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Biography

Vernon TX, United States (1954 – 1988)

Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988), nicknamed “The Big O”, was an influential American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll, whose recording career spanned more than four decades. By the mid-1960s Orbison was internationally recognized for his ballads of lost love, rhythmically advanced melodies, three-octave vocal range, characteristic dark sunglasses, and sometimes distinctive usage of falsetto, typified in songs such as “

Only The Lonely, “

Oh, Pretty Woman”, and “

Crying”. In 1989, he was inducted posthumously into the National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame.

1	Oh, Pretty Woman	1,629
2	You Got It	1,270
3	Crying	924
4	In Dreams	856
5	Only The Lonely	628
6	I Drove All Night	499
7	Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel)	417
8	Pretty Woman	380
9	Blue Bayou	345
10	Oh Pretty Woman	299
11	Blue Angel	265
12	Ooby Dooby	259
13	Running Scared	251
14	It's Over	243
15	California Blue	239