The Teen Kings

It seems difficult to believe at this late date, but there is a chapter in the musical life of the late Roy Orbison that's hardly ever been mentioned or discussed -- an eight-year musical relationship that yielded recordings and newspaper recognition, at least in Wink and Denton, TX, and numerous radio and television appearances, as well as getting him notice by Sam Phillips and signed to Sun Records. That chapter was the Teen Kings, Orbison's first musical outlet and his first attempt at doing something that might matter in music. Indeed, the Teen Kings' history predates the ...