"Crying" is a 1961 country-tinged rock ballad by Roy Orbison, written with Joe Melson for Orbison's third studio album Crying (1962). The single, released in July 1961 on Monument Records with the B-side Candy Man, features a dramatic arrangement with strings and tympani that complements Orbison's expressive vocal. It climbed to number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Cash Box chart, and Billboard named it one of the top songs of 1961. The track later earned a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2002 and was ranked 69th on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2010. Notable personnel on the original recording include Bob Moore, Floyd Cramer, Buddy Harman, Scotty Moore, Harold Bradley and Boudleaux Bryant. Over the years Crying has been covered and reinterpreted, including Don McLean's UK number one version in 1980 and a Roy Orbison–k.d. lang duet for the Hiding Out soundtrack released in 1987 which charted in several countries.
