Australian singles chart:
Dream Lover entered the Kent charts on 13 June 1959 and peaked at #4. The song was #32 on the Top 100 of 1959.
Songwriter:
Bobby Darin
Producers:
Ahmet Ertegun, Jerry Wexler
Record label of Australian release:
London
Bobby Darin on The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS in 1959:
Songfacts:
Dream Lover appealed to adults who appreciated the conservative lyrics and Darin’s wholesome image – he came off as a guy you wouldn’t mind dating your daughter at a time when Elvis was singing A Big Hunk O’ Love. Bobby was 22 when the song was released.
Neil Sedaka played piano on this track, and also the B-side of the single, Bullmoose. Sedaka had a song on the charts called The Diary, but was not yet widely known as a solo artist. Darin was comfortable with Sedaka’s style, and gave him the leeway to play what he thought was right for the track.
Musically, this song was built on a Latin dance rhythm. Darin said of writing it: “I had just discovered the C-Am-F-G7 progression on the piano. I stretched them out and I like the space I felt in there, and the words just flowed.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/bobby-darin/dream-lover
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