I Can Dream, Can't I?

"I Can Dream, Can't I?"
Song
Published	1937
Writer(s)	Sammy Fain
Lyricist(s)	Irving Kahal

"I Can Dream, Can't I?" is a popular song written by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal. The song was published in 1937, 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 on Brunswick 8038.

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] Another version was recorded by Toni Arden with Hugo Winterhalter's orchestra on September 16, 1949, and released by Columbia Records as catalog number 38612. On the Cash Box magazine Best-Selling Records chart, which combined all recorded versions, the song also reached number one.

A version was recorded by Alan Dean with Carroll Gibbons' orchestra on December 9, 1949, and released by UK Columbia Records in the United Kingdom as catalog number FB 3539. A version by the Tune Twisters with Art Wranzer & his orchestra was recorded in May 1950 and released by Artransa Records in Australia as catalog number A 009.

A doo wop version was recorded by the Skyliners in 1958, with lead female singer Janet Vogel.

Joni James recorded a version for her 1959 album 100 Strings and Joni ( MGM 3755)

Cass Elliot recorded the song on her 1969 album Bubblegum, Lemonade, and... Something for Mama.

Ruth Brown recorded the song (1959 - Atlantic Records - Producer Ahmet Ertegun)

The song was recorded by The Carpenters on their 1975 album Horizon.

A more modern version was on the 2000 Susannah McCorkle album Hearts and Minds.

Annie Lennox recorded the song on her 2014 album Nostalgia.

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top Pop Records 1940-1955. Record Research.

Preceded by "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Gene Autry	U.S. Billboard Best Sellers in Stores number-one single (The Andrews Sisters version) January 14, 1950 – February 4, 1950	Succeeded by "Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers
Preceded by N/A	Cash Box Best Sellers number-one song (The Andrews Sisters version) January 7, 1950 – February 11, 1950	Succeeded by "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" by Bing Crosby

The Andrews Sisters

LaVerne Andrews Maxene Andrews Patty Andrews

Singles	"Bei Mir Bist Du Schön" "Nice Work If You Can Get It" "Shortenin' Bread" "Oh! Ma-Ma!" "Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel)" "Ciribiribin (They're So In Love)" "Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy)" "The Woodpecker Song" "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" "Scrub Me, Mama, With a Boogie Beat" "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" "I Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)" "(I'll Be With You) In Apple Blossom Time" "Sonny Boy" "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" "Mister Five By Five" "Pistol Packin' Mama" "Jingle Bells" "Shoo-Shoo Baby" "Down In the Valley" "Straighten Up and Fly Right" "Tico Tico" "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby" "A Hot Time In the Town of Berlin" "Don't Fence Me In" "Rum and Coca-Cola" "Accentuate the Positive" "The Three Caballeros" "Along the Navajo Trail" "Get Your Kicks On Route 66" "I Don't Know Why" "House of Blue Lights" "Rumors Are Flying" "Winter Wonderland" "There's No Business Like Show Business" "Near You" "Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)" "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" "Sabre Dance" "Underneath the Arches" "You Call Everybody Darling" "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle" "I Can Dream, Can't I?" "Charley, My Boy" "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" "The Wedding Samba" "I Wanna Be Loved" "A Bushel and a Peck" "Mele Kalikimaka" "Sparrow in the Tree Top"

Book:The Andrews Sisters

Tommy Dorsey

Studio albums	The One And Only Tommy Dorsey (1961) Tommy Dorsey's Dance Party (1966) Tommy Dorsey (1937 – 1941) (1976) Yes Indeed! (1990)

Compilation albums	All-Time Greatest Dorsey/Sinatra Hits, Vol. 1-4 (1988) The Dorsey/Sinatra Sessions (1982) Music Goes Round and Round (1991) Stop, Look and Listen (1994) This Is Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Vol. 1 (2001) It's D'Lovely 1947–1950 (2004)

Songs	"East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" "For Sentimental Reasons" "I Can Dream, Can't I?" "I'll Never Smile Again" "Imagination" "In the Middle of a Dream" "Indian Summer" "The Morning After" "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" "Once in a While" "This Is No Dream" "To You" "You Taught Me to Love Again"

The Dorsey Brothers	"Annie's Cousin Fannie" "Tomorrow's Another Day" "Harlem Chapel Chimes" "Dese Dem Dose"

Related	Jimmy Dorsey The Fabulous Dorseys Getting Sentimental over Tommy Dorsey I Remember Tommy

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