:This article is about the Roy Orbison song/album. For the Disneyland restaurant see Blue Bayou Restaurant. The Blue Bayou is a New Orleans/Cajun-style restaurant located at Disneyland at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, and Tokyo Disneyland at the Tokyo Disney Resort, in Chiba, Japan. ...

"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 as the B-side to the rock song "Mean Woman Blues". 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). Ronstadt's interpretation has reported sales of over 7 million worldwide and was also popular in a Spanish-language version called "Lago Azul". Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988), nicknamed The Big O, was an influential American singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades. ... Joe Melson (born May, 1935), is an American singer and a BMI award winning songwriter. ... Linda Marie Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946 in Tucson, Arizona) is a popular vocalist with multiple Grammy Awards, numerous multi-platinum albums, an Emmy Award, a Tony Award nomination who has recorded over 30 studio albums and has made guest appearances on over 100 other albums. ... Illustration by Arthur Rackham of the ballad The Twa Corbies A ballad is a story, usually a narrative or poem, in a song. ... In music, a single is a short (usually ten minutes or less) record, usually featuring one or two tracks as A-side, often accompanied by several B-sides—usually remixes or other songs. ... Monument Records was a record label founded in 1958 by Fred Foster and Bob Moore. ... In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ... Mean Woman Blues is an American rock and roll song written by African American songwriter, Claude Demetrius. ... The RIAA Logo. ...

"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. An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... Roy Orbison - In Dreams In Dreams is a Roy Orbison 33 1/3 record album from Monument Records recorded at their studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee and released in 1963. ... A Black & White Night Live is a Roy Orbison music album made posthumously by Virgin Records from the HBO television broadcast, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. The album was released in 1989 and included the song Blue Bayou that because of time constraints had been deleted... For other uses, see HBO (disambiguation). ...

As proof of its durability, the song has been recorded by other artist in several languages including in the French language by France's Mireille Mathieu. French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... Mireille Mathieu (album) Mireille Mathieu (born July 22, 1946) is a French singer, who besides being very successful in her own country, became a star of international stature, recording in several languages. ...

This song has been used in several motion pictures including: For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as...

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