Don McLean covered Roy Orbison's "Crying" with the same group you can hear on "Can't Help Falling in Love" and other Elvis Presley songs.

McLean’s remakes of two classic torch songs — Roy Orbison’s “Crying” and the Skyliners’ “Since I Don’t Have You” — returned him to the pop charts.

He’s the man who drove his Chevy to the levee, met a girl who sang the blues and sang dirges in the dark. Don McLean can still remember how that music makes him smile. As one of the country’s ...