Crying

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Written by: Joe Melson, Orbison
Produced by: Fred Foster
Released: Aug. '61 on Monument
Charts: 16 weeks
Top spot: No. 2

Orbison said the song came about after an encounter with an old flame: "Whether I was physically crying or just crying inside is the same thing." His near-operatic performance built to a note that Orbison never lost the capacity to hit. "He sounded like he was singing from an Olympian mountaintop and he meant business," Bob Dylan wrote in Chronicles. "He was now singing his compositions in three or four octaves that made you want to drive your car over a cliff. He sang like a professional criminal."

Appears on: For the Lonely: 18 Greatest Hits (Rhino)

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