Dream A Little Dream Of Me

by

The Mamas & The Papas

Album: The Papas & The Mamas      Released: 1968

US Chart: 12     UK Chart: 11

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This song was written in 1931 and became a popular standard in depression-era America. Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt composed the music and Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics. It was recorded by a variety of singers, including Nat King Cole, Michael Bublé, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. (thanks, Edna - Madrid, Spain)

When she was 15, Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas met Fabian Andre, who wrote the music for the song. Years later, when Phillips heard that Andre died in a fall in an elevator shaft, she remembered meeting him and this song came up. They decided to record it with "Mama" Cass Elliot on lead vocals. It became her signature song, and she performed it with The Mamas & The Papas and as a solo artist until her death in 1974.

Gus Kahn was a very successful lyricist in the '20s and '30s, writing hits like "Makin' Whoopie," "Ain't We Got Fun" and "It Had To Be You." In an NPR interview, Gus Kahn's son Donald, who is also a composer, said: "He always tried to keep his lyrics simple. He also said that young men and women don't know how to say "I Love You" to each other, so we say it for them in 32 bars."

Beautiful South recorded this for the movie French Kiss. (thanks, Radhika - The Basement)

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Comments:

This song is timeless.
- Mike, Santa Barbara, CA

I love this song and I'm a heavey metalist....visit me at www.eldahs.com
- Lawrence, Erie, PA

if you turn up the volume and listen to the right speaker, you can hear someone say "She keeps pouring it from one glass into the other and changing the straw."
- Bill, philadelphia, PA

I balled like a baby when I first heard this song. It's so beautiful! And to Eddie, a man says "And now to sing this lovely ballad, here is Mama Cass." If you listen closely, she also clears her throat.
- Erikka, Buckeye, AZ

Very awesome classic rock song. Was played on my favorite show "Supernatural" on the episode Dream a Little Dream of Me
- Myra, Chicago, IL

Eddie of NJ, It's either John Phillips or Denny Doherty specifically speaking, "And now to sing this lovely ballad, here is Mama Cass."
- Mary, Middle of Nowhere, ND

Does anyone know what is said in the beginning? It sounds like it ends with "and now, Mama cass.."
- Eddie, Bayonne, NJ

first comment whoo!!! great song if i had a little fairy come down to grant me three wishes...one would definatly be to have the same voice as mama cass
- Madalyn, Greensburg, PA

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