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TIL Roy Orbison's I Drove All Night wasn't released until years after his death, for a Super Mario World-themed compilation album called Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin' promoting childhood literacy in memory of a talent agent who died in a helicopter crash with Stevie Ray Vaughan

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