Happy Birthday Elvis!
Here’s a very young Roy Orbison doing a song that would be a huge hit for his friend The King, “TRYING TO GET TO YOU”-
“ROCKHOUSE/YOU’RE MY BABY” by Roy Orbison
“ROCKHOUSE/YOU’RE MY BABY” by Roy Orbison
Sun Records Single #251 was released this week in 1956-
Roy Orbison & The Teen Kings 7″ Vinyl Single “Rockhouse” and “You’re My Baby”
This 7″ Vinyl single was made possible by Third Man Records and SUN Studios!
Featuring “You’re My Baby,” a song written by Johnny Cash and “Rockhouse,” a song written by Roy Orbison & Harold Jenkins (AKA Conway Twitty).
Most likely recorded in June of 1956, “Rockhouse” is a prime example of quintessential, undiluted rockabilly. While Roy and the Teen Kings’ stint with Sun would be brief, the sheer power unleashed on these tracks is palpable.
Roy Orbison & Conway Twitty
Today we are remembering Roy Orbison’s friend and cowriter, Conway Twitty, who passed away on June 5, 1993.
The two were friends from early in their careers. Written by Roy Orbison and Harold Jenkins (Conway Twitty’s birth name) and recorded by Roy at Sun Records, “RockHouse” is a fun number from 1956 that became a standard with the early 1980’s Rockabilly Revival bands. To today’s ears, it has a prototypical rockabilly sound like you might hear on a tv show theme song or cartoon. But it was a pretty raunchy early rock song.
Here is Conway Twitty’s version of a song that Roy wrote with Joe Melson, “(I’m in a) BLUE, BLUE MOOD,” which was also recorded by Roy Orbison for his 1965 MGM album THERE IS ONLY ONE ROY ORBISON-
Congratulations Loretta Lynn & Jack White!
Congratulations Loretta Lynn & Jack White!
The two will join Roy Orbison with their own plaques on Nashville’s Music Mile on June 4th at the park’s grand re-opening. The event is open to the public.
White’s Third Man Records, also based in Nashville, offers four 7″ vinyl reissues of Roy Orbison’s Sun Records singles. CLICK HERE to check out “Rockhouse/You’re My Baby”!