The Classic Roy Orbison

The Classic Roy Orbison
Studio album by Roy Orbison
Released	July 1966
Genre	Rock
Length	27:58
Label	MGM
Roy Orbison chronology
The Orbison Way (1966) The Classic Roy Orbison (1966) Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson (1967)

The Classic Roy Orbison is an album recorded by Roy Orbison on the MGM Records label and released in July 1966. The single taken from it, "Twinkle Toes", would be Orbison's last US top-forty single during his lifetime, scraping in at #39. It also reached #24 in Australia and #29 in the UK.

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History

Some of the songs were leftovers from The Orbison Way sessions, Whilst the album was due to be complete Orbison went to England and promoted the single “Twinkle Toes”. On Easter Sunday 1966, he was riding his motorbike at Hawkestone Park in Birmingham when he fell off the bike and injured his foot. He performed a concert that week in a cast. Three weeks after the album was completed on June 6, 1966, Orbison and his wife Claudette rode on their motorbikes to a drag race in Bristol, Tennessee. They rode back the same night turning off Interstate 40 onto Highway 109 toward Gallatin for a shortcut back to Hendersonville. Roy led the way with Claudette behind him. Roy then heard sirens of emergency vehicles before his realised that Claudette wasn’t with him. He turned around to find out that she had been struck by a lorry and died later in hospital.

Track listing

The album reached No. 12 in the UK. All tracks composed by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees, except where indicated.

Side one

1. "You'll Never Be Sixteen Again"
2. "Pantomime"
3. "Twinkle Toes"
4. "Losing You"
5. "City Life"
6. "Wait"

Side two

1. "Growing Up"
2. "Where Is Tomorrow"
3. "(No) I'll Never Get Over You" (Orbison)
4. "Going Back to Gloria"
5. "Just Another Name for Rock and Roll" (Bill Dees)
6. "Never Love Again" (Rusty Kershaw, Doug Kershaw)

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