214K views · 10K reactions | Elvis was indisputably the most influential performer in the history of rock & roll but his roots were in country music, In fact, Presley's first No. 1 hit single was a country release, "I Forgot to Remember to Forget," which reached the top of Billboard's country chart on Feb. 25, 1956 and is the most traditionally country sounding record that Presley ever cut . Around the same time he had signed with RCA and the rest is history | Stone Cold Country | Facebook

On this day in Rock and Roll History - March 25, 1960 Roy Orbison records "Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel)" at RCA Victor's Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. When it is released on Monument Records the following May, the record will become Orbison's first of twenty-three major hits, reaching #2 on the Hot 100, #14 on the Billboard R&B chart, and #1 in the UK. Earlier in the year, Orbison and the song's lyricist, Joe Melson, tried to sell it to Elvis Presley and The Everly Brothers, who bot