Roy Orbison - In Dreams

The title track of Roy's third album, 'In Dreams' is another song with a quirky structure that showcases Orbison's unique multi-octave singing voice.

It went top ten in the UK and US in 1963 (Roy was touring with the Beatles at the time), and is recognised as maybe his very greatest moment.

A tale of a man put to sleep by the sandman who dreams of his beloved ("In dreams you're mine all of the time"), appropriately enough the song came to Orbison in his sleep, and he woke up wrote it up in just 20 minutes.

(warning: some very fruity language)

Blue velvet (1986) - 'In Dreams' [HD]

Without Roy's knowledge or permission, 'In Dreams' was used by David Lynch with stunning effect in his 1986 film Blue Velvet, when Dennis Hopper's psychopathic Frank Booth demands Dean Stockwell "perform" (actually lip-synch) 'Candy Coloured Clown' over and over.

"It is a beautiful song and it was written by Roy," Lynch said later. Those lyrics, that feel meant something to him. And it just so happened that a song in a certain situation could mean something else."

While he was taken aback by how his song was used, the high profile placing of the track in such a major release was one of the things that helped bring The Big O to a new audience and re-start his career shortly before his tragic death.