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Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson is a tribute album

Tribute album

A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist.There...

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 MGM Records

MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946, for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films. Later it became a pop label, lasting into the 1970s...

. It is a collection of songs written by Country Music Hall of Fame singer/songwriter 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...

who, like Orbison, often wrote about the loneness and sorrow that love can bring.

The album was released in January 1967.

Track listing

All songs written by Don Gibson

Don Gibson

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Side one

"(I'd Be) A Legend In My Time" (The album jacket and record label reads "(I'd Be) A Legend In Time".)
"(Yes) I'm Hurting"
"The Same Street"
"Far, Far Away"
"Big Hearted Me"
"Sweet Dreams"

Side two

"Oh, Such A Stranger"
"Blue, Blue Day"
"What About Me?"
"Give Myself A Party"
"Too Soon To Know"
"Lonesome Number One"

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