The Orbison Way
The Orbison Way | ||||
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Released | January 1966 | |||
Recorded | July 8 – November 14, 1965 | |||
Genre | Rock and roll | |||
Length | 27:11 | |||
Label | MGM | |||
Producer | Wesley Rose, Jim Vienneau | |||
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Singles from The Orbison Way | ||||
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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 the album—"Crawling Back" and "Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart"—both of which were chart hits in England, the US and Australia.
Cash Box described "Crawling Back" as a "tender, slow-moving, laconic ode about a love-sick fella who’ll go to any lengths to get his ex-gal back again."[4] Cash Box described "Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart" as a "medium-paced, full orked and chorus backed soulful tearjerker about a lonely guy who’s been singing the blues since his gal jilted him."[5]
The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated March 5 that year and remained on the chart for 3 weeks, peaking at number 128.[6] It was more successful in The UK, where it spent for 10 weeks on the album chart there at number 11.[7]
Reception
[edit]Bruce Eder of AllMusic said that the album "allow Orbison to open up vocally as never before, casting him in an almost operatic setting, in terms of emotional pitch, though the material itself is pure pop/rock with some elements of country-pop. "The Loner" (co-authored by Adkins), "Maybe," "Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart," "Time Changes Everything" and much of the rest here could have passed muster on any of Orbison's Monument albums, though some of the other songwriting and some of the stylistic choices are debatable."[8]
Track listing
[edit]All tracks composed by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees, except where indicated. Five of their songs feature his band, The Candy Men
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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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 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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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
[edit]- Produced by Wesley Rose & Jim Vienneau
- Arranged by Bill McElhiney
- Bill Malloy - engineer
- Val Valentin - director of engineering
- Ace Lehman - cover design
References
[edit]- ^ The Orbison Way at AllMusic
- ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (5 March 1966). "Roy Orbison: The Orbison Way" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 260. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1062. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
- ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. October 30, 1965. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
- ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. January 15, 1966. p. 20. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's top pop albums : 1955-1996 : compiled from Billboard magazine's pop album charts, 1955-1996. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 580. ISBN 0898201179.
- ^ "Roy Orbison". Official Charts. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
- ^ Eder, Bruce. "Roy Orbison - The Orbison Way: Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2024-09-04.