Lonely and Blue is the first music album recorded by Roy Orbison

Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...

 for Monument Records

Monument Records

Monument Records was an American record label, Washington, D.C. named for the Washington Monument, founded in 1958, by Fred Foster and Buddy Deane . Buddy Deane soon left the company, and in the early 60's bought KOTN in Pine Bluff, Arkansas where he retired to until his death...

, released in 1961.

The track entitled "Come Back to Me (My Love)" features an almost identical intro to "Only the Lonely". In 1957, Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

 recorded a song of the same name for the album Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely is a studio LP by the American singer Frank Sinatra...

(not related to Orbison's recording).

Track listing

All tracks composed by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson

Joe Melson

Joe Melson , is an American singer and a BMI Award–winning songwriter.Melson was born in Bonham, the seat of Fannin County in northeast Texas. He was reared on a farm until he was sixteen. He attended high school in Gore, Oklahoma, and in Chicago before he returned to Texas to study at the two-year...

, except where indicated.

Side One

1. "Only the Lonely
   Only the Lonely
   "Only the Lonely " is a 1960 song written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson. Recorded by Orbison, it became his first major hit. As an operatic rock ballad, it was a sound unheard of at the time, described by the New York Times as expressing "a clenched, driven urgency". It is seen as a seminal event...
   
   "
2. "Bye Bye Love" (Felice & Boudleaux Bryant)
3. "Cry" (Churchill Kohlman
   Churchill Kohlman
   Churchill Kohlman was an African-American songwriter who wrote Johnnie Ray's 1951 hit, "Cry" while working in a Pittsburgh dry cleaning factory as the night watchman....
   
   )
4. "Blue Avenue"
5. "I Can't Stop Loving You
   I Can't Stop Loving You
   "I Can't Stop Loving You" is a popular song written and composed by country singer, songwriter and musician Don Gibson, who first recorded it on December 30, 1957, for RCA Victor Records...
   
   " (Don Gibson
   Don Gibson
   Donald Eugene "Don" Gibson was an American songwriter and country musician. A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson penned such country standards as "Sweet Dreams" and "I Can't Stop Loving You", and enjoyed a string of country hits from 1957 into the early 1970s.-Biography:Don Gibson was...
   
   )
6. "Come Back To Me (My Love)"

Side Two

1. "Blue Angel"
2. "Raindrops" (Melson)
3. "(I'd Be) A Legend In My Time" (Gibson)
4. "I'm Hurtin'"
5. "22 Days" (Gene Pitney
   Gene Pitney
   Eugene Francis Alan Pitney, known as Gene Pitney , was an American singer-songwriter, musician and sound engineer. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic and was among the group of early 1960s American acts who continued to enjoy hits after the...
   
   )
6. "I'll Say It's My Fault" (Orbison, Fred Foster
   Fred Foster
   Fred Foster is an American songwriter, record producer, and founder of Monument Records.-Biography:...
   
   )