"
Beautiful Dreamer" is a popular
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
song, the last known song written by
Stephen FosterStephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music," was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
. It was published posthumously in 1864, the year Foster died.
Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world, heard in the day,
Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd away!
Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,
List while I woo thee with soft melody;
Gone are the cares of life's busy throng,
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea
Mermaids are chanting the wild lorelie;
Over the streamlet vapors are borne,
Waiting to fade at the bright coming morn.
Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart,
E'en as the morn on the streamlet and sea;
Then will all clouds of sorrow depart,
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
- Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American popular singer and actor whose career stretched over more than half a century from 1926 until his death....
with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra, Decca 3118 (matrix DLA 1967-B)
- Steve Conway with Jack Byfield & his Orchestra, Columbia (England) FB3233 (matrix CA 20117-1)
- Thomas Hampson with Jay Ungar
Jay Ungar is an American musician and composer. Ungar was born in the Bronx , the son of immigrant parents from Eastern Europe. He frequented Greenwich Village music venues during his formative period, and was a member of Cat Mother and the all-night newsboys & the Putnam String County Band...
(mandolin), David Alpher (piano), and Molly Mason (guitar), EMI Classics 41645
- John Leyton
John Leyton is a English actor and singer. As a singer he is best known for his hit song, "Johnny Remember Me" , which reached Number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961.-Career:Leyton went to Highgate School and after completing his National Service, he...
, His Masters Voice, 1963
- An instrumental of the song appears prominently as theme music during Eddie Lawrence
Eddie Lawrence is an American monologist, actor, singer, lyricist, playwright, director and television personality, whose unique comic creation, the eternally and bizarrely optimistic Old Philosopher, has gained him a devoted, although specialized, cult following for over five decades.-Early...
's comedy routine "The Old Philosopher".
- Played from a music box to calm the Gorilla in the 1947 film Mighty Joe Young.
- In The Death Collector
The Death Collector is a 1976 low-budget crime film directed by Ralph De Vito and starring Joseph Cortese, Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent...
, Joe Pesci and friends toss peanuts at an ill-advised nightclub rendition.
- The song is also used by film composer Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American musician, best known for composing music for television and movies, and leading the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995. He is a frequent collaborator with long-time friend Tim Burton, and has scored all but...
in the 1989 score for the motion picture BatmanBatman is a 1989 superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Michael Keaton in the title role, as well as Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl and Jack Palance...
(directed by Tim BurtonTimothy William "Tim" Burton is an American film director, producer, writer and artist. He is famed for his dark and quirky films, such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, which he co-wrote and produced...
).
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"
Beautiful Dreamer" is a popular
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
song, the last known song written by
Stephen FosterStephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music," was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
. It was published posthumously in 1864, the year Foster died.
Lyrics
Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world, heard in the day,
Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd away!
Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,
List while I woo thee with soft melody;
Gone are the cares of life's busy throng,
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea
Mermaids are chanting the wild lorelie;
Over the streamlet vapors are borne,
Waiting to fade at the bright coming morn.
Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart,
E'en as the morn on the streamlet and sea;
Then will all clouds of sorrow depart,
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Recordings
- Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American popular singer and actor whose career stretched over more than half a century from 1926 until his death....
with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra, Decca 3118 (matrix DLA 1967-B)
- Steve Conway with Jack Byfield & his Orchestra, Columbia (England) FB3233 (matrix CA 20117-1)
- Thomas Hampson with Jay Ungar
Jay Ungar is an American musician and composer. Ungar was born in the Bronx , the son of immigrant parents from Eastern Europe. He frequented Greenwich Village music venues during his formative period, and was a member of Cat Mother and the all-night newsboys & the Putnam String County Band...
(mandolin), David Alpher (piano), and Molly Mason (guitar), EMI Classics 41645
- John Leyton
John Leyton is a English actor and singer. As a singer he is best known for his hit song, "Johnny Remember Me" , which reached Number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961.-Career:Leyton went to Highgate School and after completing his National Service, he...
, His Masters Voice, 1963
Use in film
- An instrumental of the song appears prominently as theme music during Eddie Lawrence
Eddie Lawrence is an American monologist, actor, singer, lyricist, playwright, director and television personality, whose unique comic creation, the eternally and bizarrely optimistic Old Philosopher, has gained him a devoted, although specialized, cult following for over five decades.-Early...
's comedy routine "The Old Philosopher".
- Played from a music box to calm the Gorilla in the 1947 film Mighty Joe Young.
- In The Death Collector
The Death Collector is a 1976 low-budget crime film directed by Ralph De Vito and starring Joseph Cortese, Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent...
, Joe Pesci and friends toss peanuts at an ill-advised nightclub rendition.
- The song is also used by film composer Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American musician, best known for composing music for television and movies, and leading the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995. He is a frequent collaborator with long-time friend Tim Burton, and has scored all but...
in the 1989 score for the motion picture BatmanBatman is a 1989 superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Michael Keaton in the title role, as well as Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl and Jack Palance...
(directed by Tim BurtonTimothy William "Tim" Burton is an American film director, producer, writer and artist. He is famed for his dark and quirky films, such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, which he co-wrote and produced...
). In the context of the film, it functions as the Joker's twisted "love song" for the female lead, Vicki Vale.
- The song also recurs throughout the 1947 comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is a short story by James Thurber. The most famous of Thurber's stories, it first appeared in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and was first collected in his book My World and Welcome to It...
, starring Danny KayeDanny Kaye was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian.-Early years:Born David Daniel Kaminsky to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants in Brooklyn, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians...
and Virginia MayoVirginia Mayo was an American film actress.After a short career in vaudeville, Mayo progressed to films and during the 1940s established herself as a supporting player in such films as The Best Years of Our Lives and White Heat .She worked extensively during the 1950s, but after this her...
.
- This song was sung by the character Suzanne Boxer in the beginning and the end of the TV movie "Friends Til The End" starring Shannen Doherty
Shannen Maria Doherty is an American actress and television director, perhaps best known for her work as Heather Duke in Heathers , as Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210 and its spinoff series 90210 and as Prue Halliwell in Charmed .-Early life and career beginnings:Doherty was born in Memphis,...
.