Roy Orbison : For the Lonely - 18 Greatest Hits
Genre: Pop Rock	Dates: Late 50s - Mid 60s

The only singer Elvis Presley was scared to follow. This is over-the-top, heavily orchestrated pop music, but it's the perfect setting for The Big O to achingly articulate romantic paranoia, rejection, and unbridled lust, stuff to which today's teenagers can surely relate. They may even grow to love the arrangements themselves, which created some of the greatest vocal moments in '60s music: Roy's death-defying falsetto free-fall in "Only the Lonely," the note he nails to climax the Bolero-like "Running Scared," the feral growls of "Oh! Pretty Woman" and "Mean Women Blues," his weird, hushed recital of "Blue Bayou." And who could forget "In Dreams," lip-synched by '60s survivor Dean Stockwell in David Lynch's creepy Blue Velvet?

Playlist: 1. Ooby Dooby 2. Rockhouse 3. Uptown 4. Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel) 5. Blue Angel 6. I'm Hurtin' 7. Running Scared 8. Crying 9. Candy Man 10. Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) 11. Leah 12. Workin' For The Man 13. In Dreams 14. Mean Woman Blues 15. Blue Bayou 16. Pretty Paper 17. It's Over 18. Oh, Pretty Woman

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