A candy-colored clown they call the sandman Tiptoes to my room every night Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper Go to sleep, everything is alright…
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.
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 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!
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.
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 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
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.
@@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.
@@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. 👍
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.
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] "
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.
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.
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 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!
"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. 👍
@@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.
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.
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!
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.
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
@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!
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...
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.
@@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
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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 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?)
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.
@@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” 😎
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.
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.
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.
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
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 🎙️😎
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).
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).
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.
“What kind of meditation do you do?”. (Barbara Orbitson, toward end of interview). I’ve been doing meditation for 10 years and I never thought that could be a concern? How could one who is not “transcendental” (whatever that is) be unable to be with one who is?
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 😍👄
"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