'Only The Lonely' is a musical based on the life of which singer?
Only the Lonely Only the Lonely "Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)" is a 1960 song written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson. Orbison's recording of the song, produced by Fred Foster for Monument Records, was the first major hit for the singer. It was described by "The New York Times" as expressing "a clenched, driven urgency". Released as a 45 rpm single by Monument Records in May 1960, "Only the Lonely" went to No. 2 on the United States "Billboard" pop music charts on 25 July 1960 (blocked by Brenda Lee's "I'm Sorry") and No. 14 on the "Billboard" R&B
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the début novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia. The title comes from the poem "The Lonely Hunter" by the Scottish poet William Sharp, who used the pseudonym "Fiona MacLeod": "Deep in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still, But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a