Roy Orbison's Sun Recordings Roy Orbison. Orbison, still in Texas began writing with Joe Melson, who led a group in Midland called the Cavaliers. Together they wrote the hit "Uptown," which sold better than any single since "Ooby Dooby". Looking for a follow-up, Melson showed Orbison a piece of a song he had been working on called "Only the Lonely". This song was the "first song that truly probed the frightening potential of Orbison's voice." In the early sixties Orbison reached his first peak period from 1961-1964. Despite the lack of commercial success Orbison looked back at his time at Sun Records as an
The Classic Roy Orbison Hawkestone Park in Birmingham when he fell off the bike and injured his foot. He performed a concert that week in a cast. Three weeks after the album was completed on June 6, 1966, Orbison and his wife Claudette rode on their motorbikes to a drag race in Bristol, Tennessee. They rode back the same night turning off Interstate 40 onto Highway 109 toward Gallatin for a shortcut back to Hendersonville. Roy led the way with Claudette behind him. Roy then heard sirens of emergency vehicles before he realised that Claudette wasn’t with him. He turned around to find out