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" Dream A Little Dream Of Me "

Alex's Grandma

01:12 / 28.08.04

In my, er, work;

The narrator sits there at a broken piano in a crumbling mansion in the Amazon basin, like Ronnie Biggs in a way, but not quite so much a man of the people, and sings this, quietly, in a low, dark voice.

But I'm not sure how it goes - anyone who can help gets a definite credit in the latest non-sensation to hit the world of Eng Lit.

Benny the Ball

17:36 / 28.08.04

Mama's and Papa's...

Star's shining bright above me...etc

Should be on their greatest hits

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003ZACD/pd_ka_0/026-2894248-9727661

yep it is.

Ganesh

17:51 / 28.08.04

I was always under the impression they'd covered it. Did they actually write it?

Benny the Ball

18:11 / 28.08.04

I think so, Mama Cass rather than the group I think...

Keith, like a scientist

22:22 / 28.08.04

google tells me:

Dream A Little Dream Of Me
Words by Gus Kahn
Music by Wilbur Schwandt and Fabian Andree
1930

And:
This song, was first recorded in 1931 by the Wayne King Orchestra (vocals by Ernie Burchill). It was also sung by Kate Smith and Frank Sinatra. In 1950, there were concurrent covers of the song by Jack Owens and Frankie Laine. .

But the most successful version, and certainly the one most memorable these days, is the one by Mama Cass Elliot, of the Mamas and The Papas, released in 1968.

I've always loved this song since hearing in the incredibly weird and strangely fascinating Corey Haim/Corey Feldman/Jason Robards movie called, of course, "Dream a Little Dream of Me.

Benny the Ball

08:46 / 29.08.04

Good work, Danger. I had a pang of doubt, did a lazy search and just saw Mama's name again and again, so left it.

Was the film the one about Jason Robards' dead spirit possessing one of the Corey's and trying to win an old love back or something?

Keith, like a scientist

01:07 / 31.08.04

that's the one! i remember feeling so odd about it...it didn't seem like the regular old 80s teen movie...there was something decidedly bizarre about it.

lonely as a cloud...

12:17 / 03.09.04

FYI, there's also a rather nice version of it on Help, a compilation album recorded for the War Child charity back in '94, by Salad and Terry Hall.

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