Australian singles charts:
Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel) entered the Kent charts on 16 July 1960 and peaked at #5. It was #38 on the Top 100 of 1960.
Album:
The song is on Roy Orbison’s 1961 album Lonely and Blue.
Songwriters:
Roy Orbison, Joe Melson
Producer:
Fred Foster
Record label of Australian release:
London
Songfacts:
Roy Orbison wrote this with his songwriting partner Joe Melson, but intended to offer the song to either Elvis Presley or the Everly Brothers (who had already recorded Orbison’s song Claudette). The Everly Brothers persuaded Orbison that he should cut it himself.
Orbison recorded this song in RCA Studio B with the elite session musicians known as “The Nashville A Team.” Bob Moore, who was the bass player, did the arrangement.
The song was subtitled Know the Way I Feel to avoid confusion with another song called Only The Lonely, which Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen had written for Frank Sinatra in 1958.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/roy-orbison/only-the-lonely-know-the-way-i-feel
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