Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)
Roy Orbison
1960
Annual listening-list association, not an original-release-date field. Original release year reconciled with reviewed recording-specific Artist Essentials evidence in v3.6.
Release: 1960
Release: 1960Source checked
V3.6 reconciles the original release year with the reviewed Artist Essentials entry for this exact retained recording ID. Year precision is used; an album-first release is not silently replaced by a later single, reissue or annual-list year. Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.
The large badge identifies this listening list, not a newly issued recording. Later reissues and renewed chart popularity do not replace an original release date. How years are assigned.
The Monument Singles Collection - licensed recording program
The licensed original-single program supplies track identities and individual recording-year metadata for the selected Monument sides. The anthology itself is dated 2011. Album-inherited 1962 for Love Hurts is overridden by the explicit 1961 estate single history; incompatible 1989/2011 dates on other old tracks are not used.
The Monument Singles Collection - official original-master scope
The estate release announcement identifies the anthology as the original Monument mono single mixes from 1959-1966. It lists the original A and B sides and explicitly dates the original Oh, Pretty Woman single to 1964. The later concert DVD is separate.
Inspiration and background
Supplied note - not independently verified
This note came with the supplied collection and has not been independently verified.
Orbison and co-writer Joe Melson were inspired by Orbison's own feelings of loneliness and heartbreak.
Evidence scope: Source-provided note, not an established account of the songwriter's intent
Sources for this information
Owner-supplied 1960.html, song-list position 28
Supplied annotation reproduced with attribution; underlying historical claims have NOT been independently verified.
Other appearances and versions
catalog version unspecified
Original release date and exact pressing/version are not independently established.
An annual chart year and an original release date are different. Similar titles may be covers or different masters; no audio fingerprint has been performed.
Sources and scope
Source-backed annual association (secondary source; not a complete discographic review)
Editorial artist-repertoire classification
Billboard year-end 1960 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.
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1960-2025. Each year contains 150 selections.