1) SUN RECORDINGS

Roy Orbison Mono and Unprocessed Volume 1: Original Releases 1956-62
Several CD features the Sun recordings, but unfortunately many of them mix released and unreleased material. This essential collection features the original mono releases from Roy Orbison's catalogue from 1956 to 1962. It includes only two of the many unreleased tracks from the period: demos of Cat Called Domino and Claudette - because these really should have been released. It also contains the full original mono content of the Lonely and Blue and Crying albums.

Disc 1: Trying To Get To You (Je-wel Single) – Ooby Dooby (Sun Single) – Go Go Go – This Kind of Love (Dubbed) – You're Gonna Cry (Dubbed) – Rock House (Single) – You're My Baby (Single) – Sweet and Easy To Love (Single) – Devil Doll – Cat Called Domino (Clovis) – Mean Little Mama (Dubbed) – Problem Child (Dubbed) – Claudette (With Band) – Seems To Me (RCA Single) – Almost Eighteen (RCA Single) – Jolie (RCA Single B Side) – Paper Boy (Monument) – With the Bug (Monument) – Pretty One – Uptown – Come Back To Me My Love – Only the Lonely – Here Comes That Song Again – A Legend In My Time – I'll Say It s My Fault – Blue Angel – Today's Teardrops – I Can't Stop Loving You – I'm Hurtin' – Blue Avenue – Cry – Twenty Two Days (Lonely & Blue Version) – Bye Bye Love – Raindrops ; Disc 2: Running Scared – Love Hurts – Crying – Candy Man – She Wears My Ring – Nite Life (Crying Version) – The Great Pretender – Dance (Crying Version) – Wedding Day – Let's Make a Memory – Lana – Summer Song – Loneliness – Love Star – Dream Baby – The Actress – Evergreen – The Crowd – Mama – Working For The Man – Leah – Sweet and Innocent (RCA Single B Side) – I Like Love (Sun Single) – Chicken Hearted (Sun Single) – I Never Knew (Dubbed) – It's Too Late (Dubbed) – Trying To Get To You (Sun Dubbed) – Ooby Dooby (Sun Dubbed) – Rock House (Dubbed) – You're My Baby (Dubbed) – Sweet and Easy To Love (Dubbed) – Ooby Dooby (Je-wel Single B Side).

16 Biggest Hits
It's the best CD to discover and appreciate Roy Orbison in all it's glory.  Many compilations of the Monument recordings exist, but this one captures the essential and is truly a reference.

Tracks: Only the Lonely – Blue Angel – I'm Hurtin' – Running Scared – Crying – Candy Man – Dram Baby (How Long I Must Dream) – The Crowd – Leah – Working for the Man – In Dreams – Falling – Mean Woman Blues – Blue Bayou – It's Over – Oh, Pretty Woman.

The Singles Collection 1965-1973
This CD offers almost all the A-Sides that Roy Orbison recorded during his MGM contract.  It's the better way to discover this less succesfull and unkown period of Orbison career.  A period of Orbison life that was ponctuated by the loss of his wife Claudette in a moto accident and the loss of two of his childrens in the fire of his house few years later.

Tracks: Ride Away – Crawling Back – Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart – Twinkle Toes – Too Soo To Know – Communication Breakdown – So Good – Cry Softly Lonely One – She – Born to Be Loved by You – Walk On – Heartache – Southbound Jericho Parkway – Penny Arcade – She Cheats on Me – So Young – (Love Me Like You Did) Last Night – God Love You – Remember the Good – Memphis, Tennessee – Blue Rain (Coming Down) – I Wanna Live.

Mystery Girl
Released in 1989, in the months after his death, this original album was Orbison highest-charting album of his career.  It's Roy Orbison at his very best, a true comeback album. 

Tracks: You Got It – In the Real World – (All I Can Do Is) Dream You – A Love So Beautiful – California Blue – She's A Mystery To Me – The Comedians – The Only One – Windsurfer – Careless Heart.

King of Hearts
This posthumous release contains some 80's non-LP singles and demo that where completed for this album.  It's an excellent follow-up to Mystery Girl that features the amazing duet "Crying" recorded with k.d. lang.

Tracks: You're The One [with k.d. lang] – HeartBreak Radio – We'll Take the Night – Crying [duet with k.d. lang] – After the Love Has Gone – Love in Time – I Drove All Night – Wild Hearts – Coming Home – Careless Heart [Original Demo].

A Black & White Night [CD & DVD]
It's the best-recorded Roy Orbison live disc ever issued.  At 51, Roy is vocally in exceptional shape, he's happy and he's with all his friends.  It's so wonderfull that this magical event has been captured like this!

Tracks: Only the Lonely – Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) – Blue Bayou – The Comedians – Ooby Dooby – Leah – Running Scared – Uptown – In Dreams – Crying – Candy Man – Go, Go, Go (Down the Line) – Mean Woman Blues – (All I Can Do Is) Dream You – Claudette – It's Over – Oh, Pretty Woman.

Combo Concert - 1965 Holland
Keep it simple: it's the ONLY live quality recording known to date that captures Roy Orbison essence from the 60's.  Soooo Great: RRROARRRR!!! :-)

Tracks: Only the Lonely – Running Scared –Crying – What'd I Say – Dream Baby – Mean Woman Blues – It's Over – Oh, Pretty Woman – Goodnight – Crying [*] – Dream Baby [*] – Blue Bayou [*] – Mean Woman [*] – Oh, Pretty Woman [*].  * Recorded at the Paris Olympia, 1965.