Released October 1, 1964 Artist Roy Orbison Producer Fred Foster | Length 27:23 Release date 1 October 1964 Label Monument Records | |
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Early Orbison
(1964) There Is Only One Roy Orbison
(1965) Genres Rock music, Rock and roll, Rockabilly Similar Roy Orbison albums, Rock music albums | ||
Early Orbison is an album recorded by Roy Orbison on the Monument Records label at their studios in Hendersonville, Tennessee and released in 1964. Essentially a compilation of songs from his first two Monument albums, it is most noteworthy for containing "Pretty One", the "B" side of Orbison's second Monument single, "Uptown". Many Orbison fans believe "Pretty One" would have been his first major hit had it been promoted as an "A" side. The second song of interest on this album is "Come Back to Me My Love" which Fred Foster, owner of Monument Records and producer of all of Orbison's earliest hits, says was the song which inspired production of the hit arrangement that later became "Only the Lonely".
Track listing
- "The Great Pretender" (Buck Ram) (P) 1962
- "Cry" (Churchill Kohlman) (P) 1961
- "I Can't Stop Loving You" (Don Gibson) (P) 1961
- "I'll Say It's My Fault" (Roy Orbison, Fred Foster) (P) 1961
- "She Wears My Ring" (Felice & Boudleaux Bryant) (P) 1962
- "Love Hurts" (B. Bryant) (P) 1962
- "Bye Bye Love" (F. Bryant/B. Bryant) (P) 1961
- "Blue Avenue" (Orbison, Joe Melson) (P) 1961
- "Raindrops" (Melson) (P) 1961
- "Come Back to Me (My Love)" (Orbison, Melson) (P) 1961
- "Summer Song" (Orbison, Melson) (P) 1962
- "Pretty One" (Orbison) (P) 1959
References
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