B-side "Indian Wedding" Length 2:47 Writer(s) Roy Orbison, Bill Dees | Released April 1964 Label Monument 837 Producer(s) Wesley Rose | |
"It's Over" is an American song composed by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees and sung by Orbison.
Produced by Fred Foster and released as a 45rpm single by Monument Records in 1964, "It's Over" typifies the operatic rock ballad. The single entered the United States Cashbox chart on April 11, 1964, peaking at No.10 (on May 23, 1964), and reached No. 9 on the Billboard pop music chart. Meanwhile, after entering the United Kingdom singles chart on April 30, 1964, "It's Over" reached No. 1 on June 25, 1964 (making it Orbison's second UK No. 1 single [the first was "Only the Lonely" in 1960]). "It's Over" spent 2 weeks at No.1 on the UK singles chart, out of a total of 18 weeks on that chart.
The song also appears on Orbison's 1964 album More of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits and his 1989 posthumous album A Black & White Night Live from the 1988 HBO television special.
In 1964, Hong Kong singer Rebecca Pan covered this song on her I Love You LP album, released by Diamond Records.
"It's Over" was recorded by Bonnie Tyler with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra on her 2003 album Heart Strings and by Billy Mackenzie on the 1982 British Electric Foundation album "Music of Quality and Distinction Volume One". It was sung by Michael Caine in the 1998 film Little Voice.
The song was covered by Don Byron on his 2000 album "A Fine Line: Arias and Lieder". Welsh alternative rock band The Joy Formidable covered the song on their 2011 extended play, The Big More.
Jonathan Meiburg, lead singer and songwriter for the American indie rock band Shearwater, performed a version of the song in March 2013 for The A.V. Club's State Songs series.
In August 2014, Miley Cyrus was confirmed to be performing on the live series finale of the television program Chelsea Lately, for which she was to sing this song.