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Date

Title

Album

Comment

Video

Roy Orbison

06/1960

③ Only the Lonely (Know How I Feel) by Roy Orbison

from Lonely and Blue

173

2
US

14
R&B

✫1
UK

[songwriter #3 hit]

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #232]
[Monument 421]
written by Roy Orbison & Joe Melson

09/1960

Blue Angel by Roy Orbison

from Lonely and Blue

9
US

23
R&B

11
UK

[Monument 425]
written by Roy Orbison & Joe Melson

12/1960

I'm Hurtin' by Roy Orbison

from Lonely and Blue

27
US

[Monument 433]
written by Roy Orbison & Joe Melson

04/1961

④ Running Scared by Roy Orbison

from Crying

129

✫1
US

9
UK

[songwriter #4 hit]
[Monument 438]
written by Roy Orbison & Joe Melson

08/1961

⑤ Crying by Roy Orbison

from Crying

2
US

25
UK

[songwriter #5 hit]

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #69]
B side to Candy Man
[Monument 447]
written by Roy Orbison & Joe Melson

09/1963

Blue Bayou by Roy Orbison

from In Dreams

29
US

26
R&B

3
UK

B side to Mean Woman Blues ; charted as Blue Bayou / Mean Woman Blues in UK charts
[Monument 824]
written by Roy Orbison & Joe Melson

Linda Ronstadt

09/1977

② Blue Bayou by Linda Ronstadt

from Simple Dreams

230

3
US

3
AC

2
country

35
UK

[songwriter #2 hit]
[Asylum 45431]
written by Roy Orbison & Joe Melson

Don McLean

05/1980

① Crying by Don McLean

from Chain Lightning

344

5
US

2
AC

6
country

✫1
UK

[songwriter #1 hit]
[Millennium 11799]
written by Roy Orbison & Joe Melson

Roy Orbison

12/1987

Crying by Roy Orbison

from In Dreams: The Greatest Hits

28
AC

42
country

with KD Lang
[R]
[new version]
[from the film Hiding Out]
[Virgin 99388]
written by Roy Orbison & Joe Melson

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