Simple Dreams

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Simple Dreams
Studio album by Linda Ronstadt
Released	September 6, 1977 (1977-09-06)
Recorded	May 23–July 22, 1977
Studio	Sound Factory (Hollywood)
Genre	Rock, country rock, folk rock
Length	31:49
Label	Asylum
Producer	Peter Asher
Linda Ronstadt chronology
Greatest Hits (1976) Simple Dreams (1977) Living in the USA (1978)
Singles from Simple Dreams
"Blue Bayou" Released: August 23, 1977 "It's So Easy" Released: September 1977 "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" Released: January 1978 "Tumbling Dice" Released: April 1978 "I Never Will Marry" Released: April 1978

Simple Dreams is the eighth studio album by the American singer Linda Ronstadt, released in 1977 by Asylum Records. It includes several of her best-known songs, including her cover of the Rolling Stones song "Tumbling Dice" (featured in the film FM) and her version of the Roy Orbison song "Blue Bayou", which earned her a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year. The album also contains covers of the Buddy Holly song "It's So Easy!" (a top-5 hit) and the Warren Zevon songs "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" (another top-40 hit) and "Carmelita".

The album was the best-selling studio album of her career, and at the time was the second best-selling album by a female artist (behind only Carole King's Tapestry). It was her first album since Don't Cry Now without long-time musical collaborator Andrew Gold, though it features several of the other Laurel Canyon-based session musicians who appeared on her prior albums, including guitarists Dan Dugmore and Waddy Wachtel, bassist Kenny Edwards, and producer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Asher.