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The Music of Roy Orbison

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The Music of Roy Orbison game quiz
"Roy Orbison is one of the best loved and best remembered singers from the '60s. See if you remember his music as well as you thought you did. Singing the songs will help."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Name the only Roy Orbison song that was number one in the US and UK from reading these lyrics.

"If that's the way it must be, okay,
I guess I'll go on home, it's late"
    Blue Bayou
    Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
    In Dreams
    Oh, Pretty Woman


2. Roy Orbison, unlike many singers, used his real name as his stage name. What was his middle name?
    Kelton
    Hardin
    Weedon
    Eugene


3. Identify the title of Roy Orbison's first US Billboard number one hit from these words:

"Then all at once he was standing there
So sure of himself, his head in the air"
    Candy Man
    Crying
    Blue Angel
    Running Scared


4. Find the title of this song, which was Roy Orbison's second UK number one, from these lyrics:

"All the rainbows in the sky
Start to weep then say goodbye"
    Falling
    The Crowd
    It's Over
    Workin' for the Man


5. Roy Orbison recorded this song for an album in 1960, but someone else had a trans-Atlantic number one with it in 1962. Can you get the title from these lyrics?

"Those happy hours that we once knew
Though long ago, still make me blue"
    Bye-Bye Love
    I Can't Stop Loving You
    Blue Avenue
    Cry


6. This song was the first UK number one for Roy Orbison. Read these lyrics to get the title.

"There goes my baby, there goes my heart
They're gone forever, so far apart"
    I'm Hurtin'
    Up Town
    Mean Woman Blues
    Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)


7. We are supposed to be happy at this time of year. Guess what the song is from these lyrics:

"There he sits all alone on the sidewalk
Hoping that you won't pass him by"
    Pretty Paper
    Goodnight
    (Say) You're My Girl
    Ride Away


8. Who had a hit record with a song that Roy Orbison wrote about his first wife? He named the song after her as well. These lyrics may help:

"I'm gonna be so happy for the rest of my life
When my brand new baby is my brand new wife"
    Chad and Jeremy
    The Righteous Brothers
    The Everly Brothers
    Peter and Gordon


9. Name the song that returned Roy Orbison to the top ten in the US and UK in the late '80s, from these words:

"Every time I look into your lovely eyes
I see a love that money just can't buy"
    I Got It
    You Got It
    We Got It
    He's Got It


10. What was the nickname Roy Orbison had while he was a member of super group The Traveling Wiburys during the recording of their first album?
    Lefty Wilbury
    Otis Wilbury
    Nelson Wilbury
    Lucky Wilbury


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Compiled May 23 13