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Fact #101897

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Short story:

It's Over by Roy Orbison enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No9.

Full article:

Bill Dees (co-writer) : I met up with him when he was about to go to England. He heard a song I'd written called It's Over At Last, and he wanted to use (sings) 'It's Over, It's Over, It's Over. We then wrote the whole song from scratch, but he did most of the writing. He was brilliant when he got started as he knew exactly where he wanted to go.

It was the biggest there had ever been in Nashville to that time. There were 36 musicians in Bob Moore's Orchestra. This book (Alan Clayson's Only The Lonely) says I was singing on the flipside, Indian