Roy: A Tribute to Roy Orbison or more Roy Orbison covers were planned for 2008's "", but instead led to recording this album. Three music videos were released, one for "Only the Lonely", one for "Oh, Pretty Woman", and one for "Blue Bayou" (featuring The McClymonts). Roy: A Tribute to Roy Orbison Roy: A Tribute to Roy Orbison is the fourth studio album by Damien Leith. It was released by Sony BMG in Australia on 15 April 2011 to coincide with Roy Orbison's 75th birthday. In 2006, while in the top 10 of "Australian Idol", Damien performed Orbison's 1961 hit "Crying" to a standing ovation. Barbara
Roy Orbison royalties, but Orbison stayed in Memphis and asked his 16-year-old girlfriend, Claudette Frady, to join him there. They stayed in Phillips's home, sleeping in separate rooms. In the studio, Orbison concentrated on the mechanics of recording. Phillips remembered being much more impressed with Orbison's mastery of the guitar than with his voice. A ballad Orbison wrote, "The Clown", met with a lukewarm response; after hearing it, Sun Records producer Jack Clement told Orbison that he would never make it as a ballad singer. Orbison had some success at Sun Records, however, and was introduced to Elvis Presley's social circle, once