Roy Orbison mix from the top down rather than from the bottom up, beginning with close-miked backing vocals in the foreground, and ending with the rhythm section soft in the background. This combination became Orbison's trademark sound. "Only the Lonely" shot to number two on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and hit number one in the UK and Australia. According to Orbison, the subsequent songs he wrote with Melson during this period were constructed with his voice in mind, specifically to showcase its range and power. He told "Rolling Stone" in 1988, "I liked the sound of [my voice]. I liked making it
Roy Orbison Jr. vocals. The process he uses was the subject of an episode of the television series "Strange Inheritance" on Fox Business Network, and the track was included on the 25th anniversary re-issue of the album "Mystery Girl". He was also an executive producer of the album "One of the Lonely Ones" in 2015. Orbison is currently the co-president of Still Working Music, which has a catalog of songs from artists including Taylor Swift, Lost Frequencies, and Joe Walsh. Beginning in 2016, Orbison served as a co-produced for the biopic "The Big O: Roy Orbison", written by Ray Gideon and Bruce Evans.