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"Claudette" is a 1958 song which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart that year in a recording by the Everly Brothers. [1] It was the first notable success as a songwriter for Roy Orbison, who named it after his first wife. Orbison also recorded his own version of the song.
There Is Only One Roy Orbison is the seventh album recorded by Roy Orbison, and his first for MGM Records, released in July 1965. It features his studio recording of "Claudette", an Orbison-penned song which had become a hit for the Everly Brothers in 1958. Ironically, at the time he recorded the song in 1965, he had divorced his wife Claudette ...
By late 1964, Orbison had "occasionally treated himself to a groupie" [3]: p130 and his wife Claudette had had an affair with the builder Braxton Dixon, who had built Orbison's house. [ 3 ] : p121 After Roy became aware of the affair, he fired Dixon and finished building the house himself (with the help of a hired carpenter).
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.
A few weeks later, two of Orbison's three sons died in a house fire. Barbara and Orbison married on March 25, 1969, in Hendersonville, Tennessee. [3] They divided their time between Nashville, Tennessee, and Malibu, California, bringing up their two sons, Roy Kelton Orbison, Jr. (born 1970) and Alexander Orbi Orbison (born 1975). [4] [5] [6]
The exhibit at the Motown Museum features records, vintage articles and rare photos, including a snapshot of Claudette and Smokey Robinson's wedding.
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis were one of America's most beloved and widely recognized couples — but their marriage wasn't without scandal — even before they wed.
A former girlfriend of rocker Jim Morrison is speaking out on her time with the late Doors frontman — including an alleged instance of sexual assault.. Judy Huddleston is one of the many members ...