Roy Orbison

**Roy Kelton Orbison** (23 April 1936-6 Desember 1988) merupakan seorang penyanyi dan pencipta lagu berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat. Dia menjadi yang terkenal saat menyanyikan lagu-lagu utamanya seperti "Ooby Dooby," "Only The Lonely," "In Dreams," "Oh, Pretty Woman," "Crying," "Running Scared," dan "You Got It." Dia dilahirkan di Vernon, Texas, Amerika Serikat. Berkarier di dunia musik sejak tahun 1956 dan sampai kematiannya pada tahun 1988 akibat serangan jantung yang dideritanya.

## Diskografi
### Lagu

### Album

* 1961 Lonely and Blue (Monument) Re-issued, 2006 (Legacy Recordings)
* 1962 Crying (Monument) Re-issued, 2006 (Legacy Recordings)
* 1962 Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits (Monument)
* 1963 In Dreams (Monument) Re-issued, 2006 (Legacy Recordings)
* 1964 More of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits (Monument)
* 1965 There Is Only One Roy Orbison (MGM)
* 1965 Orbisongs (Monument)
* 1966 The Orbison Way (MGM)
* 1966 The Classic Roy Orbison (MGM)
* 1967 Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson (MGM)
* 1967 The Fastest Guitar Alive (Movie Soundtrack) (MGM)
* 1967 Cry Softly Lonely One (MGM)
* 1969 Roy Orbison's Many Moods (MGM)
* 1970 The Great Songs of Roy Orbison (MGM)
* 1970 Hank Williams the Roy Orbison Way (MGM)
* 1970 The Big O (UK, London)
* 1970 Zig Zag (Movie Soundtrack) (MGM)
* 1972 Roy Orbison Sings (MGM)
* 1972 Memphis (MGM)
* 1973 Milestones (MGM)
* 1974 I'm Still in Love with You (Mercury)
* 1976 Regeneration (Monument)
* 1978 Living Legend (Movie Soundtrack, only 1,000 copies were made)
* 1979 Laminar Flow (Asylum)
* 1980 Roadie (Movie Soundtrack) (Warner Bros)
* 1985 Class of '55 (Lewis, Cash and Perkins) (Polygram)
* 1985 Insignificance (Movie Sountrack) (Zenith)
* 1986 Blue Velvet (Movie Soundtrack) (Varese Sarabande)
* 1987 In Dreams: The Greatest Hits (New recordings, Virgin)
* 1987 Less Than Zero (Movie Soundtrack)(Def Jam/Columbia)
* 1987 Hiding Out (Movie Soundtrack) (Virgin)
* 1988 Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (Wilbury/WB)
* 1989 Mystery Girl (Virgin)
* 1989 A Black & White Night Live (Virgin)
* 1992 King of Hearts (Virgin)

### Kolaborasi dan Kedatangan Tamu

* Find My Baby For Me - Sonny Burgess
* I Was A Fool - Ken Cook
* Jenny - Ken Cook
* I Fell in Love - Ken Cook
* Rockabilly Gal - Hayden Thompson
* Greenback Dollar, Watch and Chain - Ray Harris
* Cast Iron Arm - Johnny Wilson
* You've Got Love - Johnny Wilson
* Don't Do Me This Way - Ricky Tucker (laporan dengan Buddy Holly)
* Patty Baby - Ricky Tucker (laporan dengan Buddy Holly)
* Fools Like Me - Jerry Lee Lewis
* Shook Up - Joe Melson
* Dance - Joe Melson
* I'm In A Blue Mood - Conway Twitty
* I Belong To Him - Jessi Colter with Waylon Jennings
* Indian Summer - Gatlin Brothers & Barry Gibb
* Leah - Bertie Higgins
* Beyond The End - Jimmy Buffett
* Zombie Zoo - Tom Petty

## Pranala luar

* Situs resmi
* CMT's tribute to Roy Contains a music video section that contains the entire "Diamond Career Awards" from 11-18-88, and also several rare videos "Heartbreak Radio" and "Walk On"
* Daily Telegraph article  by Julian Lloyd Webber
* Official Traveling Wilburys Website

## Referensi

* Colin Escott, *Roadkill on the Three-Chord Highway.* Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-93783-3 — has a chapter devoted to Orbison.
* Escott, Colin. (1998). "Roy Orbison". In *The Encyclopedia of Country Music*. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. p.&nbsp;395.
* Biography from the official website
* Biography from the hotshotdigital.com