Day Dreaming (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Day Dreaming


Artist = Aretha Franklin
from Album = Young, Gifted and Black
B-side = "I've Been Loving You Too Long"
Released = February, 1972
Format = 7" single
Recorded =
Genre = Soul
Length = 4:00
Label = Atlantic Records
Writer = Aretha Franklin
Producer = Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler
Certification = Gold
Last single = "Rock Steady"
(1971)
This single = "Day Dreaming"
(1972)
Next single = "All the King's Horses"
(1972)
Misc = "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. 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 version

The song has been covered by Mary J. Blige, Natalie Cole, Will Downing, Penny Ford, Michel'le, and Corinne Bailey Rae.