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	Roy Orbison
		By the early 50's he was performing professionally under the guidance of Norman Petty (later Buddy Holly's manager), though his break came when Johnny Cash, then signed to Sun, put him in touch with that label.
		Orbison sent a tape of "Ooby Dooby" ("because that was the kind of material that Sun was releasing at the time") and got himself a deal.
		In December 1988 at the age of 52, Roy Orbison died suddenly from a heart attack at Hendersonville Hospital in Hendersonville Tennessee, after complaining of chest pains at the home of his mother....
	home.comcast.net /~gecadero/orbison.htm (107 words)

	Roy Orbison biography - 8notes.com
		Orbison is most remembered for his ballads of lost love, and within the music community, he is revered for his song writing abilities.
		Master record producer and Orbison fan Don Was, commenting on Orbison's writing skills, said: 'he defied the rules of modern composition.' Songwriter Bernie Taupin (composer of all lyrics for Elton John) and others, referred to Orbison as far ahead of the times, creating lyrics and music in a manner that broke with all traditions.
		Roy Orbison's vocal range was impressive (he had a three octave range) and his songs were melodically and rhythmically advanced and lyrically sophisticated.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/orbison.asp (1856 words)

	Roy Orbison - Biography - AOL Music
		After a brief, unsuccessful stint with RCA, Orbison finally found his voice with Monument Records, scoring a number-two hit in 1960 with "Only the Lonely." This established the Roy Orbison persona for good: a brooding rockaballad of failed love with a sweet, haunting melody, enhanced by his Caruso-like vocal trills at the song's emotional climax.
		Roy, after all, was still writing most of his material, and his early MGM records were produced in a style that closely approximated the Monument era.
		By the time it reached the charts in early 1989, however, Orbison was dead, claimed by a heart attack in December 1988.
	music.aol.com /artist/roy-orbison/5072/biography (727 words)

	Songwriters Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Early in 1988, Orbison began recording sessions for his first album of all-new material in ten years.
		On December 6, 1988, Roy Orbison died at the age of 52 and the world lost one of its finest musical talents.
		Orbison's voice and incomparable songwriting were pivotal, as well as unmatched, in the development of rock and roll.
	www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_home_page.asp?exhibitId=173 (645 words)

	Spotlight
		Although the details of that evening are hazy, she remembers Orbison, who had been in an oncoming car with his wife, grabbed the snap-on convertible top from his car and rushed to cover her and protect her from the flames.
		Orbison waited with her until the ambulance arrieved, and she regognized Orbison's wife, who was also there.
		The last time she saw Orbison was in 1957, after she had recovered, when the singer was playing at a dance in Wink.
	www.orbison.de /e_spotlight.htm (1689 words)

	Roy Orbison Biography - hotshotdigital.com
		Though Orbison's leaning was more towards the ballads for which he would become famous, these early releases are worth pursuing; his melodic tenor cuts across the rock beat with strange grace.
		Even at this early stage, however, Roy was looking beyond rockabilly and was convinced that his true calling was as a songwriter.
		In 1987, Roy Orbison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and within twelve months had become a member of the Traveling Wilburys alongside Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, and George Harrison.
	www.hotshotdigital.com /OldRock/RoyOrbisonBio.html (1089 words)

	Roy Orbison
		Orbison acquired the song "Ooby Dooby," from Wade Moore and Dick Penner, who had written it in fifteen minutes on the flat roof of a fraternity house at North Texas State.
		Orbison's group had been playing Ooby Dooby in a modified Texas swing style for nearly a year and it appears the first version was probably recorded near Wink while he was at home during the Christmas holidays.
		Orbison's version of "Ooby Dooby" from the Petty sessions was quickly released on Jean Oliver and Weldon Roger's Je-Wel Records.
	www.history-of-rock.com /roy_orbison.htm (1264 words)

	Roy Orbison St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Although Orbison's stage show would remain essentially the same from the mid-1960s until his death in 1988, he insisted that he didn't tire of repeatedly singing the same songs.
		On the heels of his first hit, Orbison cut a number of sides for Sun during the mid-to-late 1950s, and although his career as a minor rockabilly star was booming, he grew increasingly tired of this music and the energetic stage presence it required.
		And soon the emotions Orbison displayed in his songs became tragically real when his wife Claudette died in a motorcycle accident in 1966, and again when two of his three children died in a fire in 1968.
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	Roy Orbison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Neither is correct, although his poor vision required him to wear thick corrective lenses; he suffered from childhood from a combination of hyperopia, severe astigmatism, anisometropia, and strabismus.
		At the direction of his second wife, Barbara, Orbison was interred on December 15, 1988, in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California.
		Orbison is best remembered for his ballads of lost love, and within the music community he is revered for his song-writing abilities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Orbison (2498 words)

	NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source
		It was a voice sad and sweet; Orbison’s bel canto tenor lent bitter resonance to the often scary words he sang.
		Orbison’s life imitated his art — his first wife died in a motorcycle accident in 1966 and two years later two of his three children died when his house in Nashville burned down.
		Born in Vernon, Texas, in 1936, Orbison was reared in the west Texas boom town of Wink.
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	Roy Orbison!
		By the mid-1960s Orbison was internationally recognized for his ballads of lost love, rhythmically advanced melodies, four-octave vocal range, characteristic dark sunglasses, and sometimes distinctive usage of falsetto, typified in songs such as "Only The Lonely", "In Dreams", "Oh, Pretty Woman", "Crying" and "Running Scared (song)".
		Orbison signed a contract with MGM Records in 1966, and starred in MGM Studios' western-musical motion picture The Fastest Guitar Alive in which he would perform several songs from an album of the same name.
		Orbison had triple heart bypass surgery on January 18, 1978 and enjoyed smoking most of his life.
	www.kipaddotta.com /roy-orbison.html (2314 words)

	PopMatters Music Feature \| The Big O: Beyond the Dark Glasses
		Co-written and sung by Orbison at a time when most artists were utilizing the vast catalogue of lyrics coming out of powerhouses like The Brill Building, the operatic rock ballad was an unprecedented format, especially when the biggest hit on the Billboard chart that year was Percy Faith's instrumental "Theme From 'A Summer Place'".
		The album was ultimately a couple of singles surrounded by filler, but it was also absolutely Roy Orbison's early masterpiece and strong enough to make an unprecedented impact on the music scene of the time.
		Orbison's huge leaning towards original material on this album, while at times inconsistent, overwhelming provides a great glimpse at the Orbison-Melson writing partnership that was in full swing by this time, and would be behind some of the artist's most successful records.
	www.popmatters.com /music/features/060906-orbison.shtml (1763 words)

	Roy Orbison Fan-Site
		Roy Orbison was a feelingful, sensitive man, who communicated what was in his heart better than anybody.
		Orbison's most memorable performances were lovelorn melodramas, such as "Crying" and "It's Over", in which he emoted in a brooding, tremulous voice.
		Orbison could convincingly deliver harder-rocking material like "Candy Man" and "Mean Woman Blues", but it was the ravishing despair of his laments that cemented his status as a rock and roll original.
	www.orbison.de /e_fanseite.htm (2080 words)

	Roy Orbison
		Master record producer and Orbison fan Don Was, commenting on Orbison's writing skills, said: "he defied the rules of modern composition." Songwriter Bernie Taupin (composer of many lyrics for Elton John) and others, referred to Orbison as far ahead of the times, creating lyrics and music in a manner that broke with all traditions.
		Several years after having had bypass surgury, Orbison suffered a massive heart attack at age 52 and died while visiting at his mother's home in Hendersonville a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee on December 6, 1988 before his last album ''Mystery Girl'' could be released.
		At the direction of his second wife, Roy Orbison was interred December 15th, 1988 in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California even though his two sons and their mother, Claudette, who predeceased him, had been laid to rest at his request in the Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.
	www.artistopia.com /roy-orbison (1980 words)

	Roy Orbison Artistfacts
		Elvis Presley and The Beatles both opened shows for Orbison early in their careers.
		All the Wilburys are playing on a train and when it is Roy Orbison's turn to sing, the train goes through a tunnel and is in almost pitch fl ness.
		All you see is a rocking chair with Roy Orbison's guitar in it, and a picture of him on the wall of the train next to Tom Petty.
	www.artistfacts.com /detail.php?id=87 (253 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Roy Orbison, rock 'n' roll singer and songwriter, was born to Orbie Lee and Nadine Orbison on April, 23, 1936, in Vernon, Texas.
		Orbison dedicated himself to music as a young man, performing at school and on the radio.
		In 1988, the year of his death, Orbison's renewed popularity was confirmed in a critically acclaimed television special featuring his music performed by him and his musical heirs.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/OO/for11.html (790 words)

	Pretty Woman
		Roy Orbison, one of rock's truly legendary figures, is tied not to any one decade but virtually to the entire lifespan of rock and roll.
		Then, years later in the early 1990s, Orbison's hit was revitalized when it was used as the theme song for the blockbuster film, Pretty Woman.
		From his earliest concert performances to the climatic resurgence shortly before his death, this DVD takes you on a journey of the early days of Rock & Roll to the ultimate pinnacle of success and legendary mystique of one of the most influential performers, artists and songwriters of our time.
	www.tnt.tv /title/?oid=19475-4848 (286 words)

	RAB Hall of Fame: Roy Orbison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The first show deals with Roy Orbison's early years as his life unfolds in West Texas and he reaches the decisions that lead him into a lifelong commitment to music.
		His friendships with Pat Boone, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, his early attempts at recording, his association with Sun Records, his development as a songwriter, his life on the road and the breakthrough recordings that led to a phenomenal string of million selling records, are all recounted here in story and song.
		His spellbinding performances as Roy Orbison throughout England during the spring of 1995 were the talk of the theatre circuit.
	www.rockabillyhall.com /RoyOrbison.html (1969 words)

	The Teen Kings: Lost and Found: The Unreleased 1956 Recordings - PopMatters Music Review
		Orbison sounds just fine throughout, but there's no overwhelming evidence of the great things to come from him.
		Just as he did on his first few Sun recordings, including "Ooby Dooby", which is included here, Orbison pushes his voice into a cool rocker mode; while he proves competent as a rockabilly hepcat, his voice is much better suited to the melodramatic, melancholy style for which he is famous.
		Some of their stories are notable, such as Jack Kennelly's reminiscence about making his debut as a bass player during a show with Chuck Berry, the band members' admission to being successfully hypnotized by Johnny Horton, and their recollection of being paid 75 cents and a pack of spearmint gum for a gig.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/t/teenkings-lost.shtml (563 words)

	roy01
		In the process, he established rock and roll archetypes of the underdog and the hopelessly romantic loser.
		These were not only amplified by peers such as Del Shannon and Gene Pitney, but also influenced future generations of roots rockers such as Bruce Springsteen and Chris Isaak, as well as current country stars the Mavericks.
		Their successful album set the stage for Orbison's best album in over 20 years, Mystery Girl, which emulated the sound of his classic 1960s work without sounding hackneyed.
	www.mollyann.com /roy01.htm (692 words)

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		The pairing of Roy Orbison with Sonny James isn't because the two performed together -- and the consumer is nowhere led to believe this is so -- but because the sessions featured here showcased both artists in transition and between hits.
		It was the first compilation to include both Orbison's early successes on Sun Records along with his early-'60s hits for Monument Records and, thus, was as definitive as most casual fans needed it to be.
		Tracing Roy Orbison's career from its beginnings at Sun through his big hits at Monument to his largely forgotten late-'60s recordings for MGM, the four-disc set is an exhaustive, definitive history of Orbison's peak years.
	www.mp3.com /albums/10520/similar.html (539 words)

	DVD Review - Roy Orbison: Black & White Night
		Orbison decided to record it himself, and the result was a single that raced up the charts (on both sides of the Atlantic) to become a classic - only the first of many from the artist.
		Orbison's lilting voice and haunting melodies have influenced a great many of today's most talented musicians, and you'll find many of them performing on this disc, in honor of him.
		Note that this disc also includes a "concert scrapbook" of behind-the-scenes photos (rehearsals, and so forth), biographies of all the major musicians, a key note from Roy Kelton Orbison, Jr., very stylish animated menu screens, and the ability to access each of the songs in the program individually.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews/royorbisonbwn.html (894 words)

	Amazon.com: Orbison: Music: Roy Orbison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I'm sure the price will keep all but the most ardent Orbison fans away from this release, and that's probably as it should be.
		I'm an Orbison fan, so I decided to make the considerable investment to have this, and I'm not disappointed that I did so.
		He didn't die in 1965, and there is a considerable amount of worthy material that he release in the last 23 years of his life.
	www.amazon.com /Orbison-Roy/dp/B00005B55L (766 words)

	EMD Artist Representation - Entertainment ~ The Roy Orbison Story
		Death is always untimely, but rarely more so than in the case of Roy Orbison, who succumbed to a heart attack in 1988 as his career was moving into high gear for the first time since his glory days in the '60s.
		Born in Vernon, Texas, on April 23 of 1936, he was one of the original Sun Records rockabilly artists and went on to become one of the most distinctive singers of the rock and roll era.
		Throughout the commentary, which is delivered live, the music of Roy Orbison is sung by one of North America's premier Orbison impersonators, Bernie Jessome, and is supported by a fully live backup band.
	www.emd.ca /artists/royorbison.html (2001 words)

	Biography for Roy Orbison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When Orbison was first in the UK he toured with The Beatles.
		In the early 1980s Don McLean's recording of "Crying" charted all over the world, reaching Number 1 in the UK.
		A duet between Orbison and Emmylou Harris took him to the country music Top 10 and crossed over into the pop charts.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0649413/bio (751 words)

	Blogcritics.org: CD Review: Essential Roy Orbison
		For nearly 30 years, Orbison was the quintessential spokesman for the broken-hearted, with his trademark sunglasses hiding his eyes so all you would focus on was the voice.
		Orbison was often overwrought, but he never felt fake.
		Orbison's cover of his classic "I Drove All Night" pulses with a gorgeous angst, while his cover of Elvis Costello's "The Comedians" is surprisingly effective.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2006/03/27/054325.php (1402 words)

	Roy Orbison - Black & White Night @ Soundbug
		Orbison's vocal range circa 1987 is nearly a match for his 1960s prime, when he was rock's greatest balladeer.
		This 2000 remastered reissue adds only one track to the original 1989 concert LP ("Claudette"); the program leans almost entirely on Orbison's early hits, adding Costello's "The Comedians," a highlight from his then-new (and winning) comeback effort, Mystery Girl.
		Meanwhile, music director T Bone Burnett adorns a crack core group (built around Elvis Presley's old combo) with guest stars who know their roles--and are only too happy to enjoy their close proximity to a legendary performer in what would prove to be his twilight.
	www.soundbug.com /asin/B00003TL18 (439 words)

	Roy Orbison Discography & Biography, Roy Orbison Albums & CDs
		Born in 1936, Roy Orbison was one of the greatest vocalists and songwriters of rock.
		Orbison had a remarkable amount of hits in both the UK and US through 1964.
		Orbison joined George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne in the Traveling Wilburys and they released a smash album.
	www.prex.com /biography/Roy-Orbison-discography.htm (1287 words)

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