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West Texas Singer Soars To Stardom
T EXAS History
The Number 1 single on the pop-music chart for the week ending Jun. 11, 1961 was “Running Scared” by the West Texas balladeer Elvis Presley once called “the greatest singer in the world.”
The year was 1936 and the place was Vernon just this side of the Red River. Orbie Lee and Nadine Orbison welcomed the newest addition to their working-class family, a boy they named Roy…
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