7-CD box (LP-size) with 104-page hardcover book, 189 tracks. Playing time approx. 482 mns

The ultimate Roy Orbison! Between 1955 and 1965 Roy Orbison revolutionised popular music and these are the recordings that did it! This 7-CD set includes every recording from his golden decade! Beginning his career as a rockabilly singer on Jew-Wel and Sun Records , Roy Orbison scored one hit, Oooby Dooby, and left many great early rare and rockin' sides behind ... Problem Child, Down The Line, Rockhouse, Cat Called Domino... as well as songs he wrote for Buddy Holly, like An Empty Cup and You've Got Love. Then Roy Orbison's song Claudette (both early demo's included here for the first time!) became a hit for the Everly Brothers, and Roy Orbison went to Nashville to record first for RCA, then Monument.

At Monument Records, Roy Orbison made the most perfectly realised pop music of the early-to-mid Sixties. Bruce Springsteen spoke of its 'mysterious sense of longing. ' As Roy Orbison's contemporaries fell to the British Invasion, he went from strength to strength. All of his Monument recordings are complete here for the first time. All The hits, Uptown, Only The Lonely, Blue Angel, I'm Hurtin', Running Scared, Crying, Candy Man, Dream Baby, In Dreams, Falling, Mean Woman Blues, Blue Bayou, Pretty Paper, It's Over, Oh Pretty Woman, and more! All the B-sides, including songs that became big hits for other artists, like Today's Teardrops, Love Hurts, and Distant Drums. And all the album tracks from all the Monument LPs, plus previously unissued alternate takes and rare demos!

This set concludes with Roy Orbison's first MGM hit, Ride Away from 1965, closing out incredible 10 years... 10 years that changed the way popular music was made. Altogether, this set includes more than 150 recordings, as well as an LP-sized book that includes many previously unseen photographs, a newly researched biography by Colin Escott, and a complete discography.

Track Listing

• EARLY:
• Ooby Dooby
• Trying To Get To You
• Ooby Dooby (sun master)
• Go! Go! Go!
• You're My Baby
• Rock House
• Sweet And Easy To Love
• Devil Doll
• Love Dumb Baby (fragment)
• Fool's Hall Of Fame
• A True Love Goodbye
• Chicken Hearted
• I Like Love
• Mean Little Mama
• Problem Child
• Cat Called Domino
• You Tell Me
• I Give Up
• One More Time
• Lovestruck
• The Clown
• Claudette
• The Cause Of It All
• You're Gonna Cry
• This Kind Of Love
• It's Too Late
• I Never Knew

• Ooby Dooby (alt)
• Ooby Dooby (alt 2)
• Ooby Dooby (alt 3)
• Trying To Get To You (alt)
• Chicken Hearted (semi spoken vocal)
• Problem Child (alt)
• The Clown (alt)
• It's Too Late (alt)
• I Was A Fool
• Seems To Me
• Sweet And Innocent
• I'll Never Tell
• Almost Eighteen
• Jolie
• Paper Boy
• With The Bug
• Hey! Miss Fannie
• An Empty Cup
• I Guess I'm Lonely
• You Fool You
• Velveteen Doll
• She's Okay

• Racker Tacker
• Blue Suede Shoes
• Brown Eyed Handsome Man
• St. Louis Blues
• All By Myself
• Lawdy Miss Clawdy
• Jam
• Singing The Blues
• Pretend
• Rip It Up
• TK Blues
• Bo Diddley
• Do You Remember' (B.Pat,Jack & James talk
• about the TEEN KINGS)

• MONUMENT:
• Double Date
• Up Town
• Raindrops
• Pretty One
• Blue Avenue
• Only The Lonely
• Here Comes That Song Again
• Today's Teardrops
• Blue Angel
• I'll Say It's My Fault
• Come Back To Me (My Love)
• (I'd Be) A Legend In My Time
• Bye Bye Love
• Twentytwo Days
• Cry
• I Can't Stop Loving You
• I'm Hurtin'
• Darkness
• Let's Make A Memory
• Love Hurts
• Running Scared
• Nightliefe (with semi spoken intro)
• Summer Song
• Loneliness
• Dance

• Lana
• She Wears My Ring
• Crying
• Sunset
• The Great Pretender
• Candy Man
• House Without Windows
• (They Call You) Gigolette
• How Are Things In Paradise
• Wedding Day
• Yes
• Let The Good Times Roll
• Blue Bayou (2)
• Party Heart
• Evergreen
• Love Star
• Dream Baby
• The Actress
• No One Will Ever Know
• The Crowd (2)
• Mama
• (I Get So) Sentimental
• Leah
• Working For The Man
• Borne On The Wind
• Distant Drums

• Falling
• Shahdaroba
• I Dreams
• Dream
• My Prayer
• Lonely Wine
• Beautiful Dreamer
• All I Have To Do Is Dream Of You
• Mean Woman Blues
• What'd I Say
• San Fernando (german)
• Mama (german)
• Pretty Paper
• Almost
• It's Over
• Indian Wedding
• O Pretty Woman (single version)
• Yo Te Amo Maria
• Only With You
• Goodnight
• (Say) You're My Girl (fast)
• (Say) You're My Girl (slow)
• Sleepy Hollow
• Ride Away (MGM)

• RARTIES/SESSIONS:

• Nightlife
• Borne On The Wind (different vocal)
• With The Bug (MO 546-2)
• SESSIONS:
• Double Date (takes 1 & 2)
• Double Date (take 5)
• Double Date (take 6)
• Paper Boy (takes 14/16)
• Paper Boy (take 17)
• Paper Boy (take 18)
• Paper Boy (take 19)
• With The Bug (take 1)
• With The Bug (take 2)
• With The Bug (take 3)
• With The Bug (take 4)
• With The Bug (take 9)
• THE ROY ORBISON COCA COLA ADVERTS:
• Let's Get Together For A Coke Again (1&2&3)
• Stayed Out Too Late (1 & 2)
• Things Go Better With Coke
• Life Is Fun When You're Refreshed (1&2&3)
• C.O.C.A. C.O.L.A (1 & 2)

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Pop/Rock

Run Time: 482 mins

Release Date: 01/02/07

UPC: 4000127164230