- Day Dreaming (Aretha Franklin song)
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"Day Dreaming" Single by Aretha Franklin from the album Young, Gifted and Black B-side "I've Been Loving You Too Long" Released February 1972 Format 7" single Genre Soul Length 4:00
2:41 (7" version)Label Atlantic Writer(s) Aretha Franklin Producer Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler Certification Gold Aretha Franklin singles chronology "Rock Steady"
(1971)"Day Dreaming"
(1972)"All the King's Horses"
(1972)"Day Dreaming" is a soul single by American singer Aretha Franklin. Released from her album, Young, Gifted and Black, it spent two weeks at the top of the Hot Soul Singles chart in April 1972 and peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and number eleven on the Easy Listening singles chart.[1] Donny Hathaway plays electric piano on the single. It has been rumoured that the song is about Temptation's singer Dennis Edwards. It would be her twelfth number one soul single while at Atlantic Records and sold over one million copies.
Cover versions
The song has been covered by Mary J. Blige, Natalie Cole, Will Downing, Penny Ford, Michel'le, Corinne Bailey Rae, Tamia and Japanese singer Ua. Rapper T.I.'s "Let's Get Away" sampled the song on 2003's Trap Muzik which was his final single from the album. Rapper Cam'Ron interpolated and covered the song in his single "Daydreaming" from Come Home with Me.
References
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 215.
External links
Preceded by
"In the Rain" by The DramaticsBillboard's Best Selling Soul Singles number one single
April 22–29, 1972Succeeded by
"I'll Take You There" by The Staple SingersAretha Franklin Studio albums Songs of Faith (1956) · Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo (1961) · The Electrifying Aretha Franklin (1962) · The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin (1962) · Laughing on the Outside (1963) · Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington (1964) · Runnin' Out of Fools (1964) · Soul Sister (1966) · Take It Like You Give It (1967) · Take a Look (1967) · I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967) · Aretha Arrives (1967) · Lady Soul (1968) · Aretha Now (1968) · Soul '69 (1969) · Soft and Beautiful (1969) · This Girl's in Love with You (1970) · Spirit in the Dark (1970) · Young, Gifted and Black (1972) · Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) (1973) · Let Me in Your Life (1974) · With Everything I Feel in Me (1974) · You (1975) · Sparkle (1976) · Sweet Passion (1977) · Almighty Fire (1978) · La Diva (1979) · Aretha (1980) · Love All the Hurt Away (1981) · Jump to It (1982) · Get It Right (1983) · Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985) · Aretha (1986) · Through the Storm (1989) · What You See Is What You Sweat (1991) · A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998) · So Damn Happy (2003) · This Christmas, Aretha (2008) · A Woman Falling Out of Love (2011)Live albums Yeah!!! In Person with Her Quartet (1965) · Aretha in Paris (1968) · Aretha Live at Fillmore West (1971) · Amazing Grace (1972) · One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (1987) · Oh Me Oh My: Aretha Live in Philly, 1972 (2007)Compilation albums Aretha's Gold (1969) · Aretha's Greatest Hits (1971) · The Best of Aretha Franklin (1973) · Aretha Sings the Blues (1980) · Greatest Hits (1980–1994) (1994) · Greatest Hits (1998) · Aretha's Best (2001) · Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul (2007) · Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen (2007) · A Deeper Love: The Best of Aretha Franklin (2009) · The Great American Songbook (2011)Box sets Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings (1992) · Take A Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia (2011)Singles "Precious Lord (Part 1)" (1959) · "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" (1961) · "I Surrender, Dear" (1962) · "Try a Little Tenderness" (1962) · "Say It Isn't So" (1963) · "Skylark" (1963) · "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" (1964) · "One Step Ahead" (1965) · "You Made Me Love You" (1965) · "Mockingbird" (1967) · "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" (1967) · "Respect" (1967) · "Baby I Love You" (1967) · "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (1967) · "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" · "Chain of Fools" (1967) · "Satisfaction" (1968) · "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" (1968) · "Think" (1968) · "You Send Me" (1968) · "I Say a Little Prayer" (1968) · "The Weight" (1969) · "Tracks of My Tears" (1969) · "Gentle on My Mind" (1969) · "Share Your Love with Me" (1969) · "Eleanor Rigby" (1969) · "Call Me" (1970) · "Son of a Preacher Man" (1970) · "The Thrill Is Gone" (1970) · "Don't Play That Song" (1970) · "You're All I Need to Get By" (1971) · "Bridge over Troubled Water" (1971) · "Spanish Harlem" (1971) · "Rock Steady" (1971) · "Day Dreaming" (1972) · "Wholy Holy" (1972) · "Angel" (1973) · "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" (1973) · "I'm in Love" (1974) · "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (1974) · "Something He Can Feel" (1976) · "Break It to Me Gently" (1977) · "What a Fool Believes" (1981) · "It's My Turn" (1981) · "Jump to It" (1982) · "Get It Right" (1983) · Freeway of Love" (1985) · "Who's Zoomin' Who" (1985) · "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" (1985) · "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1986) · "Jimmy Lee" (1986) · "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (1987) · "Oh Happy Day" (1988) · "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" (1989) · "Everyday People" (1991) · "Someday We'll All Be Free" (1992) · "A Deeper Love" (1993) · "Willing to Forgive" (1994) · "A Rose Is Still a Rose" (1998) · "Wonderful" (2003) · "Put You Up on Game" (2007)Record labels Related topics 
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