In Dreams by Roy Orbison

In Dreams, Roy Orbison's fourth studio album, came out on Monument in July 1963, cut at RCA Studio B in Nashville with Fred Foster producing and built around the title single, which had already climbed to number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. That song is Orbison through and through, a dark ballad that shifts shape section by section until that enormous voice breaks open at the top, and Rolling Stone later placed it at 319 on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

Dreams run right through the record, with his versions of "All I Have to Do Is Dream", "Dream" and "My Prayer" sitting alongside "Blue Bayou", which gave him a number three hit in Britain. The British took to the whole album, keeping it on their chart for 58 weeks with a peak at number six; in America it reached 35 on the Billboard LP chart.

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