16 Biggest Hits

by Roy Orbison

Overview

Roy Orbison scored 20 consecutive Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965, all but the last of them on the Monument Records label. This compilation presents 16 of the first 17 of those hits (missing is the 1963 Christmas song "Pretty Paper"), from the 1960 gold-seller "Only the Lonely" to the 1964 chart-topper "Oh, Pretty Woman," with Orbison's seven other Top Ten hits of the era in between. Technically, a few of Orbison's singles of 1965 and 1966 did a little better in the charts than a few of the ones here, and, of course, he scored a final, posthumous Top Ten hit with "You Got It" on Virgin Records in 1989. But this collection presents the music from the hottest part of his career in chronological order, with standards like "Crying" sharing space with lesser, but still worthy songs like "I'm Hurtin'." Aficionados know Orbison's Sun works, and his later recordings earned him a new audience, but the Monument hit singles of the early '60s are what he is best remembered for, and they're all here. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	01/18/2011
Label:	Legacy / Monument Records / Sony Legacy
UPC:	0886978310521
Rank:	1930

Tracks

1. Only The Lonely
2. Blue Angel
3. I'm Hurtin'
4. Running Scared
5. Crying
6. Candy Man
7. Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
8. The Crowd
9. Leah
10. Workin' For The Man
11. In Dreams
12. Falling
13. Mean Woman Blues
14. Blue Bayou
15. It's Over
16. Oh, Pretty Woman

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Roy Orbison   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

B. Ross   Composer
Bill Dees   Composer
Cindy Walker   Composer
Claude Demetrius   Composer
Fred Foster   Original Recording Producer
Fred Neil   Composer
Joe Melson   Composer
Eric Conn   Digital Editing
Denny Purcell   Mastering
Margie Hunt   Executive Producer
Jonathan Russell   Assistant
Roy Orbison   Composer
F. Neil   Composer
J. Melson   Composer
Carlos Grier   Digital Editing
C. Walker   Composer
David Redfern   Photography
Robert Goodman   Design,Art Direction
Claude de Metruis   Composer
B. Dees   Composer
Beverly "Ruby" Ross   Composer