Rain, Baby Hey Good Lookin High School Confidential Hound Dog Man House Without Windows How Are Things in Paradise How Do You Start Over Hung Up On You I Can Read Between The Lines I Cant Help It I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You) I Cant Stop Loving You I Care I Dont Really Want You I Drove All Night I Drove All Nightro I Fought the Law (I Get So) Sentimental I Give Up I Heard You Crying in Your Sleep I Like Love I Never Knew I Recommend Her I Wanna Live I Was a Fool (Id Be) A Legend In My Time If I Didn't Have a Dime (To Play the Jukebox) If Only for Awhile If You Can't Say Something Nice Ill Never Tell Ill Say Its My Fault Im A Southern Man Im Hurtin I'm In A Blue, Blue Mood Im So Lonesome I Could Cry I'm the Man on Susie's Mind In Dreams In My Dreams In The Real World Indian Summer Indian Wedding It Aint No Big Thing It Hurt Me So It Hurts to Be in Love It Takes All Kinds of People It Takes One to Know One It Wasn't Very Long Ago Its Lonely Its Too Late I've Been Loving You Too Long I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) Ive Had My Moments Jackson Jambalaya Jolie Just Another Name for Rock and Roll Just Let Me Make Believe Just One Time Kaw-Liga Land of 1,000 Dances Lavender Lace Lawdy Miss Clawdy Lay It Down Let the Good Times Roll Lets Make A Memory Lewis Boogie Life Fades Away Line of Fire Loneliness Lonely Teenager Lonely Wine Lonesome Number One Looking Through the Eyes of Love Losing You Love In Time Love Is A Cold Wind (Love Me Like You Did It) Last Night (Love Me Like You Did) Last Night Love Star Lovers Who Wander Lovestruck Loving Touch Mama Mansion on the Hill Margarita Maybe Mean Little Mama Medicine Man Memories Memphis, Tennessee Money (That's What I Want) More Move on Down the Line Movin My Friend My Prayer Mystery Girl Never Never Love Again Night Life Nite Life No Chain At All (No) I'll Never Get Over You No One Will Ever Know Not Alone Any More Not Alone Anymore Oh Such A Stranger Old Love Song One More Time Only Alive Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel) Only With You Only You Ooby Dooby- Roy Orbison and Teen Kings Ooh! My Soul Pantomime Paper Boy Party Heart Penny Arcade Pistolero Plain Jane Country (Come to Town) Pledging My Love Poor Baby Precious Pretty One Pretty Woman Problem Child Rainbow Love Raindrops Remember the Good Ride Away Rings of Gold Rip It Up River Rock House- Roy Orbison and Teen Kings Rock Your Little Baby to Sleep Rockhouse Rollin' On Run, Baby, Run Run For The Sun Run the Engines Up High Running Scared San Fernando (Say) Youre My Girl Scarlet Ribbons Seems to Me Shahadaroba Shahdaroba She She Cheats on Me She Wears My Ring Shelter Me Shes A Mystery To Me Shout Shy Away Singing the Blues Sleepy Hollow So Good So Young Something They Cant Take Away Sooner Or Later Southbound Jericho Parkway Spanish Nights St. Louis Blues Still Sugar And Honey Sugar Man Summer Love Summer Song Summersong Sunset Sweet And Easy To Love Sweet and Innocent Sweet Caroline Sweet Dreams Sweet Mama Sweet Mama Blue Take Care of Your Woman Tears Tennessee Owns My Soul That Lovin You Feelin Again That's a No No The Actress The Cause Of It All The Clown The Comedians The Defector The Fastest Guitar Alive The Great Pretender The Loner The Morning After The Only One The Same Street The Three Bells The Wanderer The World You Live In There Wont Be Many Coming Home Therell Be No Teardrops Tonight (They Call You) Gigolette This Is My Land This Is Your Song This Kind Of Love Time Changed Everything Time to Cry Today's Teardrops Too Soon To Know Truly Truly True Try to Remember Tryin To Get To You Trying to Get to You Tutti Frutti Tweeter and The Monkey Man Twenty Two Days Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa Twenty-Two Days Twinkle Toes Two Of A Kind Unchained Melody Under Suspicion Wait Walk On Warm Spot Hot Waymore's Blues Wedding Day Well Take The Night Were Into Something Good What About Me? What Am I Worth What Now My Love Whatd I say When I Stop Dreaming Where Is Tomorrow Whirlwind Why Hurt the One Who Loves You? Wild Hearts Wild Hearts Run Out Of Time Windsurfer With The Bug Wondering Words Workin' for the Man Yes Yesterday's Child Yo Te Amo Yo Te Amo Maria You Cant Say Something Nice You Don't Know Me You Fool You You Got It You Lay So Easy on My Mind You May Feel Me Crying [Bonus Track] You Win Again Youll Never Be Sixteen Again Young Love Your Cheatin Heart Your Cold Cold Heart Youre Gonna Cry Youre My Baby You're the One Zig Zag
Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. Orbison's music is mostly in the rock music genre and his most successful periods were in the early 1960s and the late 1980s. He was nicknamed "The Caruso of Rock" and "The Big O". Many of Orbison's songs conveyed vulnerability at a time when most male rock-and-roll performers projected machismo. He performed with minimal motion and in black clothes, matching his dyed black hair and dark sunglasses.
Born in Texas, Orbison began singing in a country-and-western band as a teenager. He was signed by Sam Phillips of Sun Records in 1956 after Johnny Cash urged him to go to Sun. Elvis was leaving Sun and Phillips was looking to replace him. His first Sun recording, Oobie Doobie was a direct musical sound-a-like of Elvis's early Sun recordings. He had some success at Sun but enjoyed his greatest success with Monument Records. From 1960 to 1966, 22 of Orbison's singles reached the Billboard Top 40. He wrote or co-wrote almost all of his own Top 10 hits, including "Only the Lonely" (1960), "Running Scared" (1961), "Crying" (1961), "In Dreams" (1963), and "Oh, Pretty Woman" (1964).
After the mid-1960s Orbison suffered a number of personal tragedies, and his career faltered. He experienced a resurgence in popularity in the 1980s, following the success of several cover versions of his songs. In 1988, he co-founded the Traveling Wilburys supergroup with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne. Orbison died of a heart attack that December at age 52. One month later, his song "You Got It" (1989) was released as a solo single, becoming his first hit to reach both the US and UK Top 10 in nearly 25 years.
Orbison's honors include inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989, and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2014. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and five other Grammy Awards. Rolling Stone placed him at number 37 on its list of the "Greatest Artists of All Time" and number 13 on its list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In 2002, Billboard magazine listed him at number 74 on its list of the Top 600 recording artists.
Born: April 23, 1936 in Vernon, Texas, U.S. Born in Texas, Orbison began singing in a country-and-western band as a teenager. He was signed by Sam Phillips of Sun Records in 1956 after Johnny Cash urged him to go to Sun. Elvis was leaving Sun and Phillips was looking to replace him. His first Sun recording, Oobie Doobie was a direct musical sound-a-like of Elvis's early Sun recordings. He had some success at Sun but enjoyed his greatest success with Monument Records. From 1960 to 1966, 22 of Orbison's singles reached the Billboard Top 40. He wrote or co-wrote almost all of his own Top 10 hits, including "Only the Lonely" (1960), "Running Scared" (1961), "Crying" (1961), "In Dreams" (1963), and "Oh, Pretty Woman" (1964).
After the mid-1960s Orbison suffered a number of personal tragedies, and his career faltered. He experienced a resurgence in popularity in the 1980s, following the success of several cover versions of his songs. In 1988, he co-founded the Traveling Wilburys supergroup with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne. Orbison died of a heart attack that December at age 52. One month later, his song "You Got It" (1989) was released as a solo single, becoming his first hit to reach both the US and UK Top 10 in nearly 25 years.
Orbison's honors include inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989, and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2014. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and five other Grammy Awards. Rolling Stone placed him at number 37 on its list of the "Greatest Artists of All Time" and number 13 on its list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In 2002, Billboard magazine listed him at number 74 on its list of the Top 600 recording artists.
Died: December 6, 1988 (at age of 52) in Hendersonville, Tennessee, U.S.
Spouse(s): Claudette Frady (m. 1957; div. 1964)
(m. 1965; died 1966)
Barbara Jakobs (m. 1969)
Children: 5, including Alex
Genre(s): Rock, pop, country, rock and roll, rockabilly
Instrument(s): Vocals, guitar
Occupation(s): Singer-songwriter, musician
Associated Acts: Traveling Wilburys