About this song
- "Crying" is a song written by American singer, songwriter, and guitarist Roy Orbison and Joe Melson for Orbison's third studio album of the same name (1962). Released in 1961, it was a number-two hit in the United States for Orbison and was covered in 1978 by Don McLean, whose version reached number one in the United Kingdom in 1980. Orbison later re-recorded the song as a duet with Canadian singer-songwriter k. — wikipedia