Single:
Dream Weaver entered the Australian singles chart* on 19 April 1976 and peaked at #24.
Album:
The song is on The Dream Weaver which entered the Australian albums chart* on 10 May 1976 and peaked at #31.
Songwriter:
Gary Wright
Producer:
Gary Wright
Record label of Australian release:
Warner Bros
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Gary Wright performs Dream Weaver with Ringo Starr and His All starr Band live at the Greek Theater in LA. Includes: Gary Wright, Ringo Starr, Colin Hay, Billy Squier, Hamish Stuart, Edgar Winter and Gregg Bisonette. Gary explains how his assocation with George Harrison led to the song:
Wikipedia:
American singer, songwriter, musician and composer Gary Wright is best known for his 1976 hit songs Dream Weaver and Love Is Alive, and for his role in helping establish the synthesizer as a leading instrument in rock and pop music.
Wright’s breakthrough album, The Dream Weaver, came after he spent seven years in London as, alternately, a member of the British blues rock band Spooky Tooth and a solo artist on A&M Records.
While in England, he played keyboards on George Harrison’s triple album All Things Must Pass, so beginning a friendship that inspired the Indian religious themes and spirituality inherent in Wright’s subsequent songwriting.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Wright
Lyrics:
I’ve just closed my eyes again
Climbed aboard the dream weaver train
Driver take away my worries of today
And leave tomorrow behind
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe we can reach the morning light
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