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Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter and musician, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly / country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis. His greatest success came with Monument Records in the early to mid 1960s when 22 of his songs placed on the US Billboard Top Forty, including “Only the Lonely”, “Crying”, “In Dreams”, and “Oh, Pretty Woman”. His career stagnated through the 1970s, but several covers of his songs and the use of one in a film by David Lynch revived his career in the 1980s. In 1988, he joined the supergroup The Traveling Wilburys with George... Read on...

• Rank
• Artist
• Song
• Year
• Points

• 1
• Roy Orbison
• Pretty Woman
• 1964
• 807

• 2
• Roy Orbison
• You Got It
• 1989
• 724

• 3
• Roy Orbison
• Crying
• 1961
• 298

• 4
• Roy Orbison
• Running Scared
• 1961
• 197

• 5
• Roy Orbison
• In Dreams
• 1963
• 178

• 6
• Roy Orbison
• Only The Lonely
• 1960
• 174

• 7
• Roy Orbison
• California Blue
• 2008
• 139

• 8
• Roy Orbison
• Blue Bayou
• 1963
• 86

• 9
• Roy Orbison
• House Without Windows
• 1952
• 58

• 10
• Emmylou Harris & Roy Orbison
• That Lovin' You Feelin' Again
• 1987
• 41

• 11
• Roy Orbison & k.d. lang
• Crying
• 2009
• 30

• 12
• Roy Orbison
• Leah
• 1962
• 30

• 13
• Roy Orbison
• Love Hurts
• 2009
• 24

• 14
• Roy Orbison
• (I'M A) Southern Man
• 2000
• 0

• 15
• Roy Orbison
• I'M Hurtin'
• 1960
• 0