You Make My Dreams

"You Make My Dreams" is a song by the American duo Hall & Oates, taken from their ninth studio album, Voices (1980). The song reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981.[1] The track received 154,000 digital sales between 2008 and 2009 according to Nielsen SoundScan.[2]

"You Make My Dreams"
Dutch vinyl single
Single by Hall & Oates
from the album Voices
B-side"Gotta Lotta Nerve (Perfect Perfect)"
ReleasedApril 1981
Recorded1980
GenrePop rock
Length3:06
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Daryl Hall
  • John Oates
Hall & Oates singles chronology
"Kiss on My List"
(1980)		 "You Make My Dreams"
(1981)		 "Private Eyes"
(1981)
Music video
"You Make My Dreams" on YouTube

The song has sold over 1 million copies in the UK to date, despite having never charted in the country.

Composition

John Oates said the song came about "through a happy accident, my guitar player friend of mine and myself were jamming in the dressing room, and I started playing a delta blues and he started playing a Texas swing, and we put them together, and all of a sudden into my head popped "you make my dreams." I just started singing it. I don't know why, but I did. And it sounded really cool and everyone liked it. It was as simple as that."[3]

Daryl Hall also commented on the iconic piano riff that opens the song and the distinctive sound that is generated by a Yamaha CP30 in an interview with the BBC on the 40th anniversary of the song’s release. “It's a very unusual edition of a Yamaha called the Yamaha CP30. There were very few of them made and it wasn't out for very long. Over the years mine got destroyed [and] I cannot duplicate that sound other than with the actual instrument. So I had to search and search until, quite recently, I found one.”[4]

Personnel
  • Daryl Hall – lead vocals and backing vocals, synthesizer
  • John Oates – electric guitar and backing vocals
  • John Siegler – bass and backing vocals
  • Jerry Marotta – drums

Charts

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[16] 3× Platinum 210,000
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[17] Gold 45,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[18] 2× Platinum 1,200,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References
  1. AllMusic Hall & Oates chart history
  2. Donahue, Ann (November 3, 2010). "Hall & Oates Embrace Their Hipster Faithful". Billboard. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
  3. MacIntosh, Dan (April 7, 2011). "John Oates : Songwriter Interviews". Songfacts. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
  4. "Hall And Oates: How You Make My Dreams became a streaming colossus". BBC News. June 10, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  5. "Applebee's Tapped Steak & Twisted Potatoes TV Commercial, 'Dreams Come True'". ispot.tv. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  6. "'Dick's Sporting Goods TV Commercial, 'Father's Day Best Price Guarantee'". ispot.tv. Retrieved June 7, 2018..
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  8. McGran, Kevin (September 28, 2018). "Leafs Offence Putting on a Show". Toronto Star. Retrieved September 30, 2018..
  9. "Daryl Hall John Oates Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  10. "Daryl Hall John Oates Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  11. "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending July 18, 1981". Archived from the original on September 17, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)Cash Box magazine.
  12. "Hall + Oates". wweb.uta.edu.
  13. "You make my dreams come true". wweb.uta.edu.
  14. "Top 100 Hits of 1981/Top 100 Songs of 1981". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  15. "Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles". Cash Box. December 26, 1981. Archived from the original on September 18, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  16. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2019 Singles" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved October 4, 2021.
  17. "Danish single certifications – Daryl Hall & John Oates – You Make My Dreams (Come True)". IFPI Danmark. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  18. "British single certifications – Daryl Hall & John Oates – You Make My Dreams". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
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