60s Classic Has REPUTATION of BEING The MOST IMMORAL HIT EVER—But It's FAKE NEWS!—Professor of Rock

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Coming up—we're powering up the time machine to go back to a year of classic songs that will hit you with a powerful dose of nostalgia, including Roy Orbison, who turned the voices in his head into one of his most haunting masterpieces, In Dreams. A tale of forbidden love, as June Carter falls for Johnny Cash and sparks conflict behind the music. Plus, the story of a mythical dragon named Puff that had everyone convinced was truly sinister, and the song Walk Like a Man that was recorded during a fire burning in the studio. And what happened when the Kingsmen, a scrappy band with no money, no fame, and no idea, recorded one of the most controversial—and iconic—songs of the Rock Era: Louie Louie… a song that has been under investigation by the government for decades…The countdown of the Top 10 Songs of ’a pivotal year is NEXT on Professor of Rock.

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Today, we fire up the time machine and head to a year of innocence and controversy. The year that we lost our beloved President and the year the Brits started invading the American charts…It’s 1963. Kicking off the countdown of the Top 10 Songs of ’63, it’s an artist who often heard music in his sleep, including his legendary hit “In Dreams,” coming in at #10:

Roy Orbison’s aching ballad has such a surreal vibe to it, it almost sounds like it is drifting in from an imaginary world, and I guess it kinda did. One night in late ’62, Roy awoke in the middle of the night with a full melody and story in his head. Most songwriters might scramble for a tape recorder or scribble down a few lines, but Roy didn’t need to. He got up, sat down with his nearby guitar, and in just 10 minutes, the entire song was finished. Music, lyrics, arrangement- all from a dream! That strange, cascading melody, the build-up to the soaring high notes, and the emotional gut punch of a man who finds love in his dreams, only to lose it when he wakes.

It was the purest expression of longing, and Roy delivered it with such operatic drama that it broke all the rules of pop structure. There was no conventional chorus… No repeated verse. Just a linear story, straight from the subconscious. Roy came up with the song almost entirely in that dream, even motivating a radio DJ to pre-announce it as a “new song by Elvis Presley.” In Roy’s dream, he saw a “candy colored clown,” which he cleverly tied into the folklore of the “sandman.” The character that tiptoes into your room at night, sprinkling stardust and whispering that “everything is going to be alright.”

The narrator falls asleep in a blissful dream state where he is with his lover, but when he wakes up, his lover…is gone. When Roy Orbison recorded “In Dreams”, backed by lush strings and The Candy Men, his vocal range pushed from a deep baritone up to a near falsetto—a stunning display that few singers could match. The song became a Top 10 hit, but it didn’t fully reveal its strange power until decades later. In 1986, director David Lynch resurrected “In Dreams” for a key scene in his cult classic Blue Velvet, where Dean Stockwell lip-syncs it in a nightmarish moment that reintroduced the song to a new generation. Roy wasn’t thrilled about how the song was used—but even he couldn’t deny that the dream had returned, hauntingly vivid as ever.