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Born Roy Kelton Orbison 4/23/36 at 3:50 p.m. in Vernon, TX.
Orbison's trademark sunglasses were a fashion statement arising from an accident early in his career. Due to go onstage in a few minutes, Orbison left his regular glasses in an airplane. Unable to see without corrective lenses, the only other pair of glasses he had available were darkly tinted prescription sunglasses. "I had to see to get onstage," so he wore the glasses throughout his tour with the Beatles, and he carried on with it for the rest of his professional career. "I'll just do this and look cool."
4-1-54: Roy sees Elvis perform at Dallas Sportatorium.
3-27-56: Roy records “Ooby Dooby”, “Go Go Go” and “Trying To Get To You” at Sun Records in Memphis, TN.
5-1-56: Acting on Johnny Cash's advice, Roy sent a copy of the song - Ooby Dooby - to Sun Records' founder Sam Phillips. Phillips liked what he heard, Roy drove to Memphis, and by June 1956 Sun had released its first Roy Orbison hit single.
8-1-57: Roy and Claudette marry.
7-1-58: Roy left Sun in 1957 and signed to music publishers Acuff-Rose, convinced his true calling was as a songwriter.
Roy's star was soon to be in the ascendant following a conversation between his manager Wesley Rose and a former Mercury promotion man, Fred Foster. Foster had heard a record by Warren Smith on Sun - Rock and Roll Ruby.
"Fred thought I'd recorded that and so he signed me, thinking I was someone else!" said Roy.
7-23-60: Roy appears on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. Show airs at 7:30 p.m.
7-25-60: Roy's song-writing collaboration with Texan Joe Melson included the breakthrough record, Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel); a pure gold fusion of R&B and country which narrowly missed out on hitting number one in America.
In Britain, however, it didn't just top the charts but remained in the Top 40 for nearly 6 months. Only The Lonely is, of course, the song regarded by many as the starting point of Roy's classic ballad sound.
Album “Lonely and Blue” released in 1961 on Monument SM 14002
1.Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel)
2.Bye-Bye Love
3.Cry
4.Blue Avenue
5.I Can't Stop Loving You
6.Come Back To Me (My Love)
7.Blue Angel
8.Raindrops
9.(I'd Be) A Legend In My Time
10. I'm Hurtin'
11. Twenty-Two Days
12. I'll Say It's My Fault
Album “Crying” released in 1962 on Monument SM 14007
1.Crying
2.The Great Pretender
3.Love Hurts
4.She Wears My Ring
5.Wedding Day
6.Summersong
7.Dance
8.Lana
9.Loneliness
10. Let's Make A Memory
11. Nite Life
12. Running Scared
6-1-62: Roy's first public performance in the UK at the Mayfair's Wesbury Hotel. Fan Club members and journalists attend.
Saturday, May 18, 1963 Roy starts a 3 week tour in England with The Beatles. This became the famous Roy Orbison/Beatles Tour.
Album “In Dreams” released in July 1963 on Monument SLP 18003
1.In Dreams
2.Lonely Wine
3.Shahdaroba
4.No One Will Ever Know
5.Sunset
6.House Without Windows
7.Dream
8.Blue Bayou
9.(They Call You) Gigolette
10. All I Have To Do Is Dream
11. Beautiful Dreamer
12. My Prayer
1-31-64: Roy tours Australia with The Beach Boys
10-11-64: Roy appears on The Ed Sullivan Show from New York. Show airs at 8 PM.
1-22-65 thru 2-13-65: Australia and Far East tour with The Rolling Stones
4-16-66: Roy headlines a sell-out tour in UK with Walker Brothers.
6-5-66: Appears on American Bandstand singing “Oh Pretty Woman” and “Twinkle Toes”.
6-6-66: Motorcycle accident in Highway between Hendersonville and Gallatin, TN, claims life of Claudette.
9-7-66: Roy reports to Culver City, California to begin shooting The Fastest Guitar Alive.
9-15-68: Fire at Roy’s house in Hendersonville while Roy is on tour in England. Roy DeWayne and Anthony King (two of Roy's sons)die.
3-25-69: Roy marries Barbara Anne Marie Wilhonnen Jacobs in Nashville
9-1-69: Roy is added to the Walk Of Stars at the Country Music Hall Of Fame in Nashville.
9-1-72: 4-month World Tour (September to December) makes it to the Guinness Book of Records. Tour includes: Holland, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, Manilla, and it ends at the Madison Square Garden in New York.
4-14-73: Roy plays the LA Forum in Los Angeles, CA before 18,000 people.
12-4-76: Roy visits an Elvis Presley Show at the Las Vegas Hilton and is introduced to the audience.
1-18-78: Roy undergoes open-heart surgery at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville
3-1-80: Eight consecutive arena dates opening for The Eagles in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
12-1-80: Roy receives BMI Award for "Blue Bayou" for more than 1.000.000 radio and TV airplay.
2-25-81: Roy wins Grammy for Best Country Performance by Duo or Group with Vocal for "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again" with Emmylou Harris.
12-1-81: BMI gives him "Certificate of Achievement" for That Lovin' You Feelin' Again and Crying.
Album “Class Of 55” with Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins is released in 1985 on America/Smash AR LP100
1.Birth Of Rock And Roll
2.Sixteen Candles
3.Class Of '55
4.Waymore's Blues
5.We Remember The King
6.Coming Home
7.Rock And Roll (Fais-Do-Do)
8.Keep My Motor Running
9.I Will Rock And Roll With You
10. Big Train (From Memphis)
1-1-86: Roy starts re-recording his greatest hits in Sherman Oaks, California.
2-1-86: Grammy for Best Spoken Word or non musical recording for Interviews from Class Of 55.
1-21-87: At the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Ceremony at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1987, Roy takes his place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"In 1975, when I went in to the studio to make Born To Run, I wanted to make a record with words like Bob Dylan that sounded like Phil Spector. But, most of all, I wanted to sing like Roy Orbison." -Bruce Springsteen, acknowledging Roy at the Ceremony
5-22-87: Roy tapes Saturday Night Live with Dennis Hopper in New York.
10-1-87: Induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame
2-1-88: Wins Grammy for Best Country vocal collaboration for “Crying” with k.d. Lang.
12/4/88: Roy's final concert at The Front Row Theater, Highland Heights, OH.
12-6-88: While spending time with friends and family, Roy suffers a massive heart attack and is pronounced dead at 11:54 PM.
1-18-89: Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Ceremony is dedicated to Roy. Bruce Springsteen sings “Crying”.
2-1-89: Wins Grammy for Best Rock Performance by duo or group with vocal for Traveling Wilburys Volume 1.
Sunday, April 23, 1989 - Roy Orbison Day is declared in Texas.
2-1-90: Wins Grammy for Best Pop Male vocal performance with “Oh Pretty Woman” from the Black and White Night Live.
2-1-98: Grammy's Award Lifetime Achievement Award to Roy Orbison
Singles Release Date Title (Label)
Mar 19, 1956 Trying To Get To You/Ooby Dooby (Je-Wel 101)
May 1, 1956 Ooby Dooby/Go Go Go (Sun 242)
Sep 24, 1956 Rock House/You're My Baby (Sun 251)
Mar 1957 Sweet And Easy To Love/Devil Doll (Sun 265)
Dec 1957 Chicken Hearted/I Like Love (Sun 284)
Sep 1958 Seems To Me/Sweet And Innocent (RCA 7-7381)
Dec 1958 Almost 18/Jolie (RCA 47-7447)
Sep 1959 Paper Boy/With The Bug (Monument 409)
Nov 1959 Uptown/Pretty One (Monument 412)
May 1960 Only The Loney/Here Comes That Song Again (Monument 421)
Aug 1960 Blue Angel/Today's Teardrops (Monument 425)
Dec 1960 I'm Hurtin'/I Can't Stop Loving You (Monument 433)
Dec 1960 Sweet And Easy To Love/Devil Doll (Sun 353)
Mar 1961 Running Scared/Love Hurts (Monument 438)
Jul 1961 Crying/Candy Man (Monument 447)
Jan 1962 Dream Baby/The Actress (Monument 456)
Jun 1962 The Crowd/Mama (Monument 461)
Sep 1962 Working For The Man/Leah (Monument 467)
1962 Paper Boy/Here Comes That Song Again (Monument CSx-1 (special issue))
Feb 1963 In Dreams/Shahadaroba (Monument 806)
May 1963 Falling/Distant Drums (Monument 815)
Aug 1963 Blue Bayou/Mean Woman Blues (Monument 824)
Nov 1963 Pretty Paper/Beautiful Dreamer (Monument 803)
1964 Borne On The Wind/What’d I say (UK) (Monument/London)
Apr 1964 It's Over/Indian Wedding (Monument 837)
Aug 1964 Pretty Woman/Yo Te Amo Maria (Monument 851)
1964 Pretty Paper/Summersong (UK) (Monument/London)
Feb 1965 Goodnight/Only With You (Monument 873)
Jul 1965 (Say) You're My Girl/Sleepy Hollow (Monument 891)
Aug 1965 Ride Away/Wondering (MGM 13386)
Oct 1965 Crawling Back/If You Can't Say Something Nice (MGM 13410)
1965 Ride Away/Crawling Back (MGM K 13756)
Jan 1966 Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart/Wait (MGM 13446)
Jan 1966 Distant Drums/Let the Goodtimes Roll (Monument 906)
Mar 1966 Twinkle Toes/Where Is Tomorrow (MGM 13498)
Jun 1966 Lana/Our Summersong (Monument 939)
Aug 1966 Too Soon To Know/You'll Never Be Sixteen Again (MGM 13549)
1966 Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart/Too Soon To Know (MGM K 13757)
1966 There Won’t Be Many Coming Home/Going back to Gloria (UK) (MGM/London)
1966 Communication Breakdown/Twinkle Toes (MGM K 13758)
Feb 1967 So Good/Memories (MGM 13685)
Apr 1967 MGM Celebrity Scene Promo Set (MGM CS 9-5 (DJ))
Jun 1967 Cry Softly Lonely One/Pistolero (MGM 13764)
Oct 1967 She/Here Comes The Rain Baby (MGM 13817)
Jan 1968 Born To be Loved By You/Shy Away (MGM 13889)
Jul 1968 Walk On/Flowers (MGM 13950)
Sep 1968 Heartache/Sugar Man (MGM 13991)
Apr 1969 My Friend/Southbound Jericho Parkway (MGM 14039)
1969 Break my mind/How do you start over (UK) MGM/London)
Aug 1969 Penny Arcade/Tennessee Owns My Soul (MGM 14079)
Jan 1970 She Cheats On Me/How Do You Start Over Again (MGM 14105)
Apr 1970 So Young/If I Had A Woman Like You (MGM 14121)
Aug 1971 (Love Me Like You Did It) Last Night/Close Again (MGM 14293)
Feb 1972 God Love You/Changes (MGM 14358)
Apr 1972 Remember The Good/Harlem Woman (MGM 14413)
May 1972 Remember The Good/If Only For A While (MGM 14413)
Sep 1972 Memphis, Tennessee/I Can Read Between The Lines (MGM 14441)
Feb 1973 Blue Rain/Sooner Or Later (MGM 14552)
Sep 1973 I Wanna Live/You Lay So Easy On My Mind (MGM 14626)
Aug 1974 Sweet Mama Blue/Heartache (Mercury 73610)
Feb 1975 Hung Up On You/Spanish Nights (Mercury 73652)
Oct 1975 It's Lonely/Still (Mercury 73705)
May 1976 Belinda/No Chain At All (Monument 2588690)
Sep 1976 I'm A Southern Man/Born To Love Me (Monument 45 200)
Apr 1977 Drifting Away/Under Suspicion (Monument 45 215)
Jun 1979 Easy Way Out/Tears (Asylum F46048)
Sep 1979 Poor Baby/Lay It Down (Asylum E 46541)
Jul 1980 That Lovin'You Feelin' Again (with Emmylou Harris)/Craig Hundley Track
(Warner WBS49262)
1985 Wild Hearts (various b sides)-Inst version/Ooby Dooby/Crying (ZTT/Island)
1985 Birth Of Rock and Roll/Rock and Roll (Fais do do) (America/Smash 884 760 7)
Aug 1987 In Dreams/Leah (Virgin 7 99434)
Nov 1987 Crying (with kd lang)/Falling (Virgin 7 99388)
Oct 1988 Handle With Care/Margarita (Traveling Wilburys-PS) (WB 7 27732 A)
Jan 1989 You Got It/The Only One (Virgin 7 99245)
Jan 1989 End of the Line/Congratulations (Traveling Wilburys) (WB 7 27637)
Apr 1989 You Got It/Crying (Virgin 7 99245)
1989 California Blue/In Dreams (Virgin 7 99202)
Sep 1989 She's A Mystery To Me/Dream Baby (live) (Virgin 7 99227)
Jan 1990 Oh Pretty Woman (live)/Claudette (Virgin 7 99159)
1992 I Drove All Night (MCADS 54419)
1992 Crying/Oh Pretty Woman/Falling/She's A Mystery To Me (VUSCD 63)
1992 Heartbreak Radio (promo) (DPRO 12731)
1992 Heartbreak Radio/Blue Angel/Claudette/Lana (VUS 7243)
1992 Heartbreak Radio/In Dreams/You Got It/Dream Baby (VUS 7243)
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