"He sang it while I was banging my hand down on the table and by the time she returned, we had the song," remembered co-writer Bill Dees.

While Roy Orbison passed from this life into the next on Dec. 6, 1988, his music lives on in the great American songbook of rock ‘n’ roll hits. What sets Orbison apart from many of his ...

Among his more than 40 songs to hit the ... From 1960 to 1966, 22 of Orbison’s singles reached the Billboard Top 40. He wrote ...