![]() ![]() Quivering with feeling, his voice made delicate leaps close to the microphone while escalating to resounding emotional payoffs. “Running Scared” and “Crying” followed suit, offering a darker, more adult alternative to the quaint teen-idol ballads of the day. From there, he migrated to Nashville, eventually finding his long-sought niche with 1960’s “Only the Lonely,” an aching reverie elevated by melodramatic strings, backing vocals, and Orbison’s haunting licks of falsetto. Born in Vernon, Texas in 1936, he devoted himself to playing and singing country music from a young age, forming rockabilly bands as a teen before ending up at Sun Records. ![]() ![]() Between his panoramic vocal delivery and operatic build-ups-not to mention those signature dark glasses-Roy Orbison still cuts a singular figure in the rock ‘n’ roll landscape. ![]()
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