I Can Dream, Can't I?

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"I Can Dream, Can't I?"
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The Billboard October 22, 1949 full page ad featuring Gordon Jenkins, Decca's musical director and band leader/arranger on this record
Single by The Andrews Sisters with Gordon Jenkins Chorus and Orchestra
B-side "The wedding of Lili Marlene"
PublishedNovember 13, 1937 (1937-11-13) by Mario Music Corp., New York [1]
ReleasedAugust 22, 1949 (1949-08-22)
RecordedJuly 15, 1949 (1949-07-15) [2]
Studio Decca Studios, New York City
Genre Popular music
Length2:37
Label Decca 24705 [3]
Composer(s) Sammy Fain [1]
Lyricist(s) Irving Kahal

"I Can Dream, Can't I?," is a popular song written by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal that was published in 1937. [1] It was included in a flop musical, Right This Way . Tommy Dorsey released a hit recording of it the same year, but it was in the postwar years that the song gained its greatest success. Harry James recorded a version in December 1937 for Brunswick.

The best-known version was recorded by the Andrews Sisters and Gordon Jenkins Chorus and Orchestra on July 15, 1949 [2] (Jenkins was also arranger), and released by Decca Records as catalog number 24705. It first reached the Billboard charts on September 16, 1949, peaking at number one for five weeks on all three of the magazine's main pop charts at the time (Best Sellers in Stores, Most Played by Jockeys, and Most Played in Jukeboxes). [4] [5] , charting well into 1950 for 25 weeks. Jenkins would top himself a few months later when he recorded " Goodnight Irene with The Weavers, the top record of 1950, [6] selling two million copies. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Library of Congress. Copyright Office. (1937). Catalog of Copyright Entries 1937 Musical Compositions New Series Vol 32 Pt 3 For the Year 1937. United States Copyright Office. U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
  2. 1 2 "Decca matrix 75074. I can dream, can't I? / The Andrews Sisters - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
  3. "Decca 24705 (10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
  4. Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top Pop Records 1940-1955. Record Research.
  5. Gilliland, John. (197X). "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #23 - All Tracks UNT Digital Library". Digital.library.unt.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  6. "Number One Song of the Year: 1946-2016". 2018-04-20. Archived from the original on 2018-04-20. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
  7. Danziger, Meryl (2016). Sing It!: A Biography of Pete Seeger. Seven Stories Press. p. 34. ISBN   978-1-60980-656-9.
  8. "Perry Como Live - I Can Dream, Can't I?". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  9. "‎I Can Dream, Can't I?". Apple Music . Retrieved December 22, 2023. Horizon - Carpenters - June 6, 1975
  10. "Carpenters - Horizon album, 1975". Richard Carpenter official website. June 4, 2008. Retrieved December 22, 2023. ...I am particularly fond of I Can Dream Can't I which features a beautiful arrangement...5. I Can Dream Can't I - 4:58