The Classic Roy Orbison

The Classic Roy Orbison
Studio album by Roy Orbison
Released	July 1966
Recorded	October 1, 1965 – May 16, 1966
Genre	Rock
Length	27:58
Label	MGM
Producer	Wesley Rose, Jim Vienneau
Roy Orbison chronology
The Orbison Way (1966) The Classic Roy Orbison (1966) Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson (1967)

The Classic Roy Orbison is the ninth studio album recorded by Roy Orbison, and his third on the MGM Records label, released in July 1966. The single taken from it, "Twinkle Toes", would be Orbison's last US top-forty single during his lifetime, scraping in at #39. It also reached #24 in Australia and #29 in the UK.

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Billboard	Spotlight Pick
New Record Mirror

History

Some of the songs were leftovers from The Orbison Way sessions.

Reception

Bruce Eder of Allmusic felt that "Every song was cast in a familiar, classic Orbison vein, without any of the country piano sounds that showed a digression on recent releases, and most of it -- especially "Just Another Name for Rock and Roll" -- had a beat, this is stripped-down, back-to-basics Orbison", calling the album "the best album be ever did for the label"

Billboard described the album as "one of his best album of dynamic Orbison perfromances"

Record Mirror called it "a well balanced dramatic perfromances"

Track listing

The album reached No. 12 in the UK. All tracks composed by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees, except where indicated.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"You'll Never Be Sixteen Again"	2:50
2.	"Pantomime"	2:53
3.	"Twinkle Toes"	2:37
4.	"Losing You"	2:43
5.	"City Life"	2:47
6.	"Wait"	2:17

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Growing Up"		2:46
2.	"Where Is Tomorrow"		2:45
3.	"(No) I'll Never Get Over You"	Orbison	2:10
4.	"Going Back to Gloria"		2:46
5.	"Just Another Name for Rock and Roll"	Bill Dees	2:09
6.	"Never Love Again"	Rusty Kershaw, Doug Kershaw	2:10

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