Blue Angel (song)

"Blue Angel"
Single by Roy Orbison
from the album Lonely and Blue
B-side"Today's Teardrops"
PublishedSeptember 19, 1960 (1960-09-19) Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc.[1]
ReleasedAugust 1960 (1960-08)
RecordedAugust 8, 1960[2]
StudioRCA Victor Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee
GenrePop rock
Length2:43
LabelMonument
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Fred Foster
Roy Orbison singles chronology
"Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)"
(1960)
"Blue Angel"
(1960)
"I'm Hurtin'"
(1960)

"Blue Angel" is a song by Roy Orbison, released as a single in August 1960. Released as the follow-up to the international hit "Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)", "Blue Angel" peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and number eleven on the UK's Record Retailer Top 50.[3][4]

  1. ^ Library of Congress. Copyright Office. (1960). Catalog of Copyright Entries 1960 Music July-Dec 3D Ser Vol 14 Pt 5. United States Copyright Office. U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
  2. ^ Orbison, Roy Jr. (2017). The Authorized Roy Orbison. Orbison, Wesley,, Orbison, Alex,, Slate, Jeff (First ed.). New York: Center Street. ISBN 9781478976547. OCLC 1017566749.
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