In 1960, he finally broke into the Top Ten in the US with the song “Only the Lonely”. He spent a few years struggling to get by, writing and performing. And after he heard their song “Ooby Dooby”, Phillips signed them.Īfter some success on the label with the Teen Kings, Roy Orbison decided to pursue a career as a solo act and songwriter. It was Cash, who suggested that Roy and his band the Teen Kings approach Sun Records executive Sam Phillips. Raised in Texas during the Great Depression, Roy was given a guitar an age six, and as he put it, “I was finished, you know, for anything else.” In his youth, he was heavily influenced by artists like Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash.
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