ROY ORBISON AND THE SHADOW OF A NAME: PROBLEM CHILD
Best Oldies Songs A defiant confession of love that stands its ground even when the world refuses to understand. Upon its release in 1962, Problem Child became another Top Ten entry on the…
Roy Orbison – Here Comes That Song Again
HERE COMES THAT SONG AGAIN CAPTURES THE UNAVOIDABLE RETURN OF MEMORY AND LONGING IN THE WAKE OF A BROKEN HEART In the spring of 1960, Roy Orbison was ascending toward…
Roy Orbison – Keep My Motor Running: Racing Against Time and Memory
A Celebration of Rock and Roll’s Restless Pulse in Keep My Motor Running Keep My Motor Running appears as a loose, rollicking invocation of rock’s youthful energy on the 1986…
Roy Orbison – Paper Boy: A Fragile Story Told in Song
THE QUIET MELANCHOLY OF LOST LOVE SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A SMALL‑TOWN ANNOUNCER “Paper Boy” occupies a singular place in the catalogue of Roy Orbison, an artist whose early…
ROY ORBISON AND THE MOMENT LOVE ARRIVES: LOVE STRUCK
Love arrives like a sudden lightning strike, leaving awe, vulnerability, and no path back to innocence. In 1962, Roy Orbison released Love Struck, a song that did not register as…
ROY ORBISON AND THE MOMENT EVERYTHING BEGINS TO FALL: DOMINO
A portrait of inevitability, where love collapses not with a crash but with the quiet certainty of falling pieces When Roy Orbison released Domino, the song quickly established itself as…
ROY ORBISON AND THE NEARNESS OF LOSS: IT WASN’T VERY LONG AGO
A quiet reckoning with how swiftly love, certainty, and innocence can slip into memory Released in 1963 as the B side to the Top 30 Billboard Hot 100 hit Blue…
Roy Orbison – Breaking Up Is Breaking My Heart
A confession sung in shadows, where love ends not with distance but with unbearable closeness. Released in 1963, BREAKING UP IS BREAKING MY HEART rose to No. 8 on the…
Roy Orbison – One More Time
A quiet plea for emotional resurrection, where love is not revived through drama but through the fragile hope of being felt one last time. Released by ROY ORBISON in 1967,…
Roy Orbison – The Clown
A heartbreak disguised as laughter, where sorrow paints its face and smiles learn to ache. Released during the early Monument Records years of Roy Orbison, The Clown emerged in 1962…