I Can Dream, Can't I?

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"I Can Dream, Can't I?," is a popular song written by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal that was published in 1937. 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' orchestra on July 15, 1949, and released by Decca Records as catalog number 24705. It first reached the Billboard charts on September 16, 1949, reaching number one 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).^[1][2]

Other Cover Versions[]

• In 1949, Perry Como sang the song on the NBC radio show The Chesterfield Supper Club.^[3]
• The song was also covered by Cass Elliot and included on her second solo album, Bubblegum, Lemonade, and... Something for Mama in 1969.
• In 1975, the Carpenters recorded the song and included it on their album, Horizon Karen and Richard usually sang their own background vocals on their records, but on this cover, Jackie Ward, Ron Hicklin, Tom Bahler and John Bahler sang them..
• A barbershop arrangement penned by Ed Waesche became a favourite of 1978 International Barbershop Quartet Champions, the Bluegrass Student Union.
• In 2000 Joni James included the song on her album One Hundred Strings.
• In 2014 Annie Lennox included it on her Nostalgia album.

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