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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.
Barbara Orbison (January 10, 1950 – December 6, 2011) was a German-born United States–based entrepreneur, music producer and publisher, and the second wife of American musician Roy Orbison. Biography
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 ...
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.
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).
The B-side, "Claudette", was the first major song writing success for Roy Orbison (who also recorded his own version of the song) and was named after his first wife. [12] As a result of this success Orbison terminated his contract with Sun Records and affiliated himself with the Everly's publisher, Acuff-Rose Music.
Claudette Frady-Orbison (1941–1966), wife of legendary singer Roy Orbison. She died when her motorcycle was hit by a truck. She is buried with her two young boys, Roy Dewayne Orbison (1958–1968) and Anthony King Orbison (1962–1968), who died together in a house fire; Joe Moscheo (1937–2016), singer, The Imperials and Elvis backup
Claudette Frady-Orbison, 25, wife of singer Roy Orbison. She and her husband were riding on a motorcycle at Gallatin, Tennessee, when they were struck by a pickup truck, killing her and injuring him. [42] Ethel Clayton, 83, American silent film actress