music.wikisort.org - Composition"Making Our Dreams Come True" is a 1976 hit single written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel.[1][2] It was recorded by Cyndi Grecco, then an unknown musician. The title track of her debut album, it was also used as the theme song to the 1976–83 television sitcom Laverne & Shirley (where it was titled "We're Gonna Make It" in the first-season end credits).
1976 single by Cyndi Grecco
"Making Our Dreams Come True" |
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B-side | "Watching You" |
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Released | May 1976 |
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Recorded | 1976 |
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Genre | Pop |
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Length | 2:29 |
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Label | Private Stock Records 45086 |
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Songwriter(s) | Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel |
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Producer(s) | Charles Fox |
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"Making Our Dreams Come True" reached number 25 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 21 on the Cash Box Top 100.[3][4] The song reached number 16 in Canada on the RPM Weekly Top Singles chart.[5] It spent 16 weeks on the U.S. charts, peaking in early July,[6] and also reached number 13 on the Adult Contemporary chart.[7] To date, it is Grecco's lone record to reach any chart.
Weekly charts
Chart (1976) |
Peak position |
Australia Kent Music Report[8] |
65 |
Canadian RPM Top Singles[5] |
16 |
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary |
13 |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[3] |
25 |
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[4] |
21 |
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Cover versions
Johnny Cash covered the song for a commercial for Nissan, highlighting the Japanese automaker's American workforce.[11]
A country version of the song was used in the game Wasteland 3 for the final boss fight of the second DLC, The Cult of the Holy Detonation.[citation needed]
See also
- List of 1970s one-hit wonders in the United States
References
- ""Making our Dreams Come True" by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox". allthelyrics.com. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
- "Record Details". 45cat.com. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
(Fox-Gimbel)
- Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
- "Cash Box Top 100 7/10/76". Tropicalglen.com. 1976-07-10. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
- "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
- "Cyndi Grecco Chart History". billboard.com. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
- "Billboard Adult Contemporary". billboard.com. July 4, 1976. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
- Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 129. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- "Top Singles – Volume 26, No. 14 & 15, January 08 1977". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Archived from the original on June 10, 2016. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
- Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
- McDonough, John; Egolf, Karen (18 June 2015). The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising. ISBN 9781135949136.
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