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Wade Lee Moore and Dick Penner where two college friends of Roys at Denton and they had written The Ooby Dooby. Dick Penner arranged for them to record his song at Jim Becks studio in the outskirts of Dallas, Texas, which is South-East of Denton. Beck had been instrumental in the discovery of Lefty Frizzell and Marty Robbins for Columbia Records, s...

Orbison enrolled at Odessa Junior College in the fall of 1955 wanting to major in Geology but then changed to History and English. Soon, the band moved in together to a duplex in Walnut Street in Odessa. With a couple of new members they renamed themselves The Teen Kings as they were playing more and more Rock and Roll. They got a second weekly loc...

The Everlys Claudette was released on late March 1958 as the B-side of All I Have To Do Is Dream. The A side went to number 1; Claudette peaked at Number 30. At this point, his songs were also recorded by Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Rick Nelson. A duet of Crying with k.d. Lang was released as a single and on video. It also gave Roy another Gra...

The challenge to consolidate Only the Lonely was a difficult one. The follow-ups, Blue Angel and Im Hurtin, were cloned too closely from Only the Lonely, and it took another few tries for Orbison and Melson to come up with something special.

In May 1963, and with the success of In Dreams, Wesley Rose eventually accepted an invitation for Roy to tour England on a bill with The Beatles, who meant nothing in the United States at that time. The tour was sold-out in one afternoon. On the first night, Roy did fourteen encores before The Beatles could get on stage.

Roy Orbison was one of the few hit-makers to hold his ground, and even to increase his popularity in the wake of the so-called British Invasion. He did it by maintaining a matchless quality of releases, with an original variety of content, structure, tempo and rhythm. He was also an extremely subtle song craftsman, making changes during the course ...

Orbison toured Australia with the Beach Boys in 1964 and with the Rolling Stones 1965. Roy also toured extensively in Europe.

A dark period ensued as Orbisons private life began to unravel as well. In 1966, his wife Claudette, who he married in 1957, was killed in a motorcycle accident. Matters turned worse two years later when two of his three children died when his Hendersonville house burned down (Roy sold the lot to his best friend Johnny Cash. Cashs home at the exact...

Roy had met a German girl by the name of Barbara Anne Marie Wilhonnen Jacobs in August 1968, in Leeds, England. She moved to the USA in late 1968 and they were married in Nashville on May 25, 1969, and start building a brand new house just one block away from where Roys old house used to stand on Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

As his MGM contract came to an end in 1973, Roy signed a one-year contract with Mercury Records in 1974 without major acclaim, but as he would say, he always had a record in the charts in some part of the World. For example Penny Arcade was number 1 in Australia for weeks on end and Too Soon to Know was number 3 in England. After that brief stay wi...

Key factors contributed to the rebirth of Roys career in the USA. A Grammy with Emmylou Harris in 1980 for That Lovin You Feelin Again, Wild Hearts Run out of Time being in the film Insignificance, the Class of 55 LP with fellow Sun record mates, his move to Malibu, California in late 1985, he re-recorded his greatest hits for an upcoming LP for Si...

Roy wanted to do a TV Special for a long time. A couple of them were recorded, for instance Roy Orbison at the Los Angeles Country Club and Live in Birmingham, Alabama but nothing ever came close to the beautiful Roy Orbison and Friends A Black and White Night Live. The event was taped at the legendary Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel in Los...

He came back to America played his last show in Highland Heights, Ohio, had big European and American tours planned out already for the next year. He headed down to Nashville on December 4 and on Tuesday, December 6, spent time shopping for model airplane parts and flying them, but during the afternoon he complained of chest pains. Roy collapsed at...

Posthumously released in 1989, Mystery Girl became the biggest selling album of his career. Two cuts from the album became hits: You Got It made it in the U.S. Top 10 and Bonos Shes A Mystery To Me climbed to the Top 30 in the U.K. In 1992, Virgin released King of Hearts, a collection of previously unreleased songs, and The Very Best of Roy Orbison...

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of his death, Orbison Records released the ultimate box set, which included the Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night CD, and video, the In Dreams CD, and a pair of Roy Orbison signature sunglasses.

In 2004 Orbison Records released the entire MGM Series. Other exciting projects included three new DVD releases, including one never before seen live concert from Australia and the ultimate collectors DVD. We are also working on a ground breaking Roy Orbison Duets Project and an extended Black & White Night SACD and DVD audio. Dont forget the retur...

With the untimely passing of Barbara Orbison in December of 2011, Orbison Enterprises is now managed by her sons Alex and Roy Kelton Orbison, Jr. Stay tuned as there are lots of exciting Orbison times ahead as we push onward in carrying on the legacy of The Soul of Rock and Roll Roy Orbison.