You_Make_My_Dreams

You Make My Dreams

You Make My Dreams

1981 single by Hall & Oates

"You Make My Dreams" is a song by American duo Daryl Hall & John Oates, taken from their ninth studio album, Voices (1980). The song reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981.[3] The track received 154,000 digital sales between 2008 and 2009 according to Nielsen SoundScan.[4]

Quick Facts Single by Daryl Hall & John Oates, from the album Voices ...

The song has sold over one million copies in the UK to date, despite having never charted in the country.[citation needed]

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."[5]

Daryl Hall also commented on the iconic piano riff that opens the song and the distinctive sound that is generated by a Yamaha CP-30 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 CP-30. 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.”[6]

Reception

Record World praised the song's "vocal and musical inspiration."[7]

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

Charts

More information Chart (1981), Peak position ...

Certifications

More information Region, Certification ...

References

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    Billboard Staff (October 19, 2023). "The 500 Best Pop Songs: Staff List". Billboard. Retrieved February 15, 2024. The Philly rock 'n soul duo's most potent pop blast, as smile-inducing as nearly any of the Motown classics they clearly revered.
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    "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2019 Singles" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved October 4, 2021.
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    "Danish single certifications – Daryl Hall & John Oates – You Make My Dreams (Come True)". IFPI Danmark. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
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    "Portuguese single certifications – Daryl Hall & John Oates – You Make My Dreams" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa. Retrieved May 23, 2022.
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    "British single certifications – Daryl Hall & John Oates – You Make My Dreams". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
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