“Dream a Little Dream of Me” is a song with music by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt and lyrics by Gus Kahn. Early recordings “Dream a Little Dream of Me” was recorded by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra with vocal by Nelson on February 16, 1931 for Brunswick Records. That February 18, Wayne King and His Orchestra with vocal by Ernie Birchill recorded the song for Victor Records. “Dream a Little Dream of Me” was also an early signature tune of Kate Smith. A top 20 success for Frankie Laine, “Dream a Little Dream” was also recorded by traditional popular music singers of the 1940s and 1950s including Doris Day (who during 1957 was the first latter day singer to record it at the slow tempo in which it had been written), Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, Barbara Carroll, the Nat King Cole trio, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Joni James on her 1962 jazz influenced album I’m Your Girl, Dean Martin, Vaughn Monroe, Jack Owens, and Dinah Shore. Cass Elliot version “Dream a Little Dream” was recorded for the Mamas & the Papas April 1968 album release The Papas & The Mamas. The group had often sung the song for fun, having been familiarized with it by member Michelle Phillips, whose father had been friends with the song’s co-writer, Fabian Andre, in Mexico City where Michelle Phillips’ family had resided when she was a young girl. Fellow-”Mama” Cass Elliot suggested to group leader John Phillips that the group record “Dream a Little Dream of Me”; according to him she was unhappy …
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“And I Love You So” is a popular song written by Don McLean and released on his 1970 debut album, Tapestry. The song has been recorded by many artists in the years since McLean’s original version, and it was a 1973 hit for singer Perry Como on his album of the same name, And I Love You So. Como’s version of the song reached #29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the last of his many popular recordings to reach the Top 40. It also spent one week at #1 on the easy listening chart in 1973.[1] In Britain, the record reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart in 1973 on RCA Records and remained on the chart for 31 weeks (longer than any other of his hits in the UK). [edit] Other recordingsThe song was recorded by Elvis Presley at RCA studio C in Hollywood, California, on March 11, 1975. It was released on his album, Elvis Today, and Presley used it in almost every live show until his death. Harry Connick, Jr. included the song on his 2009 album, Your Songs. Other performers who have recorded the song include Rick Astley, Shirley Bassey, Glen Campbell, Bobby Goldsboro, Tom T. Hall, Emmylou Harris, Engelbert Humperdink, Howard Keel, Johnny Mathis, Nana Mouskouri, Jim Nabors, Helen Reddy, and Bobby Vinton.[2] A Filipino film starring Bea Alonzo, Sam Milby and Derek Ramsay with the same name used the song on its official soundtrack.[3]
Next time I’ll lose the swiveling chair, stand up, dress up, and quit looking around the room so much. Final postscript, I change the lyrics “caring too much” to “daring too much”.