It's Over (Roy Orbison song)

It's Over (Roy Orbison song)

Infobox Single
Name = It's Over


Cover size =
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Artist = Roy Orbison
from Album =
A-side =
B-side ="Indian Wedding"
Released =April 1964
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Label = Monument Records 837
Writer = Roy Orbison, Bill Dees
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Last single ="Pretty Paper"
(1963)
This single ="It's Over"
(1964)
Next single ="Oh, Pretty Woman"
(1964)
Misc =
"It's Over" is an American song composed by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees and sung by Orbison.

Released as a 45rpm single by Monument Records in 1964, "It's Over" typifies the operatic rock ballad. The song went to No. 9 on the Billboard pop music charts in the United States but to No. 1 on the United Kingdom Singles Chart.

The song also appears on Orbison's 1964 album with the title "More of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits" and his 1989 posthumous album "A Black & White Night Live" from the 1988 HBO television special.

"It's Over" was also recorded by both Bonnie Tyler with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra on her 2003 album, "Heart Strings", and Billy Mackenzie on the British Electric Foundation 1982 album Music of Quality and Distinction Volume One and was sung by Michael Caine in the 1998 film "Little Voice". The song was covered by Scott Walker on his 1970 album 'Til The Band Comes In.


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