Big Dreamers Never Sleep

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Big Dreamers Never Sleep
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Studio album by
Gino Vannelli
ReleasedFebruary 1987 [1]
StudioBlue Moon Studio, Los Angeles
Genre Pop rock
Length38:49
Label HME, CBS, Polydor (Canada)
Producer Gino Vannelli, Joe Vannelli, Ross Vannelli
Gino Vannelli chronology
Black Cars
(1985)		Big Dreamers Never Sleep
(1987)		 Inconsolable Man
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992)Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Hartford Courant Unfavourable [1]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Big Dreamers Never Sleep is the ninth studio album by Gino Vannelli, released in 1987. Produced like his previous work with his brothers Joe and Ross, the album was his most successful internationally but a failure in the United States where it became his lowest-charting album since his debut Crazy Life failed to dent the Top 200. [4]

Contents

Background

Vannelli at this point in his career was coming off a mixed period, whereby the album Twisted Heart was recorded but no label would release it, [5] followed by a label shift and 1985's Black Cars . Black Cars did not equal the chart success of his earlier A&M albums, and following that album's release Vannelli did not tour and moved from his native Canada to Los Angeles, [6] where he would record his second album for the label.

Big Dreamers Never Sleep was released in North America at the close of winter 1987 and later that year internationally.

After the album further diminished his commercial standing in the United States – despite unprecedented success in Europe and Australia with the single "Wild Horses" – Vannelli did tour not to play music, but to inform children about the problems of illicit drugs. [7] Excluding a few performances in late 1987 after he won a Juno Award for "Wild Horses", [8] he would not return to live concerts until after his next album Inconsolable Man. [9]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."In the Name of Money"Roy Freeland/Gino Vannelli/Joe Vannelli/Ross Vannelli3:54
2."Time Out"Jimmy Haslip/G. Vannelli/J. Vannelli/R. Vannelli4:35
3."Wild Horses"Freeland/G. Vannelli4:38
4."Young Lover"Freeland/G. Vannelli3:22
5."Down with Me"Freeland/G. Vannelli4:24
6."Persona Non Grata"Freeland/G. Vannelli4:16
7."Something Tells Me"Freeland/G. Vannelli4:20
8."Shape Me Like a Man"Freeland/G. Vannelli4:49
9."King for a Day"Freeland/G. Vannelli4:31
Total length:38:49

Charts

Chart (1987)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [10] 31
Canada (RPM) [11] 18
Finland (Official Finnish Charts) [12] 40
Italy (Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana) [13] 15
Netherlands (Dutch Charts) [14] 31
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [15] 11
US Billboard 200 [4] 160

References

  1. 1 2 "Gino Vannelli – Big Dreamers Never Sleep". Records. Hartford Courant . February 26, 1987. p. 5.
  2. ↑ Evans, Paul. "Gino Vannelli". In DeCurtis, Anthony; George-Warren, Holly; Henke, James (eds.). The Rolling Stone Album Guide – Completely New Reviews: Every Essential Album, Every Essential Artist. pp. 733–734. ISBN   0679737294.
  3. ↑ Griggs, Tim. Gino Vannelli – Big Dreamers Never Sleep: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  4. 1 2 "US Albums". Billboard . Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  5. ↑ Bumgardner, Ed (March 7, 1987). "From the Ashes – After a Few Tough Years, Gino Vannelli Tries to Return His Career to Its Previous Heights". Entertainment Week. Winston-Salem Journal . pp. 4, 5.
  6. ↑ Halverson, Jim (March 28, 1987). "Debut Album Puts Hipsway at Head of the Pack". The Sault Star . Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. p. 7.
  7. ↑ "Gino Vannelli on Tour to Warn Kids of Drugs". The Toronto Star . July 7, 1987. p. E1.
  8. ↑ Krewen, Nick (October 30, 1987). "Gino on the Junos". The Hamilton Spectator . The Spectator. pp. B1, B2.
  9. ↑ "Vannelli Returns to Concert Stage". Saint John Times Globe. Saint John, New Brunswick. The Canadian Press. November 7, 1990. p. C15.
  10. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 320. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  11. ↑ "Gino Vannelli – Big Dreamers Never Sleep" (PDF). RPM .
  12. ↑ "Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1961" (in Finnish). Sisältää Hitin - Suomen listalevyt (Timo Pennanen).
  13. ↑ "Gino Vannelli – Big Dreamers Never Sleep" (in Italian). FIMI.
  14. ↑ "Dutch Albums". dutchcharts.nl.
  15. ↑ "Swedish Albums". swedishcharts.com.
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