Linda Ronstadt Version
| "Blue Bayou" | ||||
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German 7" single |
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| Single by Linda Ronstadt | ||||
| from the album Simple Dreams | ||||
| B-side | Old Paint or Poor Poor Pitiful Me | |||
| Released | August 23, 1977 (August 23, 1977) | |||
| Format | 7" vinyl | |||
| Genre | Country Rock, Light Rock | |||
| Length | 3:57 | |||
| Label | Asylum | |||
| Writer(s) | Roy Orbison Joe Melson |
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| Producer | Peter Asher | |||
| Linda Ronstadt singles chronology | ||||
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Linda Ronstadt took the song to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in late 1977 – as well as #2 Country and #3 Easy Listening. The single was RIAA certified Gold (for sales of over 1 million US copies) in January 1978. It was Ronstadt's first of three Gold singles. Don Henley of the Eagles sang backup on the recording. "Blue Bayou" was later certified Platinum (for over 2 million copies sold in the United States). It was a worldwide smash and was also popular in a Spanish-language version called "Lago Azul".
Ronstadt later performed the song on an episode of The Muppet Show.
Because of this song, Dickson's Baseball Dictionary records that a "Linda Ronstadt" is a synonym for a fastball, a pitch that "blew by you."
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