"You Make My Dreams" is a song by the American duo Hall & Oates, taken from their ninth studio album, Voices (1980). The song reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981.[1] The track received 154,000 digital sales between 2008 and 2009 according to Nielsen SoundScan.[2]
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"You Make My Dreams" | ||||
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Single by Hall & Oates | ||||
from the album Voices | ||||
B-side | "Gotta Lotta Nerve (Perfect Perfect)" | |||
Released | April 1981 Single/ 1980 Voices album | |||
Recorded | 1980 | |||
Genre | Pop rock | |||
Length | 3:06 | |||
Label | RCA | |||
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The song has sold over 1 million copies in the UK to date, despite having never charted in the country.
John Oates said the song came about "through a happy accident, my guitar player friend of mine and myself were jamming in the dressing room, and I started playing a delta blues and he started playing a Texas swing, and we put them together, and all of a sudden into my head popped "you make my dreams." I just started singing it. I don't know why, but I did. And it sounded really cool and everyone liked it. It was as simple as that."[3]
Daryl Hall also commented on the iconic piano riff that opens the song and the distinctive sound that is generated by a Yamaha CP30 in an interview with the BBC on the 40th anniversary of the song’s release. “It's a very unusual edition of a Yamaha called the Yamaha CP30. There were very few of them made and it wasn't out for very long. Over the years mine got destroyed [and] I cannot duplicate that sound other than with the actual instrument. So I had to search and search until, quite recently, I found one.”[4]
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Australia (ARIA)[16] | 3× Platinum | 210,000![]() |
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[17] | Gold | 45,000![]() |
Portugal (AFP)[18] | Gold | 20,000![]() |
United Kingdom (BPI)[19] | 2× Platinum | 1,200,000![]() |
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