The soundtrack is composed entirely of songs previously recorded and released by Patsy Cline.

For half of the song selections, including Walkin' After Midnight, Bradley combined Cline's original vocal tracks with new orchestrations recorded at his own Bradley's Barn studio in Mount Juliet, Tennessee in 1984.

[3][2] The lead single from the soundtrack, "Sweet Dreams", a song that had been a big hit for Cline in 1963, was released to promote the album and film.

David Hepworth in Q Magazine described the album as "a more than reasonable introduction to Cline's work".

In April 1987, Sweet Dreams was certified Gold by the RIAA for shipments of over 500,000 copies in the United States.