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Can you remember hearing other Roy Orbison songs on your favorite TV shows recently? Here’s “MAMA” by Roy Orbison (1962), from the Monument Records era. This song was used in HBO’s hitEastbound and Down just last year!

“SHAHDAROBA” by Roy Orbison (1963) This song appeared on Roy’s “IN DREAMS” album under Monument Records, written by Cindy Walker. You may remember seeing it on AMC TV’s original series, Mad Men, in season 3!

This Friday, February 22, Roy will be honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award at the University of North Texas! Read more in the link below. Read here!

Here’s a Spanish ditty from The Fastest Guitar Alive, “Pistolero!”

“THE FASTEST GUITAR ALIVE” (1967) This was Roy Orbison’s only feature film role – as Johnny Banner, owner of a guitar that can twang a chord and riff bullets. Roy’s character poses a purveyor of a Snake Oil Elixir to…