I read once that Roy Orbison actually dreamt the lyrics to 'In Dreams' - and that the dream woke him up. He immediately wrote them down and added the melody to create the song. The dream had special meaning to him and is in my opinion one of Orbison's best and most beautiful songs.

@AbrasiousProductions

2 жыл бұрын

wow.. a song about dreams originating from a dream. god rules.

@Thoracius

2 жыл бұрын

I believe it’s just the intro and the ending “it’s too bad that all these things...” that he dreamed.

My favourite scene in blue velvet. Dennis Hopper is a genius

@djetm

3 жыл бұрын

Its pretty unforgettable.

@MHDebidour

2 жыл бұрын

And Dean Stockwell too !

@frankpatyi3295

2 жыл бұрын

The man was clear in his mind but his soul was mad

@hball6695

2 жыл бұрын

no matter how many times I watch Blue Velvet Dennis Hopper scares the s*** out of me every time...

@oniongummy8969

2 жыл бұрын

I think the mask thing was spontaneous and not to the credit of Lynch; rather, Hopper showed up with it and Lynch loved it.

Dean Stockwell so good in Blue Velvet and so many other roles.Not flashy but be was a true professional who made the movie the star and not himself.RIP Mr.Stockwell

@rowley555

2 жыл бұрын

Dean Stockwell was so wonderfully bizarre in Blue Velvet....genius....may he RIP

@michaelgove9349

2 жыл бұрын

@@rowley555 Despite his quite striking face, it took me the longest time before I realised Al in Quantum Leap was the same guy as Ben in Blue Velvet. Inhabits the role!

@oniongummy8969

2 жыл бұрын

He ain’t dead, just quantum leaping

@ARIZJOE

2 жыл бұрын

I had a chance to meet him 7 years later while a student at Pepperdine Law. I could kick myself for not taking the opportunity.

@fazbell

2 жыл бұрын

ONLY David Lynch could conceive of a role for Dean Stockwell as a gay thug.

If 'Good Vibrations' is a pocket symphony, 'In Dreams' is a pocket opera. My favorite Roy Orbison song. Sheer genius.

@flaviasu

Жыл бұрын

Perfect comment

@PaulLevinson

11 ай бұрын

Brilliant observation -- I agree 100%!

@louiecosgrove_music

9 ай бұрын

That is such a valid comment

@chantaltaille7391

8 ай бұрын

Tout à fait d accord, cet air m a fascinée à la seconde même entendue comme le premier regard de l Homme Aimé !.... C est fulgurant ou jamais. MERCIIii Félicitations Monsieur, votre avis est aussi le mien Respect et Admiration et Prières d AMOUR 💕❤️

I love David Lynch and Roy Orbison!

@Clandsom

3 жыл бұрын

The exact comment I was going to Wright.

@andreasfahlen4936

2 жыл бұрын

And pabst blue ribbon

@andreasfahlen4936

2 жыл бұрын

@jaye see haha 👍

@SFforlife

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Definitely not Heineken..

My little girl, before she could walk, was crawling on the carpet in front of the stereo when I put his greatest hits in and 'In Dreams' came on. She just froze when the vocals started. Froze. And stayed frozen right until... the music all came in right after... "I close my..." Bump ba ba bump bump... And she just started rocking forward and back at that moment and kept going. This was about 1990 so we didn't have insta-recording devices always in hand. It was such a beautiful thing to watch.

@cadicamo8720

5 күн бұрын

I'm imagining your baby girl doing that. Beautiful.

David Lynch meditates with Roy Orbison! Man, to catch even a whif of the talent in that room and let it seep in.

@AnnaLVajda

2 жыл бұрын

Lynch can make anything creepier he has a gift.

@landonhatcher9904

Жыл бұрын

I hate to take away from this because hard work is so important, but if we’re being realistic, some people are more talented than others out of the gate, and these people often get farther with the same amount of hard work as someone less talented. People like Lynch and Orbison are both very talented and very hard working.

I loved Blue Velvet, but maybe the best thing is that it spawned a revival of Roy Orbison. And in glad he got to enjoy that before he died. Seeing the guys in the Willburys show such deference to him was heartwarming

@DeflatingAtheism

2 жыл бұрын

It took 30 years before "You Got It" smacked me upside the head. It's a glorious '60s "wall of sound" production that just so happens to have been released in the late '80s.

I like David Lynch movies. I love Roy Orbison music, his voice is magical.

In Dreams is my favorite song. Of course I first became aware of it when I saw Blue Velvet! One strange thing about the song is it does not have a chorus. It just keeps going and changing. But it's so perfect it somehow still works as a pop song. Probably the most perfect song I have heard as well as my favorite.

@RJ1999x

2 жыл бұрын

Crying👍

@mikearchibald744

2 жыл бұрын

A LOT of Roys songs didn't have verses, because he says he got many of his songs literally 'in his dreams'. This is from wikopedia "Like many of Orbison's songs, "In Dreams" rejects the verse-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus structure of the majority of rock and roll fare. Instead it mirrors the procession of falling asleep and becoming immersed in an elusive fantasy.[11] It begins like a lullaby with minimal acoustic guitar strums, with Orbison introducing the listener to "A candy-colored clown they call the sandman" half-spoken and half-sung in a Sprechgesang fashion common in operas and other musical theater performances.[6] The sandman puts him to sleep, where he begins singing about dreams of his lover. Drums pick up the rhythm to follow Orbison's lyrics further into subconsciousness, and a piano joins as the lyrics recount how Orbison spends time with her, accompanied by breathy backup singers. Orchestra strings counter his melody that has the effect of representing a singing voice in themselves.[12] Using a five- to eight-note range, Orbison's voice rises as he wakes up to find his lover gone. The song trips; the music stops and a staccato tattoo replaces it, as he cries when remembering she has left him. The climax is a powerful crescendo as he cries "It's too bad that all these things / Can only happen in my dreams", and the resolution follows his voice from falsetto to the final note an octave below as he sings "Only in dreams / In beautiful dreams", as all the instruments and singers conclude with him abruptly.[12] The song never repeats a section. In two minutes and forty-eight seconds, it goes through seven movements with distinct melodies and chord progressions. The first two sections are sixteen bars each; the rest are only eight bars. In comparison to the standard form of pop songs in AABA - where A represents a standard verse, and B represents a variation, usually referred to as the bridge - "In Dreams", with each variation, can be represented as Intro-A-B-C-D-E-F.[6] "

@RJ1999x

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikearchibald744 ditto

@Thoracius

2 жыл бұрын

A song that does not repeat parts is called “through-composed.”

@mikearchibald744

2 жыл бұрын

@@Thoracius A lot of the old Genesis stuff is like that, no chorus at all.

David Lynch never disappoints. He seems like a truly sweet man. Answered the questions and gave a great unexpected little story.

It is always great to see a man who has a lot of fans going all fanboy himself.

In Dreams has always been my favorite Roy Orbison song. It has 3 or 4 different melodies effortlessly transitioning through the song.

@davidmckenzie420

2 жыл бұрын

7 different parts, no repeats. Also my favorite Roy song.

@RJ1999x

2 жыл бұрын

Crying

@napsahtava

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidmckenzie420 Thank you, David. I was about to remark on the song's rather unusual structure, but you beat me to it. I can't think of another song like it. Like a series of ascending plateaus.

@michaelgove9349

2 жыл бұрын

@@napsahtava This struck me after seeing Blue Velvet for the first time. It was the only pop song I could think of that has no callbacks to an earlier section. But I thought well, there must be some others. Now it's years later, and I still haven't found one. Maybe I'll write one. 👍

@napsahtava

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelgove9349 Absolutely you should! That's a great impetus for writing a song.

I'm sure that, in a parallel universe, David Lynch directed a Roy Orbison biopic starring Kyle MacLachlan.

I played guitar in a cover band that did In Dreams, Crying, and Blue Bayou. Great tunes that required awesome vocals, which we were lucky enough to have.

Blue Velvet is a movie you can't stop watching. Draws you in deep. And Frank Booth was the ultimate, evil bastard.

I think with "In Dreams" - using it the way you did (David Lynch) in this setting. Made the song last even longer that it would be originally.

What a charming story...warmed my heart.

Brilliant use of the song. The serendipitous, wonderful art of David Lynch. Also, after David remastered "In Dreams." for the movie, Roy rerecorded all of his greatest hits. His voice still strong, they were better than the originals on the greatest hits album. Highly recommended. A few years after they met, Roy passed away. Thank goodness David Lynch brought Roy back to prominence.

@hyena131

2 жыл бұрын

Arizjoe Can I submit your post to Private Eye's Pseuds Corner? The "serendipitous, wonderful art of David Lynch" puts lynch himself to shame! Thank you in advance.

@ARIZJOE

2 жыл бұрын

@@hyena131 If you would like. If it leads to a cup of coffee with David, so much the better.

@hyena131

2 жыл бұрын

@@ARIZJOE You just ruined it all with rather bad grammar (been at the drink...??), but your sober: "The serendipitous, wonderful art of David Lynch" will always be treasured. Any more gems? You can do it!

@michaelgove9349

2 жыл бұрын

"Thank goodness David Lynch brought Roy back to prominence." Did for me. I got into David Lynch when I found Eraserhead, then set about finding his other work. When I got to Blue Velvet and heard "In Dreams" then I set about finding Roy Orbison's other work. Crying, Only the Lonely, Leah, I Drove All Night. The haunted high ground of US pop. 👍

@AHHHHHHHHHHHHl

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelgove9349If you haven't yet, you should give "The Actress" a listen, I just heard it recently from the compilation album "The Soul of Rock and Roll" containing 107 of his well-known and obscure songs, and some demos.

Roy Orbison is the GOAT. Even "the King" Elvis Presley was in awe of Roy Orbison and his voice. He is the Caruso of Rock and Roll.

Love them both...and I've got personalized signed pictures and letters from both of them. RIP, Mr. Orbison. ❤

I can't now think of this track without thinking of Lynch meditating with the Orbisons.

My grandparents always listened to Roy Orbison but after seeing it in Blue Velvet I associate it now with that scene. It's hard to unsee.

@Johnlindsey289

2 жыл бұрын

How do you feel about pulp fiction using Neil diamonds girl you’ll be a woman soon song associated with Uma Thurman sniffing heroine and overdosing?

I think what strikes me most about the ‘In Dreams’ sequence from Blue Velvet is that there’s nothing explicitly surreal or strange about the scene. Sure it’s a strange scene and everything feels just kinda “off” and uncomfy but it’s not Lynch’s signature surrealism. And yet, despite all that, the entire scene is just so bafflingly bizarre and surreal. It might be the closest anyone has ever come to depicting what it feels like to have a dream. In any art form ever.

@e11esounds

2 жыл бұрын

I agree I think Lynch has come the closest to depicting what dreams *feel* like, perhaps what they even look like. BV has never spoken to me, not my favourite Lynch work at all, but after watching this, like the great Roy Orbinson I'm going to give it another go!

@stevennieto9898

7 ай бұрын

I like when she enters the scene from the room.

Listening to Lynch light up talking about meeting Roy is everything😀

What a wonderful story!

I once watched every episode of twin peaks, and every film David Lynch ever made back to back without sleep.... I don't remember it, I just know I did it

This interview was SO cool. Especially the part about Lynch, Roy, and his wife meditating together.

I was in to transcendental meditation when I was 19-20. I didn't stay with it but this story is cool that Lynch got to meditate with the great Roy Orbison.

love that Lynch bubble...Roy,David and Kyle 😍

I know this interview is about blue velvet, but I’m glad Mulholland Drive was mentioned. I just love Rebekah Del Rio’s cover Llorando of the Roy Orbison’s classic song. Amazing voice, amazing song.

@Arthur101

2 жыл бұрын

@@kenchawkin4379 Thanks Ken for your response. I assumed the song was just about a lost lover, I did not know both Roy and Rebekah lost a child. I can’t imagine the pain of losing a child. Nothing could be worse. This explains the amazing intensity of her voice. Tears comes to me, from what you told me and thinking of the song which I have on my phone. Thanks again, Arthur

I really really wish I could meet Roy Orbison too. My father also. My father told me: He (Orbison) - has a better voice than Elvis!

@joleerinehardt2676

3 жыл бұрын

I agree/

@amandacantcometothephone

2 жыл бұрын

lol even elvis said he had a better voice than elvis

@djetm

2 жыл бұрын

@@amandacantcometothephone Yes, I think he said something like: When Roy is in town, he is the king

@amandacantcometothephone

2 жыл бұрын

@@djetm i like that, its nice to see artists appreciate each other especially when the media works so hard to pit them against each other

@animalanimal1417

2 жыл бұрын

he was way better than elvis. he was real.

This is incredible. I play that song while I write my supernatural novel

roy prbison wrote many many songs about dreams and dreaming including a very sad and tragic one called "in the real world"

I’ve been a Roy fan since 88 at age six and I saw blue velvet at age 14 on video and one of my favorite movies of 86

I just love this man! He is so inspiring!

Lynchs movies have great soundtracks, Lost Highway my personal fav.

first time i ever heard him speak, haha, he sounds exactly like an fbi agent, COOP

@Vingul

2 жыл бұрын

You've probably heard him as Gordon Cole before then..?

@wheelmanstan

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vingul WHAT?

@Vingul

2 жыл бұрын

@@wheelmanstan WHAT THE HELL?

@wheelmanstan

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vingul IS THAT YOU AGENT COOPER?

@guidosman9218

2 жыл бұрын

@@wheelmanstan lol

Can you imagine Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch would wrote and produced an album for Roy Orbison? Sadly Roy died at age of 52 soon to early.

Great story, thanks David

"The Guilty" is another great movie where they play "Crying" in an amazing unforgettable scene.

IN DREAMS by Roy Orbison ... BLUE VELVET by David Lynch .... two icons and two iconic works ...

Great story. Thank you for the upload.

wish I could have met him and told him Thank you this describes how I feel about those I no longer have with me

In dreams roy orbison is a great song

Wow that’s so cool about meditating with Roy

Beautiful. Nice upload!

Brilliant clip... In Dreams, defines my greatest woe... However, I differ in relation. I consider myself hunted...and forever cursed..!! It only comes once or twice a moon...yet it's been nearly three decades now... Like in the song, I get to loose her all over again...and it rips open the womb again, never to heal...

He’s like the holler povarotti. His voice is just a natural wonder

Legends ❤️

There are NO repeating parts in In Dreams.

I was a kid in the early 1960's when Bobby Vinton and Roy Orbison were stars. It was very disturbing to watch Blue Velvet and hear those compositions in the context of the film. I know that's what Lynch wanted, but Vinton and Orbison reflected the innocence of that era.

@Johnlindsey289

2 жыл бұрын

How do you feel about Tarantino using the song stuck in the middle with you for the torture in reservoir dogs or Comanche by the Revels used for the gay rape/finding a weapon scene in pulp fiction or Neil diamond’s girl you’ll be a woman soon song associated with Uma Thurman sniffing heroine instead of cocaine as her nose bleeds and gets teary eyes as she overdoses?

I really love this!

@FRAME INTO FOCUS These are amazing! I just watched the Coffee Break video. Where are they from?? I am amazed that there is an endless well of David Lynch......just when you thought you'd seen everything!

Wow. Two quirky American geniuses synergize.

Roy Orbison is a superstar

@Johnlindsey289

2 жыл бұрын

He was indeed

Nicolas Winding Refn described that each of his films is a different genre of music. I think it was something like Pusher was grunge, Valhalla Rising was heavy metal, and Drive was REM

The structure of the scene in Blue Velvet and official video to "Walk On" seems similar. Singer on stage in a sense (sound stage, surrounded by curtains) viewed by others, with then the arrival of a woman, at which time one of the protagonists (not the singer in Blue velvet unfortunately) feels a sense of shame or guilt or some negative emotion. The way that the lady walks in in Blue Velvet also reminds me of the way that Sadako arrives, or walks, in the climax of "Ringu" the Japanese horror movie where Sadako arrives out of a TV set.

Its almost as if Lynch's entire output is based on / influenced by that song...well the idea of dreams and dream-dimensions anyway.

Just goes to show how some things are meant to be

Lynch isnt just a director, hes a film creator.

@mrlevinielsen

2 жыл бұрын

@@tr7938 do you people just not like him all of a sudden?

@Johnlindsey289

2 жыл бұрын

A talented filmmaker

Gotta admit, having watched Blue Velvet (one of my favorite) hearing "In Dreams" creeps me out now.

@ARIZJOE

2 жыл бұрын

I can understand. But "In Dreams" was yearning, pathos, surrealistic even before the film, the essence of Mr. Roy Orbison, just a really different person and a wonderful artist.

@Johnlindsey289

2 жыл бұрын

How do you feel about Comanche by Revels now associated with Bruce Willis getting a weapon and want to go medieval on the guys raping marscellus?

@rb5519

2 жыл бұрын

@@Johnlindsey289 I actually don't remember the song. I just played Comanche and it doesn't connect me to the movie. (I take it you're talking about Pulp Fiction?)

@Johnlindsey289

2 жыл бұрын

Yes pulp fiction

The only way to deascribe the voice of Roy Orbison is, it's like a drug once you have tasted his magical voice you are hooked.

@oliverfrench467

2 жыл бұрын

I saw someone describe him once as sounding like an angel falling backwards out of an upstairs window. Not a bad description!

@violinmke

2 жыл бұрын

I saw him live in the 80's . He could hit all those 60's high notes effortlessly live as well.

@AHHHHHHHHHHHHl

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I'm currently obsessed with The Actress, Crying, Falling, In Dreams, It's Over, It Takes All Kinds of People, My Prayer, Only Alive, Running Scared, Sunset, Unchained Melody, and Walk On. His soft low singing slowly building up to loud operatic belting always gives me goosebumps.

@jackiemaxwell2684

3 ай бұрын

@@oliverfrench467yes that was an interview with Dwight Yoakum. Cool how he admired Roy and said he had the “ voice of an angel falling backwards out of an upstairs window” 😎

The story I always heard was Roy Orbison hated the way In Dreams was used in Blue Velvet until the royalty checks started rolling in then he didn't mind so much.

@robkunkel8833

2 жыл бұрын

It was a kind of a creepy song as it was presented in the movie. That’s probably why he hated it in the movie, at first. And yes, then the checks rolled in. Time to re-think it.

@Johnlindsey289

2 жыл бұрын

It’s no different than how the lead guitarist of the revels band back in 95 was offended by how Comanche was used in pulp fiction was used for the scene of sodomy and he said that Tarantino needs to be in a hospital. Well Tarantino and lynch brought songs to a new audience

In dreams I have David's hair.

Beer at Ben's.

what a cool fucking story

I knew the song before I saw the movie Blue velvet. I feel like me and lynch has similar music tastes

@Johnlindsey289

Жыл бұрын

Me too, i heard my mom and grandma's albums in the year Roy died in 1988 when i was 6 and i saw this movie on video at 14 known as Blue Velvet after hearing about it in movie review books and magazines and internet.

@drumbottle

Жыл бұрын

Lynch also likes Rammstein, do you?

'I got to meditate with the great Roy Orbison.'

He’s genius that’s all.

*_CANDY COLORED CLOWN!!!_*

Very cool!

@Johnlindsey289

2 жыл бұрын

Lynch has good taste in music

Wow!!!! Now that is cool

He is the bartender on the Cleveland show..lololol

We live inside a dream...but who is the dreamer?

Hopper sums up the patriarchal society we live under at the very end of this clip. Absolutely disgusting character, so well played. A modern Thénardier, (commonly known as Monsieur Thénardier and Madame Thénardier, are fictional characters, and the secondary antagonists in Victor Hugo's Les Miserable).

Well, Roy is a Texan, so I imagine he was Texas Friendly.

Introduced me to Roy Orbison

To think he was going to use Crying instead. Anyone who's seen Only Fools and Horses cannot hear that song without laughing! 🤣 Think it would have been a very different film to have Dean Stockwell miming to that! 😂 I think he made the right choice going with In Dreams myself 🎙️😎

@baggyboy5930

2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what crossed my mind as well! "Cwwwywwwyeeewwyyyeewwiinng"!

@valentina47734

Жыл бұрын

Well, he did use Crying in Mulholland Drive, only in Spanish version which is one of the most haunting songs ever

I thought this was wonderful to hear his explanation. Something I noticed was he spoke of Roy in “present tense”. Unless I heard wrong, Mr Lynch didn’t speak of Roy as “was” a good person.

It's all good.

Candy colored clown I call the sandman

Scary scary film

How did he know Robin is from Floriduh? Psychic or just has come to know the name of a hyper fan?

Everyone dreams of having perfect hair singing like Roy O.

@jimmypea2207

2 жыл бұрын

...with Raybans on. Don't be buried without them.

@snapfinger1

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimmypea2207 I wouldn’t dream of it

In Dreams is my favorite Roy Orbison song

@Johnlindsey289

2 жыл бұрын

My second fave

cool

Blue Velvet was the type of movie that you either hated it or loved it. All of my brothers and I loved the music and Dennis Hopper. We thought it was a genius film. Our girlfriends hated it.

@conspiracytherapist2473

7 ай бұрын

Reality bites and the truth about how the the world works cannot be handled. Jack told you that in a few good men.

This movie made this song feel like it's about abuse.

RoBiN

The oddest thing to me about David is how much his voice sounds like General Patton. (his voice wasn't like George Scott, it was more like David Lynch's).

2 🐐 ♂️!

Is David Lynch from Utah? His voice has that particular cadence they use there.

@jameswebb8273

2 жыл бұрын

Missoula, Montana.

This is so interesting to watch almost 40 years after seeing BV. I remember living in Podunk Turlock and going to San Francisco with my gay friend Rod to see Blue Velvet on Castro. Early 80’s and we we mesmerized by the film. It became my favorite film until Pulp Fiction came along. Isabella’s lips filling the big screen was everything 😍👄

@mrsoft7022

2 жыл бұрын

Got to mention your friend is gay for extra edge to your story...

@ARIZJOE

2 жыл бұрын

"Pulp Fiction" features several sociopaths who are unrealistic. I grew up with people who talked like Frank Booth. I was Jeffrey Beaumont. "Blue Velvet" 1986

@baggyboy5930

2 жыл бұрын

Nice comment, but somehow I can't help but imagine Kevin Spacey saying your second sentence as Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects!

Beep Beep

I hope you found President Roosevelt

Where did you find this????????

Am I the only one laughing about Roy Orbison watching a movie?

don't like that ad in the middle of the screen at the end

Was Orbison an albino?

@jameswebb8273

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely not ... nor was he blind, as many think (just didn't like strong light). He had dishwasher-coloured hair and so darkened it up.

@andriealinsangao613

2 жыл бұрын

@@jameswebb8273 And also had stage fright.