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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.
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "It's So Easy" | Buddy Holly, Norman Petty | 2:27 |
| 2. | "Carmelita" | Warren Zevon | 3:07 |
| 3. | "Simple Man, Simple Dream" | J.D. Souther | 3:12 |
| 4. | "Sorrow Lives Here" | Eric Kaz | 2:57 |
| 5. | "I Never Will Marry" | Traditional | 3:12 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Blue Bayou" | Roy Orbison, Joe Melson | 3:57 |
| 2. | "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" | Warren Zevon | 3:42 |
| 3. | "Maybe I'm Right" | Waddy Wachtel | 3:05 |
| 4. | "Tumbling Dice" | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | 3:05 |
| 5. | "Old Paint" | Traditional | 3:05 |
| Total length: | 31:49 | ||