Can't Stop Dreaming

Can't Stop Dreaming
Studio album by Daryl Hall
Released	1996
Recorded	June 1995
Genre	Rock, Pop, Jazz
Length	56:18
Label	BMG International
Producer	Walter Afanasieff, David Bellochio, Daryl Hall, Michael Peden
Daryl Hall chronology
Soul Alone (1993) Can't Stop Dreaming (1996) Laughing Down Crying (2011)

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Can't Stop Dreaming is a 1996 solo album by Daryl Hall. It was originally released in Japan and as a Limited Collector's Edition in 1996 with 12 tracks.^[1] It was finally released in the USA on June 10, 2003, but it was missing one of its original tracks ("Something About You") although it was on their 2002 album, Do it for Love. All versions of the album contain a remake of the Hall & Oates classic song "She's Gone".^[2]

Original 1996 Release Track List[]

1. "Can't Stop Dreaming" (Walter Afanasieff, Hall, Alan Gorrie, Dan Shea) - 4:14
2. "Let Me Be The One" (Gorrie, Hall, Melvin "Wah Wah" Regin) - 4:55
3. "Something About You" (Hall, Sara Allen, David Bellochio) - 4:00
4. "Cab Driver" (Louis Brown, Hall, Gorrie) - 5:22
5. "Never Let Me Go" (Arthur Baker, Gorrie, Hall) - 4:29
6. "Holding Out For Love" (Gorrie, Hall) - 3:57
7. "Justify" (Brown, Hall) - 3:57
8. "What's In Your World" (David Brown, Gorrie, Hall, Scott Parker) - 5:50
9. "Hold On To Me" (Afanasieff, S. Allen, Gorrie, Hall) - 4:36
10. "She's Gone" - (Hall, John Oates) 5:16
11. "All By Myself"- (Gorrie, Hall) 5:00
12. "Fools Rush In" - (Bellochio, Gorrie, Hall) 4:23

2003 Version Track List[]

1. "Cab Driver"
2. "Let Me Be The One"
3. "Can't Stop Dreaming"
4. "Never Let Me Go"
5. "Holding Out For Love"
6. "Justify"
7. "What's In Your World"
8. "Hold On To Me"
9. "She's Gone"
10. "All By Myself"
11. "Fools Rush In"

Singles[]

The album's lead single, Cab Driver, did not enter on the Hot 100 but it reached #21 on the Adult Contemporary chart on September 27, 2003, staying there for four consecutive weeks and remained on the chart for 13 weeks making it the most successful song of the album.^[3]

The next single, What's In Your World, went to number 27 on the Adult Contemporary chart for one week on July 3, 2004 and remained on the chart for eight weeks.^[3]

Production[]

• Producers – Daryl Hall (Tracks #1-8, 10 & 11); David Bellochio (Tracks #2-8, 10 & 11); Walter Afanasieff (Tracks #3, 7 & 8); Buster & Shovani (Tracks #6, 7 & 10); Michael Peden (Track #9).
• Engineers – Peter Moshay; Dana Chappelle (Tracks #3, 7 & 8); Frank Fagnano (Tracks #3, 6, 7, 8 & 10).
• Mixed by Peter Moshay
• Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering (Portland, ME).
• Package Design – Phillips Design
• Photography – David A. Stewart

Personnel[]

• Daryl Hall – lead and backing vocals, keyboards
• David Bellochio – keyboards (2-11), drums (3, 4, 5)
• Dan Shea – acoustic piano (3)
• Louis "Buster" Brown – keyboards (7)
• Scott "Shovani" Parker – keyboards (7)
• Alan Gorrie – guitar (1)
• Craig Ross – guitar (2, 11)
• Paul Livant – guitar (3, 4, 5, 9, 10)
• Bob Mayo – guitar (5)
• Ray Fuller – guitar (6)
• Dann Huff – guitar (7, 8)
• Wah-Wah Watson – guitar (10)
• Jack Daley – bass (2, 3, 6-11)
• Tom "T-Bone" Wolk – bass (9)
• Steven Wolf – drums (2, 11)
• Jerry Krenach – drums (8, 10)
• Rupert Brown – drum programming (9)
• Peter Moshay – percussion (2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11)
• Roger Ball – saxophone (1)
• Andy Snitzer – saxophone (2)
• Sandy Barber – backing vocals (2)
• Klyde Jones – backing vocals (2, 7, 8)
• Alexis England – backing vocals (7, 8)
• Lujuann Carter – backing vocals (7, 8)

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