Blue Bayou

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This article is about the Roy Orbison song/album. For the Disneyland restaurant see Blue Bayou Restaurant.

Blue Bayou is the title of a song written by Americans Roy Orbison and Joe Melson and sung by Orbison. A ballad, it was released as a 45rpm single on the Monument Records label in August 1963 as the B-side to the rock song, Mean Woman Blues.

"Blue Bayou" also appears on Orbison's 1963 album, In Dreams and his 1989 posthumous album A Black & White Night Live from the 1988 HBO television special.

The song would later be recorded by several others including Linda Ronstadt and in the French language by France's Mireille Mathieu.

This song has been used in several motion pictures including:

• Man on Fire (2004)
• Dreamcatcher (2003)
• Last Orders (2001)
• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) starring David Bowie