
And the expression in "Running Scared" is one of stomach-churning fear. Like good opera singers, Orbison uses all of his vocal tools to express the text. His voice - from baritonal lows to ethereal, mezzo-soprano highs - is huge in its rage but intimate in size, with a fluttery but controlled vibrato. Actually, opera and Orbison have more in common than you might think.

1 hit "Running Scared" (from 1961) than in many dramatic opera arias.

There's more frightening intensity in Roy Orbison's No.
