Thirty years ago tomorrow, Roy Orbison's final studio album, Mystery Girl, was released approximately two months after Orbison's untimely death. Mystery Girl would be Orbison's best-selling and highest-charting album, hitting #5 on the Billboard album charts and going platinum in the U.S., UK, and Canada.
The album spawned Orbison's ninth Top 10 song in the U.S. -- "You Got It," a song Orbison co-wrote with his fellow Travelling Wilburys, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne (who also played on the song). "You Got It" was Orbison's first Top 40 song since "Ride Away" in 1965 and his first Top 10 song since "Oh, Pretty Woman" hit #1 in 1964.
"You Got It" went to #9 on the Billboard Hot 100, but the success of the song was not limited to America, as the song landed in the Top 10 on the charts in 13 other countries. The song harkens back to the songs that made him famous in the '60s -- "Crying," "In Dreams," "Running Scared," "Oh, Pretty Woman," and the like. It's as if he wanted to give the world one last masterpiece to remember him by. Not that he was planning on dying of a heart attack at age 52 less than two months before this song was released.
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