Roy Orbison discography
Studio albums
- 1961 Roy Orbison at the Rock House (Sun)
- 1961 Lonely and Blue (Monument) Re-issued, 2006 (Legacy Recordings)
- 1962 Crying (Monument) Re-issued, 2006 (Legacy Recordings)
- 1963 In Dreams (Monument) Re-issued, 2006 (Legacy Recordings)
- 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 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 appearance) (Warner Bros)
- 1985 Class of '55 (Lewis, Cash and Perkins) (Polygram)
- 1987 In Dreams: The Greatest Hits (New recordings, Virgin)
- 1987 Less Than Zero (Movie Soundtrack appearance)(Def Jam/Columbia)
- 1988 Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (Wilbury/WB)
- 1989 Mystery Girl (Virgin)
- 1992 King of Hearts (Virgin)
Live albums
- 1989 A Black & White Night Live (Virgin)
Compilations
- 1962 Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits (Monument)
- 1964 More of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits (Monument)
- 1970 The Great Songs of Roy Orbison (MGM)
- 1975 The Living Legend of Roy Orbison (Columbia Special Products, Candlelite Music)
- 1977 All-Time Greatest Hits (Monument)
- 1989 (CBS special products CD) The Legendary Roy Orbison 20 Original Hits/Original Recordings (PolyGram/PolyTel) & (1988 Telstar Records Ltd.)
Singles
Charted hits shown in bold.
The 1950s
| US Release Date | A-Side | B-Side | Label | Chart Positions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Hot 100 | US A/C | US Country | Australia | Canada | Norway | UK | Notes | ||||
| 1956 | Trying to Get to You | Ooby Dooby | Je-Wel | ||||||||
| 1956 | Ooby Dooby | Go Go Go | Sun | #56 | |||||||
| 1956 | Rock House | You're My Baby | Sun | ||||||||
| 1957 | Sweet and Easy to Love | Devil Doll | Sun | ||||||||
| 1957 | Chicken Hearted | I Like Love | Sun | ||||||||
| 1958 | Seems to Me | Sweet and Innocent | RCA | B-side was later covered by Donny Osmond in 1971, becoming Osmond's first chart hit (peaking at #7). | |||||||
| 1958 | Almost 18 | Jolie | RCA | ||||||||
| 1959 | Paper Boy | With the Bug | Monument | Re-released in 1962 with "Here Comes That Song Again" as the B-side. This re-release also failed to chart. | |||||||
| 1959 | Uptown | Pretty One | Monument | #72 | |||||||
The 1960s
| US Release Date | A-Side | B-Side | Label | Chart Positions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Hot 100 | US A/C | US Country | Australia | Canada | Norway | UK | Notes | ||||
| 1960 | Only the Lonely (Know The Way I Feel) | Here Comes That Song Again | Monument | #2 | #5 | #2 | #4 | #1 | |||
| 1960 | Blue Angel | Today's Teardrops | Monument | #9 | #28 | #14 | #11 | ||||
| 1960 | I'm Hurtin' | I Can't Stop Loving You | Monument | #27 | #27 | ||||||
| 1961 | Running Scared | Love Hurts(see below) | Monument | #1 | #5 | #1 | #9 | ||||
| 1961 | {see above} | Love Hurts | Monument | #5 | |||||||
| 1961 | Crying | Candy Man (see below) | Monument | #2 | #1 | #3 | #25 | ||||
| 1961 | {see above} | Candy Man | Monument | #25 | #1 | #3 | |||||
| 1962 | Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) | The Actress | Monument | #4 | #2 | #8 | #5 | #2 | |||
| 1962 | The Crowd | Mama | Monument | #26 | #25 | #25 | #40 | ||||
| 1962 | Evergreen | Monument | #100 | Australian release only | |||||||
| 1962 | Working for the Man | Leah (see below) | Monument | #33 | #1 | #19 | #50 | ||||
| 1962 | {see above} | Leah | Monument | #25 | #1 | #19 | |||||
| 1963 | In Dreams | Shahadaroba | Monument | #7 | #3 | #1 | #7 | #6 | |||
| 1963 | Falling | Distant Drums(see below) | Monument | #22 | #7 | #3 | #29 | #9 | |||
| 1962 | {see above} | Distant Drums | Monument | #3 | |||||||
| 1963 | Blue Bayou | Mean Woman Blues (see below) | Monument | #29 | #1 | #14 | #10 | #3 | |||
| 1963 | {see above} | Mean Woman Blues | Monument | #5 | #1 | #14 | #3 | ||||
| 1963 | Pretty Paper | Beautiful Dreamer(see below) | Monument | #15 | #10 | #4 | #9 | #6 | UK release charted in 1964, with different B-side. | ||
| 1963 | {see above} | Beautiful Dreamer | Monument | #4 | |||||||
| 1964 | Borne on the Wind | What'd I Say (see below) | Monument/ London | #8 | #15 | UK/Australia release only. | |||||
| 1964 | {see above} | What'd I Say | Monument/ London | #8 | UK/Australia release only. | ||||||
| 1964 | It's Over | Indian Wedding (see below) | Monument | #9 | #1 | #9 | #29 | #10 | #1 | ||
| 1964 | {see above} | Indian Wedding | Monument | #9 | |||||||
| 1964 | Oh, Pretty Woman | Yo Te Amo Maria | Monument | #1 | #1 | #1 | #1 | #1 | |||
| 1964 | She Wears My Ring (4-track EP) |
Wedding Day/ Love Hurts/ Borne on the Wind |
Monument | #68 | Australia/NZ release only. | ||||||
| 1965 | Goodnight | Only with You | Monument | #21 | #6 | #5 | #14 | ||||
| 1965 | (Say) You're My Girl | Sleepy Hollow | Monument | #39 | #8 | #17 | #23 | ||||
| August 1965 | Ride Away | Wondering | MGM | #25 | #15 | #1 | #34 | ||||
| October 1965 | Crawling Back | If You Can't Say Something Nice | MGM | #46 | #14 | #2 | #19 | ||||
| December 1965 | Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart | Wait | MGM | #31 | #19 | #2 | #22 | ||||
| 1966 | Distant Drums | Let the Good Times Roll | Monument | #81 | |||||||
| March 1966 | Twinkle Toes | Where Is Tomorrow | MGM | #39 | #13 | #25 | #29 | ||||
| 1966 | Lana | Our Summersong | Monument | #4 | #15 | ||||||
| June 1966 | Too Soon to Know | You'll Never Be Sixteen Again | MGM | #68 | #20 | #3 | |||||
| 1966 | There Won't Be Many Coming Home | Going Back to Gloria | MGM/ London | #12 | #18 | UK/Australian release only. Australian release charted in Feb 1967. | |||||
| November 1966 | Communication Breakdown | Twinkle Toes | MGM | #60 | #8 | ||||||
| February 1967 | So Good | Memories | MGM | #132 | #28 | #32 | |||||
| June 1967 | Cry Softly Lonely One | Pistolero | MGM | #52 | #10 | #29 | B-side featured in The Fastest Guitar Alive. | ||||
| September 1967 | She | Here Comes the Rain Baby | MGM | #119 | #23 | ||||||
| January 1968 | Born to Be Loved by You | Shy Away | MGM | #25 | |||||||
| May 1968 | Walk On | Flowers | MGM | #121 | #53 | #39 | |||||
| August 1968 | Heartache | Sugar Man | MGM | #104 | #57 | #44 | |||||
| March 1969 | My Friend | Southbound Jericho Parkway (see below) | MGM | #99 | #35 | ||||||
| March 1969 | {see above} | Southbound Jericho Parkway | MGM | #99 | |||||||
| August 1969 | Penny Arcade | Tennessee Owns My Soul | MGM | #133 | #1 | #27 | |||||
| December 1969 | Break My Mind | How Do You Start Over | MGM/ London | #26 | UK/Australian release only. Australian release charted in Jan 1970. | ||||||
The 1970s
| US Release Date | A-Side | B-Side | Label | Chart Positions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Hot 100 | US A/C | US Country | Australia | Canada | Norway | UK | Notes | ||||
| January 1970 | She Cheats on Me | How Do You Start Over Again | MGM | ||||||||
| April 1970 | So Young | If I Had a Woman Like You | MGM | #122 | #82 | ||||||
| August 1971 | (Love Me Like You Did) Last Night | Close Again | MGM | ||||||||
| January 1972 | God Love You | Changes | MGM | ||||||||
| July 1972 | Remember The Good | Harlem Woman | MGM | Also issued with "If Only for a While" as B-side. | |||||||
| September 1972 | Memphis, Tennessee | I Can Read Between the Lines | MGM | #84 | |||||||
| May 1973 | Blue Rain (Coming Down) | Sooner or Later | MGM | ||||||||
| August 1973 | I Wanna Live | You Lay So Easy on My Mind | MGM | ||||||||
| 1974 | Sweet Mama Blue | Heartache | Mercury | ||||||||
| 1975 | Hung Up on You | Spanish Nights | Mercury | ||||||||
| 1975 | It's Lonely | Still | Mercury | #56 | |||||||
| 1976 | Belinda | No Chain at All | Monument | ||||||||
| 1976 | I'm a Southern Man | Born to Love Me | Monument | ||||||||
| 1977 | Drifting Away | Under Suspicion | Monument | ||||||||
| 1979 | Easy Way Out | Tears | Asylum | #109 | |||||||
| 1979 | Poor Baby | Lay It Down | Asylum | ||||||||
The 1980s
| US Release Date | A-Side | B-Side | Label | Chart Positions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Hot 100 | US A/C | US Country | Australia | Canada | Norway | UK | Notes | ||||
| 1980 | That Lovin' You Feelin' Again (with Emmylou Harris) | (non-Orbison B-side) | Warner | #55 | #10 | #6 | #97 | ||||
| 1985 | Wild Hearts | (various b sides) | ZTT/ Island | ||||||||
| 1985 | Carl Perkins: Birth of Rock and Roll | Roy Orbison: Rock and Roll (Fais do do) | America/ Smash | A-side performed by Carl Perkins; Orbison appears only on B-side. | |||||||
| 1987 | In Dreams | Leah | Virgin | #75 | Both tracks are re-recorded versions of earlier hits. | ||||||
| 1987 | Crying (with k.d. lang) | Falling | Virgin | #28 | #42 | #2 | Both tracks are re-recorded versions of earlier hits. Also see 1992 reissue. | ||||
| 1988 | Handle with Care | Margarita | Wilbury/WB | #45 | #3 | #21 | As a member of Traveling Wilburys. | ||||
| 1989 | You Got It | The Only One | Virgin | #9 | #1 | #7 | #3 | #1 | #3 | #3 | Initial B-side was "Crying" (with k.d. lang) |
| 1989 | End of the Line | Congratulations | Wilbury/ WB | #63 | #12 | As a member of Traveling Wilburys. | |||||
| 1989 | California Blue | In Dreams | Virgin | #44 | #51 | #61 | |||||
| 1989 | She's a Mystery to Me | Dream Baby (live) | Virgin | #23 | #17 | #27 | |||||
The 1990s
| US Release Date | A-Side | B-Side | Label | Chart Positions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Hot 100 | US A/C | US Country | Australia | Canada | Norway | UK | Notes | ||||
| 1990 | Oh Pretty Woman (live) | Claudette | Virgin | #48 | #89 | ||||||
| 1992 | I Drove All Night | MCA | #74 | #22 | #7 | ||||||
| 1992 | Crying (with k.d. lang) Reissue |
Virgin | #40 | #71 | #13 | Reissue of 1987 hit. | |||||
| 1992 | Heartbreak Radio | (various) | MCA | #36 | |||||||
Collaborations and guest appearances
- 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 (reportedly with Buddy Holly)
- Patty Baby - Ricky Tucker (reportedly with 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