Rockabilly’s operatic soul, the sensitive, bespectacled Orbison forged a new genre of American music during his 1960–64 Monument Records hit streak (these two CDs compile A- and B-sides). Drawing from ...

Roy Orbison, "The Monument Singles Collection (1960-1964)," (Legacy/Monument) 5 stars. Roy Orbison scored his first hit in 1956 with the simple splendor of "Ooby Dooby" and carried on to a career ...

Fred Foster thought a young Roy Orbison—pale, scrawny and exceedingly reticent—was the antithesis of a rock star when the two met in early 1959. Orbison wasn't overly excited about meeting Foster, ...

This week in 1961: President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Krushchev were planning a summit meeting in Vienna; The Supreme Court upheld anti-communist laws in the U.S. and a young man from Vernon ...

Here's Bob Dylan, writing in his Chronicles, Volume One memoir, about hearing his future Traveling Wilburys bandmate Roy Orbison singing "Running Scared" on the radio, back when the song was new: He ...

From a puff of smoke at center stage, the legendary crooner appeared, in dark glasses and a gray suit with a black shirt underneath, and his silver crusader cross necklace. He held a red Gibson guitar ...