All I Have to Do Is Dream

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All I Have to Do Is Dream

"All I Have to Do Is Dream" is a popular

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song

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made famous by the Everly Brothers, written by the legendary husband and wife songwriting team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant

Felice and Boudleaux Bryant

Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant were an United States wife and husband country music songwriting team who were also at the forefront of the evolution of pop music....
, and published in 1958

1958 in music

Events*January 28 - Little Richard begins attending classes at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama*January 29 - Bo Diddley records "Say Man", a #3 R&B hit when it is released in the Fall of 1959....
. The song is ranked #141 on the Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone

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magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

ar the best-known version was recorded by The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

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"All I Have to Do Is Dream" is a popular

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Felice and Boudleaux Bryant

1958 in music

The Everly Brothers version

By far the best-known version was recorded by The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers are brothers and top-selling country music-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing....
and originally appeared on the album Everly Brothers Best in 1959. The first version they recorded was laid down in just two takes, on March 6, 1958. The song has also featured on several notable lists of the best songs or singles of all time, including Q
Q (magazine)

Q is a music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, with a circulation of 130,179 as of June 2007.Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology — from artists suc...
's 1001 best songs ever in 2003 and Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J....
s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, where it placed 141. The record is the only one to be at #1 on all of Billboard's singles charts simultaneously, on June 2, 1958. It first reached #1 on the "Most played by Jockeys" and "Top 100" charts on May 19, 1958, and remained there for five and three weeks, respectively; with the August 1958 introduction of the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
chart, the song ended the year at #2.

The B-side, "Claudette", was the first major songwriting success for Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
, and was named for his wife. As a result of this song he terminated his contract with Sun Records and affiliated himself with the Everly's publisher, Acuff-Rose.

Other versions
Another well known version was released by Richard Chamberlain on his album Richard Chamberlain Sings. This version became a hit when released as a single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
in 1963
1963 in music

Events*January 1 - The Beatles start a 5 day tour in Scotland to support the release of their new single, "Love Me Do".*January 4 - At Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy, Dalida receives a Juke Box Global Oscar for the year's most-played artist on juke boxes....
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In France, this song was sung in 1963 by yé-yé
Yé-yé

Y?-y? was a style of pop music that emerged out of France, Qu?bec and Spain in the early 1960s. The term "y?-y?" derived from "yeah! yeah!" yell....
singer Sheila (who sang Spacer, produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards from Chic). The French title is "Pendant les vacances."

Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell is a Grammy Award, Dove Award winning, and two time nominated Golden Globe Award United States country pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor....
and Bobbie Gentry
Bobbie Gentry

Roberta Lee Streeter , professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is an American singer-songwriter. Gentry was one of the first female country music to write and produce her own material....
recorded the song as a duet in the late 1960s.

Barry Manilow covered the song in his 2006 album The Greatest Songs of the Fifties
The Greatest Songs of the Fifties

The Greatest Songs of the Fifties is an album by veteran American singer Barry Manilow, released in the United States on January 31 2006. A significant album for Barry Manilow, it finds the Brooklyn-born crooner taking on songs that were popular in his youth....
.

Laurent Voulzy covered this song in a duet with The Corrs
The Corrs

The Corrs are a Celtic music folk rock band from Dundalk, County Louth, Republic of Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea Corr ; Sharon Corr ; Caroline Corr ; and Jim Corr ....
for their compilation album, "Dreams: The Ultimate Corrs Collection
Dreams: The Ultimate Corrs Collection

Dreams: The Ultimate Corrs Collection is a compilation album by Irish band The Corrs, released on 20 November 2006. The album has had very little success across the globe where it only sold 741,000 copies, reaching #5 in Spain in 2007....
" in 2007.

R.E.M. recorded a stripped-down cover for the soundtrack of the 1987 film Athens, GA: Inside Out
Athens, GA: Inside Out

Athens, GA: Inside/Out is a documentary film about the mid-1980s music scene in Athens, Georgia, USA.It features interviews and concert footage of local bands who were a part of the scene at the time of the documentation as well as local legends R.E.M....
. This was later included on the IRS Years re-issue of their 1986 album Lifes Rich Pageant
Lifes Rich Pageant

Lifes Rich Pageant is the fourth album by the United States band R.E.M. and was released in 1986. Intended as an upbeat reaction to the sobering and historical Fables of the Reconstruction, R.E.M....
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In 2007, the Everly Brothers' version was used for the History Channel's Lost Worlds commercial.

During their 2009 stripped down tour, The Gutter Twins
The Gutter Twins

The Gutter Twins is a musical collaboration between rock musicians Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan. Dulli and Lanegan have regularly contributed to each other's projects since 2000, most notably in Dulli's The Twilight Singers; of the duo's origins, Dulli said "I think Mark told a journalist we were doing it, and then the journalist called me, an...
under the moniker "An Evening With Mark Lanegan
Mark Lanegan

Mark Lanegan in Ellensburg, Washington, Washington) is an United States Rock music musician and songwriter. Lanegan began his music career in the 1980s, forming the Grunge music group Screaming Trees with Gary Lee Conner, Van Conner and Mark Pickerel....
& Greg Dulli
Greg Dulli

Greg Dulli is an American Rock music singer and instrumentalist.Dulli was born and brought up in a working-class suburb of Hamilton, Ohio. Dulli's father's side of the family comes from Kalamata-Peloponnese, Greece and his mother comes from West County Cork, Republic of Ireland....
" played this song each night during the encore.

Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard

Sir Cliff Richard Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, actor and entrepreneur.With his backing group The Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and during The Beatles' first year in the charts....
and Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
both also recorded the song.

Nils Lofgren
Nils Lofgren

Nils Lofgren is an United States rock music singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Famous as a solo artist, he is also a long-time member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band as well as a former member of Crazy Horse ....
recorded this song on his 2002 album Breakaway Angel.