For those who want more, The Legendary Roy Orbison gives a better overall account, but as a four-CD set is a lot more expensive All-Time Greatest Hits gives a somewhat fuller account of the Monument years (and all of his Monument albums were available individually as well) and the out-of-print MGM best-of covers the music from the years following his departure from Monument. One gets only a somewhat sketchy overview of Orbison's developing talent, ignoring the years between his Sun and Monument recordings, but that's usually the purpose of a greatest-hits collection anyway. The sound is impeccable, as is the choice of material (which was not difficult to assemble). It was the first compilation to include both Orbison's early successes on Sun Records along with his early-'60s hits for Monument Records and, thus, was as definitive as most casual fans needed it to be. Appearing as it did just a few months before Roy Orbison's death, this single CD best-of was incredibly fortuitous for Rhino Records.
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