Roy Orbison sing, making the voice ring, and I just kept doing it. And I think that somewhere between the time of "Ooby Dooby" and "Only the Lonely", it kind of turned into a good voice." Its success transformed Orbison into an overnight star and he appeared on Dick Clark's "Saturday Night Beechnut Show" out of New York City. When Presley heard "Only the Lonely" for the first time, he bought a box of copies to pass to his friends. Melson and Orbison followed it with the more complex "Blue Angel", which peaked at number nine in the US and number 11
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