Those Good Old Dreams

"Those Good Old Dreams"
"Those Good Old Dreams"
Single by Carpenters
from the album Made in America
B-side	"When It's Gone (It's Just Gone)"
Released	December 1981
Recorded	1981
Genre	Pop, Country
Length	4:12
Label	A&M; 1940
Songwriter(s)	Richard Carpenter / John Bettis
Producer(s)	Richard Carpenter
Carpenters singles chronology

"Those Good Old Dreams" is a song by The Carpenters. Its B-side is "When It's Gone (It's Just Gone)", a song released on the Made in America album in 1981.

The song talks of reliving dreams and feelings of romantic love held long ago ("It's a new day for those good old dreams / One by one it seems they're coming true").

Personnel[]

Karen Carpenter – lead vocals, backing vocals, and percussion
Richard Carpenter – backing vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, vocal arrangements
Joe Osborn – bass
Larrie Londin - drums
Tim May - guitars
Jay Dee Maness - pedal steel guitar

Charts[]

Chart (1981–82)	Peak position
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary^[1]	9
US Billboard Hot 100^[2]	63
US Billboard Adult Contemporary	21

Music video[]

There was a music video shot for this song in 1981. The video is featured on the Carpenters Gold video collection. Footage of their vinyl record Made in America being manufactured at the A&M Records warehouse is shown at the beginning. Karen singing and Richard playing the piano in a room with colorful, empty picture frames is shown during the verses and the final part of the song; during the choruses, a montage of black-and-white childhood photos of Karen and Richard is displayed.

The yellow pant suit that Karen wore in this video would later be worn by the actress Cynthia Gibb when she starred in the title role of the 1989 film The Karen Carpenter Story.

References[]

^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1982-02-16. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X

External links[]

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[1] "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1982-02-16. Retrieved 2019-02-18.

[2] Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X

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