Sweet Dream Woman

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"Sweet Dream Woman"
Single by Waylon Jennings
from the album Good Hearted Woman
B-side "Sure Didn't Take Him Long"
ReleasedJune 10, 1972
Genre Country
Length3:00
Label RCA Victor
Songwriter(s) Chip Taylor, Al Gorgoni
Producer(s) Ronny Light
Waylon Jennings singles chronology
"Good Hearted Woman"
(1972)		"Sweet Dream Woman"
(1972)		"Pretend I Never Happened"
(1972)

"Sweet Dream Woman" is a song written by Chip Taylor and Al Gorgoni, and recorded by American country music artist Waylon Jennings. Jennings cut the song in September and October 1971 at RCA Studios in Nashville, with Ronny Light producing. [1] That recording was released in June 1972 as the second single from the album Good Hearted Woman . The song reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [2]

Chip Taylor American singer

Chip Taylor is an American songwriter, noted for writing "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing." His songs have been covered, and often made into hits, by a wide range of artists from Janis Joplin to Juice Newton, and from Anne Murray to Ace Frehley, including Jimi Hendrix, Chrissie Hynde, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris.

Al Gorgoni is an American guitarist, composer, arranger, and producer, known for his work as a studio musician during the 1960s and 1970s. Growing up in Philadelphia, his family moved to The Bronx where he took up the guitar at age 14.

Waylon Jennings 20th-century American country music singer, songwriter, and musician

Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings's first recording session, and hired him to play bass. Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight in 1959 that crashed and killed Holly, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens. During the 1970s, Jennings was instrumental in the inception of Outlaw country movement, and recorded country music's first platinum album, Wanted! The Outlaws with Willie Nelson, Tompall Glaser, and Jessi Colter.

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Personnel

Fred Carter Jr. American musician

Fred F. Carter Jr. was an American guitarist, singer, producer and composer.

Ralph Mooney was a well-known steel guitar player. He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1983. He was the original steel guitarist in The Strangers.

Henry Pershing Strzelecki was a Nashville studio musician who performed with Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Eddy Arnold, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Ronnie Milsap, Merle Haggard, and many others.

Chart performance

Chart (1972)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 7
Canadian RPM Country Tracks3

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References

  1. 1 2 Nashville Rebel (liner notes). Waylon Jennings. New York, New York: Sony BMG Music Entertainment/Legacy Recordings. 2006. pp. 132–139. 82876 89640 2.CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 174.
  3. ↑ "Waylon Jennings Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.


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