You Dreamer You

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"You Dreamer You"
Single by Johnny Cash
A-side "You Dreamer You"
"Frankie's Man, Johnny"
Released1959 (1959)
Genre country
Label Columbia 4-41371
Songwriter(s) Johnny Cash [1]
Music video
"You Dreamer You" on YouTube

"You Dreamer You" (also known as "Oh, What a Dream" [2] ) is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash. [3]

The song was recorded by Cash on March 12, 1959" [4] [5] and released as his third Columbia single [6] (Columbia 4-41371, with "Frankie's Man, Johnny" on the opposite side) [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] in April 1959. [7]

"You Dreamer You" made it to number 13 on the Billboard country chart, [12] while "Frankie's Man, Johnny" reached number 9 on the country chart [13] and number 57 on the Hot 100. [14]

Charts

Chart (1959)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [15] 13

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