Crying/The Great Pretender/Love Hurts/She Wears My Ring/Wedding Day/Summer Song/Dance/Lana/Loneliness/Let's Make A Memory/Night Life/Running Scared
Crying was the second monument LP from Roy Orbison, and combines big hits, standards and some lesser known tracks. Includes two top ten singles, the paranoid Running Scared plus the overwrought title track. (US:21 UK:17)
“Embedded between the two hit singles Crying and Running Scared are smooth love ballads like the well-known Love Hurts and danceable pop tunes (Dance and Loneliness). And as almost always with Orbison, the melancholic atmosphere is floating over the whole song building.”
“The timbre of Roy Orbison's operatic like singing voice and impressive range, instantly commands your undivided attention and reeled you into an ethereal world of sound and vision unequalled by any other singer before or after him. The orchestra and band playing behind him complement his colourfully impacting and imposing instrument. Roy's voice painted the songs he chose to sing to memorable excellence. Nobody else could sing or sound like Roy, he was one of a kind.”
"Roy Orbison outshines most artists. His vocal range is outstanding and fresh today as in the 60s. This LP is a real treat because you have some of Roy's most impressive hits along with other songs that are not heard as often.”
"Orbison's second album for Monument followed the template of his debut, with several key singles leading an album full of decidedly lesser works. Which isn't to suggest that the album tracks are uninteresting; they simply don't match the magnificence of the hits.”
"Every thing about this album is brilliant - the singing, the backings, you could not ask for more."
"Displays the trademark early Orbison production flourishes, with swooping strings and full vocal choruses."
"With the exception of Love Hurts, the title track, and the epic hit Running Scared, most of the cuts lean toward the Big O's more sentimental side."
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