#SongLyricSunday-Blue Bayou-February 7

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This week our host Jim Adams for Song Lyric Sunday has given us the prompt of Colors. The goal is to find a song that contains a title or lyrics involving colors.

Take some time to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this music challenge, and even better, read as many of them as you are able to as you will probably find many enjoyable songs and it is quite possibly that you will learn a thing or two.  

Here are the “rules”:
• Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video, or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

There were so many songs that touch on colors I thought about. The list included “Paint It Black’, “Little Red Corvette”, and ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale”. Yet I kept hearing Linda Ronstadt‘s rendition of “Blue Bayou” and that is the song I selected.

“Blue Bayou” was written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson. Joe Melson songwriting was no slouch he had two songs included in BMI’s Top 100 Songs of the Century:  Crying and of course Blue Bayou.

Blue Bayou was originally sung and recorded by Orbison, on his legendary 1963 album In Dreams I actually cued this album up and had it playing while writing this post. It later became Linda Ronstadt’s signature song, with which she scored a Top 5 hit with her cover in 1977. Linda Ronstadt actually came to dislike the song but that is a post for another day.

Here are the lyrics:

As I have done in past weeks posting two videos. The first is Roy Orbison singing the song in 1973 before Linda Ronstadt had covered it.

The second video is of Linda Ronstadt

I don’t care which version you think is the best because you voted for talent in either case.

Hope your week includes “Going to be with some of your friends, maybe you’ll feel better again, on Blue Bayou”

Next week the prompt will be “Brain/Mind/Think”