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"Blue Bayou" is a song written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson. It was originally sung and recorded by Orbison, who had an international hit with his version in 1963. It later became Linda Ronstadt's signature song, with which she scored a Top 5 hit with her cover in 1977. Many others have since recorded the song.
In 1970, Linda Ronstadt released the song as a single and on the album Silk Purse. [1] The single spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 25, [2] while reaching No. 15 on Canada's "RPM 100" (her first single there), [3] No. 8 on Canada's CHUM 30 chart, [4] and No. 20 on Billboard ' s Easy Listening chart.
Many artists had recorded it, from Percy Sledge to the Flying Burrito Brothers and Aretha Franklin by the time it found its way to Ronstadt's first chart-topping album, 1974's "Heart Like a Wheel."
Simple Dreams is the eighth studio album by the American singer Linda Ronstadt, released in 1977 by Asylum Records.It includes several of her best-known songs, including her cover of the Rolling Stones song "Tumbling Dice" (featured in the film FM) and her version of the Roy Orbison song "Blue Bayou", which earned her a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year.
The 1970 release "Long, Long Time" was her first solo charting single. Her 1974 single " You're No Good " topped the US Hot 100 , reached number seven in Canada and number 15 in Australia. Its B-side song " I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You) " reached number two on the US Hot Country Songs list.
Mariska Hargitay sang the Linda Ronstadt hit "Blue Bayou" to Broadway legend and "Law & Order: SVU" guest star Betty Buckley.
A track off Ronstadt's sophomore record, "Silk Purse," the song was released as a single in 1970 and spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at No.25.. After the third episode of ...
Luisa Espinel, Ronstadt's aunt, was an international singer in the 1920s and 1930s. Espinel's father was Fred Ronstadt, Linda Ronstadt's grandfather, and the songs she had learned, transcribed, and published were some of the ones he had brought with him from Sonora. Ronstadt researched and extracted from the favorites she had learned from her ...