The Orbison Way

The Orbison Way
Studio album by Roy Orbison
Released	January 1966
Recorded	July 8 - November 14, 1965
Genre	Rock
Length	27:11
Label	MGM
Producer	Wesley Rose, Jim Vienneau
Roy Orbison chronology
Orbisongs (1965) The Orbison Way (1966) The Classic Roy Orbison (1966)

The Orbison Way is the eighth album recorded by Roy Orbison, and his second for MGM Records, released in January 1966. Two singles were taken from that album; "Crawling Back" and "Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart", both of which were chart hits in England, the US and Australia.

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees, except where indicated. Five of their songs feature his band, The Candy Men

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Crawling Back"		3:15
2.	"It Ain't No Big Thing"		2:22
3.	"Time Changed Everything"	Buddy Buie, John Rainey Adkins	2:09
4.	"This Is My Land"	Bill Dees	3:05
5.	"The Loner"	Bill Dees, John Rainey Adkins	2:24
6.	"Maybe"		2:24

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart"		2:09
2.	"Go Away"		3:03
3.	"A New Star"		2:58
4.	"Never"		2:15
5.	"It Wasn't Very Long Ago"	Barry Booth	2:33
6.	"Why Hurt the One Who Loves You?"		2:36

Personnel

• Produced by Wesley Rose & Jim Vienneau
• Arranged by Bill McElhiney
• Bill Malloy - engineer
• Val Valentin - director of engineering
• Ace Lehman - cover design

The album charted #11 in the UK and #128 in the US.