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
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.