You Make My Dreams
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| "You Make My Dreams" | ||||
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 Dutch vinyl single | ||||
| Single by Hall & Oates | ||||
| from the album Voices | ||||
| B-side | "Gotta Lotta Nerve (Perfect Perfect)" | |||
| Released | April 1981 | |||
| Recorded | 1980 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Length | 3:06 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
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| Hall & Oates singles chronology | ||||
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| "You Make My Dreams" on YouTube | ||||
"You Make My Dreams", is a song by the American duo Hall & Oates, taken from their ninth studio album, Voices (1980). The song reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981.[1] The track received 154,000 digital sales between 2008 and 2009 according to Nielsen SoundScan.[2] It is the theme song for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League.
Composition[]
John Oates said the song came about "through a happy accident, my guitar player friend of mine and myself were jamming in the dressing room, and I started playing a delta blues and he started playing a Texas swing, and we put them together, and all of a sudden into my head popped "you make my dreams." I just started singing it. I don't know why, but I did. And it sounded really cool and everyone liked it. It was as simple as that."[3]
Daryl Hall also commented on the iconic piano riff that opens the song and the distinctive sound that is generated by a Yamaha CP30 in an interview with the BBC on the 40th anniversary of the song’s release. “It's a very unusual edition of a Yamaha called the Yamaha CP30. There were very few of them made and it wasn't out for very long. Over the years mine got destroyed [and] I cannot duplicate that sound other than with the actual instrument. So I had to search and search until, quite recently, I found one.”[4]
In popular culture[]
- The song was featured in the films I Love You to Death (1990), The Wedding Singer (1998), Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003), Step Brothers (2008) (500) Days of Summer (2009), Despicable Me 2 (2013), Eddie the Eagle (2016), Ready Player One (2018) and UglyDolls (2019).
- The cast of Glee performed it in a mash-up with "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" in the season 3 episode "Mash Off".
- In 2012, it appeared in an eHarmony commercial. It appears in a 2017 commercial for Applebee's.
- The song appears in The Office, Modern Family, Rookie Blue and Young Sheldon.
- The song appears in a 2018 commercial for Dick's Sporting Goods, promoting a Father's Day sale,[5][6] as well as a 2019 commercial for KFC Australia.[7]
- The song is used by the Toronto Maple Leafs currently during their home games since the 2018–19 season .[8]
- The Milwaukee Brewers use the song during home games, playing the song after winning a game.
- The song has appeared three times in 2020 TV commercials, appearing in a Google Maps ad that ran during the 92nd Academy Awards on February 9, for American Family Insurance, and in a cover version for an ad by Michelob Ultra starring Jimmy Butler about the restart of the 2019-20 NBA season.
- "You Make My Dreams" was used as a walk-out theme for Jill Biden during the 2020 presidential campaign and played during the fireworks and drone light show following then President-elect Joe Biden's victory speech in Wilmington, Delaware on November 7, 2020.
- Kermit the Frog sang the song on The Masked Singer as the "Snail" on March 10, 2021.
Personnel[]
- Daryl Hall – lead vocals and backing vocals, synthesizer
- John Oates – electric guitar and backing vocals
- John Siegler – bass and backing vocals
- Jerry Marotta – drums
Chart performance[]
Weekly charts[]
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Year-end charts[]
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References[]
- ^ AllMusic Hall & Oates chart history
- ^ Donahue, Ann (November 3, 2010). "Hall & Oates Embrace Their Hipster Faithful". Billboard. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
- ^ "John Oates : Songwriter Interviews". Songfacts. April 7, 2011. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
- ^ "Hall And Oates: How You Make My Dreams became a streaming colossus". BBC News. June 10, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
- ^ "Applebee's Tapped Steak & Twisted Potatoes TV Commercial, 'Dreams Come True'". ispot.tv. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
- ^ "'Dick's Sporting Goods TV Commercial, 'Father's Day Best Price Guarantee'". ispot.tv. Retrieved June 7, 2018..
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPW3gw2UgjU
- ^ "Leafs Offence Putting on a Show". Toronto Star. Retrieved September 30, 2018..
- ^ "Daryl Hall John Oates Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ^ "Daryl Hall John Oates Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
- ^ "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending July 18, 1981". Archived from the original on September 17, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2018.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)Cash Box magazine.
- ^ "Hall + Oates". wweb.uta.edu.
- ^ "You make my dreams come true". wweb.uta.edu.
- ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1981/Top 100 Songs of 1981". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
- ^ "Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles". Cash Box. December 26, 1981. Archived from the original on September 18, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
External links[]
- 1980 songs
- 1981 singles
- Hall & Oates songs
- Songs written by John Oates
- Songs written by Daryl Hall
- RCA Records singles
- Songs written by Sara Allen
- Songs about dreams