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Roy Orbison
Growing up in Texas listening to country music, Roy Orbison started singing with
covers band the Wink Westerners before forming The Teen Kings. They supported
Johnny Cash who recommended them to Sam Phillips of Sun Records which released
their first single 'Ooby Dooby', a hit in 1957. After The Teen Kings split,
Orbison started writing ballads and 'Claudette', a song about his girlfriend,
was covered by The Everly Brothers. He demonstrated the extraordinary range of
his voice on tear-jerking breakthrough hit 'Only the Lonely', triggering a long
run of chart smashes including 'Cry...
