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I Can Dream Can't I?

Music by Sammy Fain

Originally Performed by Andrews Sisters

"I Can Dream, Can't I?," is a popular song written by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal that was published in 1937. It was 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). 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.

Release Date: 1937

Various Arrangers : Standards 4

The beautiful 1937 ballad, 'I Can Dream, Can't I?' moves between lush harmonies and flowing counterpoint. It is richly texutred, yet accessible to most groups. ''Their Hearts Were Full of Spring' is as close as a mixed group can get to the original TTBB, Four Freshman, original. A very romantic a cappella ballad with lush harmony throughout! 'Am I Blue' sounds incredibly lush for having a maximum of 4 parts. A la Gene Puerling but easier. A definite "oo and ah" creator!

Songlist: I Can Dream Can't I?, Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring, Am I Blue