One of the Lonely Ones

One of the Lonely Ones is a posthumous Roy Orbison album which was released on December 4, 2015. It is his 24th and final studio album. Orbison recorded it in 1969. The album, which Orbison recorded surreptitiously in the aftermath of his wife Claudette's death in a motorcycle accident and the death of his two sons in a house fire 2 years later, was long believed lost.^[2]

One of the Lonely Ones
Studio album by Roy Orbison
Released	December 4, 2015 (2015-12-04)
Recorded	1969
Genre	Pop, rock and roll
Length	33:37
Label	Universal
Roy Orbison chronology
King of Hearts (1992) One of the Lonely Ones (2015)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

History

In the summer of 1968, Roy Orbison was touring the UK when he met his second wife Barbara Orbison at a nightclub in Leeds. On September 15, 1968, he got the news that his home had burned down and his two eldest sons had died. He took a break for the rest of 1968. On January 21, 1969, Orbison went into the studio to record an album related to the tragedy. After the death of his sons, he went into exile when he was scheduled to be promoting his then current album, Roy Orbison's Many Moods which was delayed to May 1969. Orbison recorded until March 19 so he could tour. After the tour was completed in July, he went back into the studio to record and finished this album on August 2. Because of contract disputes, MGM Records shelved One of the Lonely Ones, and it had remained unreleased and unheard until 2015. The album was thought to have been lost forever, but was discovered by Orbison's family.

Reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic's said the album showed "better than that record, because this contains a rare rocker in "Child Woman, Woman Child," along with an effective evocation of his classic Monument ballads in the title track, a nimble bit of country-psychedelia in "Give Up," a good bit of fuzz-colored schmaltz in "Little Girl (In the Big City)," and an effective reading of two Mickey Newbury songs ("Leaving Makes the Rain Come Down," "Sweet Memories")"^[1]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"You'll Never Walk Alone"	Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein II	2:07
2.	"Say No More"	Boudleaux Bryant	3:00
3.	"Leaving Makes the Rain Come Down"	Mickey Newbury	2:52
4.	"Sweet Memories"	Newbury	2:49
5.	"Laurie"	Roy Orbison Bill Dees	2:33
6.	"One of the Lonely Ones"	Orbison Dees	2:37

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Child Woman, Woman Child"	Orbison Dees	3:23
2.	"The Defector"	Orbison Dees Angie Morrow	2:04
3.	"Give Up"	Orbison Dees	3:07
4.	"Little Girl (In the Big City)"	Dees	3:07
5.	"After Tonight"	Sammy King	3:22
6.	"I Will Always"	Don Gibson	2:42
Total length:			33:37

Charts

Chart (2015)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[3]	40