Dream Baby

Uh, anyway, we're gonna be playing Roy Orbison when we come back.

Uh, Roy Orbison's Dream Baby from 1962.

All right, we get to take a little break.

We will be right back.

It's all about dreams.

All right, we'll be right back.

[upbeat music] Sweet dream baby.

Sweet dream baby.

His fortune sank so low to play to a mostly empty concert, one which was on his 40th birthday at Cincinnati Gardens in April 1976.

Although several covers of his songs, such as Love Hurts by Emmylou Harris and Graham Parsons, and Only the Lonely by Sonny Jones and Dream Baby by Glen Campbell.

They were moderately successful on the charts, but nothing from Roy, unfortunately.

Now, Greatest Hits album in 1976 actually reached number one in the UK, which is a bit of a return to fortune for him.

I don't know what they were thinking there.

1962, Dream Baby, 4, 2 and 2, Working for the Man and Back with Leah, 33 in the US.

Fusion Australia, number 1 in Australia and 50 in the UK.

And 1963 had a pretty big year in Dream, 7, 1 and 6.

So instead of using a falsetto voice to reach it, people with musical knowledge would understand what I'm saying here, but I'm not quite sure.

He sang the high A naturally, and that dumbfounded all around him, and that was the final take of the song because it was such a monumental achievement.

Now, that was his first number one in the U.S. now crying followed coupled with candy man and by the end of 1961 he'd had six hits in a row his backing group on dream baby was a group called the webs they changed their name to the candy men and became his backing group until 1967 in the interim here they actually met a fellow by the name of bob dylan in may 1962 at dylan's 21st so they became good friends you've got to remember the British invasions were starting to occur at this stage but from 1959 to 63 he was the top selling American artist and he was asked to replace Dwayne Eddy on a tour of the UK and the top billing was with the Beatles and that sold out in one afternoon but the story goes that on arrival he realised he was not the main act and he asked what's a Beatle and he was tapped on the shoulder by John Lennon who said I am.

It's an interesting little story.