Original upload date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 21:55:22 GMT
Chesterfield Supper Club: The Perry Como Show. December 18, 1949.
With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra.
"I Can Dream, Can't I?," is a popular song written by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal that was
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published in 1937. It was included in a flop musical, Right This Way. Tommy Dorsey released a hit recording of it the same year, but it was in the postwar years that the song gained its greatest success. Harry James recorded a version in December 1937 for Brunswick.
The best-known version was recorded by the Andrews Sisters and Gordon Jenkins' orchestra on July 15, 1949, and released by Decca Records as catalog number 24705. It first reached the Billboard charts on September 16, 1949, reaching number one on all three of the magazine's main pop charts at the time (Best Sellers in Stores, Most Played by Jockeys, and Most Played in Jukeboxes).
