Now, everyone knows that no one sings like Roy Orbison.” Orbison completed his comeback solo album, “Mystery Girl,” in November of 1988 but died suddenly of a heart attack the following month.

It’s impossible to choose only three Roy Orbison tracks. But here are three heartbreaking ballads from one of America’s most unique and melancholic voices. Because so much of his emotional power comes ...

all accentuated by these incredible songs—will reach the rafters like one of Roy’s impossible notes.” Orbison was in early rock ‘n’ roll pioneer with an almost operatic voice who ...