Playing through some songs at home one day working with songwriter and collaborator Bill Dees, Roy Orbison noticed his wife Claudette Frady getting ready to go out to buy something in town.

While Roy Orbison passed from this life into the next on Dec. 6, 1988, his music lives on in the great American songbook of rock ‘n’ roll hits. What sets Orbison apart from many of his ...

He won Top New Male Vocalist from ... of Hee Haw as one of the Hee Haw Honeys. Roy Orbison was an American singer, songwriter ...