Crying in My Sleep

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"Crying In My Sleep"
Squeeze crying in my sleep.jpg
Single by Squeeze
from the album Play
Released1991
Format 5" CD
Recorded?
Genre Rock
Length4:07
Label Reprise
Songwriter(s) Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford
Producer(s) Tony Berg
Squeeze singles chronology
"Satisfied"
(1991)		"Crying In My Sleep"
(1991)		"Cool for Cats"
(1992)

"Crying in My Sleep" was the second single released from Squeeze's ninth album, Play , in the U.S. It was released only as a single-track, promotional CD, and reached number 14 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Single (music) type of music release usually containing one or two tracks

In the music industry, a single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record or an album. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular. In other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album.

Squeeze (band) British New Wave band

Squeeze are a British rock band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the new wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s. They are known in the UK for their hit songs "Cool for Cats", "Up the Junction", "Slap and Tickle", "Another Nail in My Heart", "Pulling Mussels ", "Tempted", "Labelled with Love", "Black Coffee in Bed" and "Hourglass". Though not as commercially successful in the United States, Squeeze had American hits with "Tempted", "Hourglass" and "853-5937", and were considered a part of the Second British Invasion.

<i>Play</i> (Squeeze album) 1991 studio album by Squeeze

Play is a 1991 album by the British new wave group Squeeze. It is the band's ninth album, and their only released by Reprise Records. It is the first LP in the Squeeze discography to feature only four official members instead of five. Tony Berg produced the album. In the liner notes to the 1996 Squeeze compilation Excess Moderation, Glenn Tilbrook stated that he considers Play the beginning of Squeeze's "renaissance period." The album spent one week at number 41 in the UK Albums Chart in September 1991.

Jimmy Webb also wrote a song with this title, which was recorded by Art Garfunkel and is on Garfunkel's album Watermark . Garfunkel's version was released as a single in 1977.

Jimmy Webb American songwriter, composer, and singer

Jimmy Layne Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He has written numerous platinum-selling songs, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park". He has had successful collaborations with Glen Campbell, Michael Feinstein, Linda Ronstadt, The 5th Dimension, Art Garfunkel, and Richard Harris.

Art Garfunkel American singer, poet, and actor

Arthur Ira Garfunkel is an American singer, poet, math teacher, and actor. He is best known for his partnership with Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.

<i>Watermark</i> (Art Garfunkel album) 1977 studio album by Art Garfunkel

Watermark is the third solo studio album by Art Garfunkel, originally released in October 1977 on Columbia Records. The first single, "Crying in My Sleep", failed to chart, but the follow-up, a version of "(What a) Wonderful World" reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The songs "Watermark" and "Paper Chase" had previously been performed by Richard Harris on his albums A Tramp Shining and The Yard Went On Forever. This album is also noted as being the final recording sessions of legendary saxophonist Paul Desmond who died of lung cancer shortly thereafter. Actress Laurie Bird, Garfunkel's girlfriend, made the album cover's photograph.

Track listing

  1. "Crying in My Sleep" (4:07)


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