ROY ORBISON - CRYING

CRYING

ROY OSBORN

SONGWRITERS: JOE MELSON & ROY ORBISON

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ROY ORBISON’S GREATEST HITS

LABEL: MONUMENT RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1962

 

        Roy Kelton Orbison(April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. His music was described by critics as operatic, earning him the nicknames "The Caruso of Rock" and "The Big O." Many of Orbison's songs conveyed vulnerability at a time when most male rock-and-roll performers chose to project machismo. He performed while standing motionless and wearing black clothes to match his dyed black hair and dark sunglasses.

     Born in Texas, Orbison began singing in a rockabilly and country-and-western band as a teenager. He was signed by Sam Phillips of Sun Records in 1956, but enjoyed his greatest success with Monument Records. From 1960 to 1966, 22 of Orbison's singles reached the Billboard Top 40. He wrote or co-wrote almost all of his own Top 10 hits, including "Only the Lonely" (1960), "Running Scared" (1961), "Crying" (1961), "In Dreams" (1963), and "Oh, Pretty Woman" (1964).

           After the mid-1960s, Orbison suffered a number of personal tragedies and his career faltered. He experienced a resurgence in popularity in the 1980s following the success of several cover versions of his songs. In 1988, he co-founded the Traveling Wilburys(a rock supergroup) with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne. Orbison died of a heart attack in December 1988 at age 52. One month later, his song "You Got It" (1989) was released as a solo single, becoming his first hit to reach the US and UK Top 10 in nearly 25 years.

         Orbison's honors include inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989, and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2014. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and five other Grammy Awards. Rolling Stone placed him at number 37 on its list of the "Greatest Artists of All Time" and number 13 on its list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In 2002, Billboard magazine listed him at number 74 on its list of the Top 600 recording artists.

      Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits is a Roy Orbison record album from Monument Records recorded at the RCA Studio B in Nashville and released in 1962. Between the hit songs were also "Love Star" and "Evergreen" which were released here for the first time. "Dream Baby" had recently been a Nº 4 hit in the United States and Nº 2 in England.

    According to the authorised Roy Orbison biography, this was Orbison's third album on the Monument label, and his first greatest hits compilation. It was a success remaining in the charts for 140 weeks. It was re-released in 1967 after his departure from Monument Records.

I was alright for a while

I could smile for a while

But I saw you last night, you held my hand so tight

As you stopped to say, "Hello"

Oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell

 

That I'd been crying over you

Crying over you

Then you said, "So long"

Left me standing all alone

Alone and crying

Crying

Crying

Crying

It's hard to understand

But the touch of your hand

Can start me crying

 

I thought that I was over you

But it's true, so true

I love you even more than I did before

But darling, what can I do?

For you don't love me

And I'll always be

 

Crying over you

Crying over you

Yes, now you're gone

And from this moment on

I'll be crying

Crying

Crying

Crying

Yeah, crying

Crying

Over you.