DId you Roy Orbison released a song detailing a lonely business man's suicide and peoples reaction?

[llorando]

Roy Orbison's Southbound Jericho Parkway, was released in April of 1969, and depicts a lonely lonely business man suicide and peoples reaction to it. Southbound Jericho Parkway was released several months after Roy lost two of his three sons in a house fire, and was intended to originally be roughly 3 minuets long, but Roy convinced the song writer (Bobby Bond) to finish the story which resulted in the song being almost 7 minuets long, Roy's longest. To me it's interesting that a song depicting suicide was released in the 60's let alone from an artist not know for these types of songs.

"At twenty after seven, Monday after New Year's
Mr. Henry Johnson leaned against the pedal
Aimed his Lincoln steady
And drove himself into a wall"

[Chazmatazz269]

Nope. Few people will know because generally people don’t care about men’s misery.
Here’s a truth bomb for you: males commit suicide four times more often than females. Still we spend the majority of resources on drawing attention to women’s mental health and preventing their suicides. Males represent the majority of homeless by roughly two to one. Yet there are no shelters just for men and in most places, if a man does get a space he has to give it up if a woman has need for it. Of the top ten terminal health concerns women face, men die at higher rates of nine of them. Yet we spend almost four times as much raising awareness of women’s health and researching treatments for women.
Though frequently and thoroughly debunked, feminists still prattle on about the “wage gap”. What is very real is that the vast majority of on the job injuries and deaths are men. Yet nobody wants to talk about that, least of all the feminists who claim to want “equality”.
Men are the disposable sex, but we pander endlessly to women’s perceived victimization in lieu of the facts. For a more thorough examination of this and other similar facts, read “The Myth of Male Power” by Warren Farrell.

[NathanDavis]

now I know... you're my only source of Roy Orbison news... lol

[sage2021]

No, sorry I've never heard it.