in dreams (song)

In Dreams is the title of a 1963 song composed and sung by American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performer, Roy Orbison. An operatic ballad of lost love, it was released as a 45rpm single on the Monument Records label. The song's opening line refers to "A candy-colored clown they call the Sandman tiptoes to my room every night." The Sandman, a reference to the character in the Hans Christian Andersen children's story who brings good sleep and dreams by sprinkling magic sand onto the sleeping. "In Dreams" also appears on Orbison's 1963 album with the same title of "In Dreams" and on his 1989 posthumous album A Black & White Night Live from the 1988 HBO television special. In 1988, songwriters Will Jennings and Richard Kerr wrote the response to "In Dreams" called "In The Real World" that Orbison would record for his Mystery Girl album. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine named "In Dreams" as one of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time." Orbison's song has been used in motion pictures including:

In Dreams (1999) directed by Neil Jordan
Blue Velvet (1986) directed by David Lynch

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