Blue Bayou

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“Blue Bayou”

Single by Roy Orbison
from the album In Dreams

B-side

"Mean Woman Blues"

Released

August 1963

Label

Monument 824

Writer(s)

Roy Orbison, Joe Melson

Roy Orbison singles chronology

"Falling"
(1963)

"Blue Bayou"
(1963)

"Pretty Paper"
(1963)

This article is about the Roy Orbison song. For the Disneyland restaurant see Blue Bayou Restaurant.

"Blue Bayou" is the title of a song written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson and sung by Orbison and also made popular by vocalist Linda Ronstadt. A ballad, it was released as a 45rpm single on the Monument Records label in August 1963 (b/w the rock song "Mean Woman Blues")^[1].

In 1977, Ronstadt took the song to #3 on the Billboard pop chart and the single was RIAA certified platinum (over 1 million US copies sold). It was also popular in a Spanish-language version called "Lago Azul".

"Blue Bayou" also appears on Orbison's 1963 album, In Dreams and his 1989 posthumous album A Black & White Night Live from the 1988 HBO television special.

As proof of its durability, the song has been recorded by other artists in many languages, including in the French language by France's Mireille Mathieu.

The song was also recorded by Australian A Cappella Group Idea of North

This song has been used in several motion pictures including: