ROY ORBISON - "Here Comes The Rain, Baby"

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Roy Orbison was one of the best in the 60is and still are 2025 ❤❤

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Remembering "The Caruso of Country". 👍

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ROY ORBISON (April 23, 1936 - December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. Orbison's music is mostly in the rock music genre and his most successful periods were in the early 1960s and the late 1980s. He was nicknamed "The Caruso of Rock" and "The Big O". From 1960 to 1966, 22 of Orbison's singles reached the Billboard Top 40. He wrote or co-wrote almost all of his own Top 10 hits, including "Only the Lonely" (1960), "Running Scared" (1961), "Crying" (1961), "In Dreams" (1963), and "Oh, Pretty Woman" (1964). Orbison's honors include inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989, and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2014. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and five other Grammy Awards. On December 6, 1988, he spent the day buying parts for model airplanes with his bus driver and friend Benny Birchfield : p230  and ate supper at Birchfield's home in Hendersonville (Birchfield was married to country star Jean Shepard). After the meal, Orbison went to his mother's house and chatted with his son Wesley : p231 . He went to the bathroom, but did not return for 30 minutes. He was found collapsed on the bathroom floor and was rushed to the hospital by ambulance ]: p231 , where he died of a heart attack at the age of 52.

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💖💖ooo soft beautiful dreamy song this ,OH oh beautiful to this girl loving I love 💖💥velvet🌈