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You Make My Dreams
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = You Make My Dreams
| cover = youmakemydreams.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Dutch vinyl single
| type = single
| artist = Hall & Oates
| album = Voices
| B-side = Gotta Lotta Nerve (Perfect Perfect)
| released = April 1981 Single/
1980 Voices album
| recorded = 1980
| studio =
| genre = Pop rock
| length = 3:06
| label = RCA
| writer = * Daryl Hall
* John Oates
* Sara Allen
| producer = * Daryl Hall
* John Oates
| prev_title = Kiss on My List
| prev_year = 1980
| next_title = Private Eyes
| next_year = 1981
| misc =
}}
"'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.[ AllMusic] Hall & Oates chart history The track received 154,000 digital sales between 2008 and 2009 according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The song has sold over 1 million copies in the UK to date, despite having never charted in the country.
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."
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 songs 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.
In popular culture
*The song appears in a 2018 commercial for Dick's Sporting Goods, promoting a Father's Day sale,. as well as a 2019 commercial for KFC Australia.
*Starting in the 201819 season, the song has been used by the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League as their goal song during their home games..
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
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
Category:1980 songs
Category:1981 singles
Category:Hall & Oates songs
Category:Songs written by John Oates
Category:Songs written by Daryl Hall
Category:RCA Records singles
Category:Songs written by Sara Allen
Category:Songs about dreams
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