Linda Ronstadt's "Blue Bayou" peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard charts in the latter part of 1977. The song remained on the charts for 23 weeks and became one of her most definitive chart classics.
However, the song was never intended to create the sense of melancholy it so deeply evokes. In fact, it was written to be a happy song.
In an interview with NME later reprinted by Songfacts, songwriter Roy Orbison, who co-wrote “Blue Bayou” with Joe Melson during a road trip, revealed the surprising truth behind the beloved hit.
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He concluded, "Now granted that it is a sad song, a lonely song, but it's a loneliness that precedes happiness. And I'm not sitting here trying to tell you that I don't sing lonely songs or anything like that."
In an interview with Pop Matters, Ronstadt recalled the first time she heard the now-classic Orbison/Melson song. “On that same night that I had the tape of Jackson [Browne] teaching me ‘Poor Poor Pitiful Me’, JD [Souther] taught me ‘Blue Bayou.'"
In fact, Linda Ronstadt loved the song so much she asked her father, Gilbert Ronstadt, to write Spanish lyrics for it. The song was then translated into "Lago Azul" and featured on her 1987 mariachi album, Canciones de mi Padre.
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