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Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson
Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson is a tribute album recorded by Roy Orbison for MGM Records, and his tenth studio album overall. Released in January 1967, it is a collection of songs written by Country Music Hall of Fame singer/songwriter Don Gibson who, like Orbison, often wrote about the loneliness and sorrow that love can bring. Its one single, "Too Soon to Know", became a smash hit in the UK, reaching #3 there in September 1966, and also reached
the album ""), Waylon Jennings, B. B. King, Timi Yuro, and Frank Ifield, among others.
Roy Orbison covered the track for his 1961 album "Lonely and Blue", and recorded a second later version which was featured on his 1967 tribute album to Gibson, "Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson". A 1973 rendition by Sammy Davis Jr. became an Adult Contemporary charts, reaching #33 in Canada and #29 U.S.
The song was recorded by Ronnie Milsap and released in November 1974 as the