The Very Best Of Roy Orbison - Roy Orbison

There are a few best of collections of roy orbison on cd this one was released in 1996 and contains some of he's best song while also missing a lot of he's other hits and best tracks. fitting on 1 cd you get a lot of he's earlier hits like pretty woman and onely the loney along with he's later hits like i drove all night and you got it. Nicknamed the big O roy orbison is classed by many as having in the greatest voice with its almost operatic tones he had a good range that could be both used for rock or ballad. orbison died in i think 1988 at what id say was the peak of he's career , having just released the brilliant mystery girl album and having a big ...  Read the complete review

Roy Orbisons Greatest Hits. This compiltion was brought out in 1996 by Virgin Records, America. The cover of the CD shows a standing Roy Orbison with dark glasses and hands in his pockets, totally cool in his black suit and black hair. The background is a graduation of tones of orange down to cream.. QUite nice, with the titles written in Lucida Calligraphy type in the back ground. All the Greatest Songs together for the first time is written in white. This theme is continued throughout the booklet which accompanies the CD. Although there are no words, there is a description of each song which states when it was recorded, who wrote it etc. On ...  Read the complete review