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Crying (song)
Crying is a 1961 American song written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson and sung by Orbison. An operatic rock ballad, the song was released as a 45rpm single by Monument Records in 1961 and went to No. 2 on the Billboard pop music charts.
The song also appears on Orbison's 1962 album with the title Crying and his 1989 posthumous album A Black & White Night Live from the 1988 HBO television special.
In 1987, Orbison rerecorded the song as a duet with k.d. lang as part of the soundtrack for the motion picture, "Hiding Out". Their collaboration would win the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. The song was also used as a Spanish language version in the 2001 motion picture "Mulholland Dr.".
In 2002, "Crying" would be honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine named it as one of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."
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