Vinyl Album - Roy Orbison - Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits - Monument

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Roy Orbison
Title:	Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits
Label:	Monument
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	MLP-8000
Date:	Jan 1963
Format:	Mono LP (also Stereo LP)
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	23 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Roy Orbison	The Crowd	Orbison, Melson	Rate
A2	Roy Orbison	Love Star	Walker	Rate
A3	Roy Orbison	Crying	Orbison, Melson	Rate
A4	Roy Orbison	Evergreen	Tanner	Rate
A5	Roy Orbison	Running Scared	Orbison, Melson	Rate
A6	Roy Orbison	Mama	Orbison, Melson	Rate
B1	Roy Orbison	Candy Man	Ross, Neil	Rate
B2	Roy Orbison	Only The Lonely	Orbison, Melson	Rate
B3	Roy Orbison	Dream Baby	Walker	Rate
B4	Roy Orbison	Blue Angel	Orbison, Melson	Rate
B5	Roy Orbison	Uptown	Orbison, Melson	Rate
B6	Roy Orbison	I'm Hurtin'	Orbison, Melson	Rate

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Vance Lewis 27th May 2023		Review In the S.F. Bay Area, KYA AM 1260 debuted Crying on August 7, 1961 at #55 on their Swingin' 60. Candy Man was added the following week making the record a double-sided hit. Crying was the more played of the two. In mid-October the single peaked at #5. On November 13, Candy Man was swapped with Crying as the the more played side. The single remained on the chart until December 25 for a total of 20 weeks, quite unusual for a record in the early 60s. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Wackywecords 8th Feb 2023		Added another label variation



Bgray1 6th Sep 2017		Fourth set of label variants added.



George Slv 11th Aug 2016		Didn't Monument use black labels in the early 1960s, like Canada? This looks like a later reissue.



George Slv 14th Apr 2016		Review A few words about the music. Only The Lonely his first big hit in 1960. Followup Blue Angel sold about one third the copies. Followup I'm Hurting sold one third of that. It was diminishing returns similar to his first three regional singles on Sun. Then Running Scared hit it out of the park, and they could say The Big O had "arrived". Uptown came before Only The Lonely and had small chart success. The fifth hit was Crying / Candy Man. I must say I never heard Crying locally, only Candy Man as the hit. A case of leaving to the market to decide which side was the hit. Next Dream Baby became a hit over the power ballad The Actress. The Crowd was another good ballad, which has been ignored since then amid all the hits. I think Evergreen and Love Star were only released overseas. This brings us to summer 1962. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Vinyl Fan 22nd Oct 2015		Added a front and back cover variation fmc, label scans # 863703 and 863704 came in this jacket I've added. I not sure when this was issued, not sure if it's later or before cover images shown at top. This an updated comment from the previous one I had made earlier in the week.



Vinyl Fan 17th Oct 2015		Added label scan fmc with label layout variation and Hendersonville Tenn. language on bottom rim of label.



Boursin 18th Apr 2015		Discogs is wrong, for maybe the hundredth thousandth time. Billboard's mono LP chart listed this as 8000 starting from the issue dated 2 February 1963. (8009 is Jerry Byrd's Byrd Of Paradise, released November 1963.)



Trainman 22nd Oct 2014		Discogs shows MLP8009 a being a 1967 issue. The original 1962 issue was M-4009



Vinyl Fan 18th Sep 2014		Added different back cover image and different label layout images fmc.

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Linked Releases

USA - Monument - 1962 [Mono]

USA - Monument - 1963 [Stereo]

Australia - Universal Record Club - 1966 [Stereo]

UK - Monument - 1967 [Mono]

UK - Monument - 1967 [Stereo]

UK - Monument - 1977 [Stereo]