Hall & Oates – You Make My Dreams Come True

“You Make My Dreams” – Single by Daryl Hall & John Oates from the album Voices, with B-side “Gotta Lotta Nerve (Perfect Perfect)”. Released April/May 1981 Single. Album was released in 1980.

Many movies and TV shows have used this song, including The Office, Glee, Step Brothers and The Wedding Singer. In the 2009 film 500 Days of Summer, it is part of a group dance scene on a city street with an animated bird. It plays under the end credits of the 2018 movie Ready Player One, which uses lots of ’80s music.

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

The song reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981.

AllMusic Review:

The genius of Hall & Oates’ pop-hit success in the early 1980’s lay in their ability to offer a little something to every pop music fan, often pleasing them all in the same song.

A great example of this skill is “You Make My Dreams,” an effervescent hit from Voices that blends rock, soul and new wave into a chart-ready confection. The lyrics present a romantic declaration from a left-of-center stance, using offbeat language and phrasing to put across its traditional message: “What I got — full stock of thoughts and dreams that scatter/And you pull them all together/And how I can’t explain oh yeah/Well, well, you /you make my dreams come true.”

The music is similarly edgy, presenting a melody that pits staccato verses fulls of odd stops and starts with a smooth, soulful chorus. Hall & Oates’ recording of “You Make My Dreams” is a study in pop music fusion: it starts with a punchy, vaguely Indian-sounding electric keyboard hook that is fleshed out reggae-styled rhythm guitar, a stomping one-two rock beat and scads of doo-wop inspired vocal harmony frills.

All these little hooks fuse together to make a delightful, genre-hopping pop confection that became a top-five hit in 1981.

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Lyrics:
What I want, you’ve got
And it might be hard to handle
But like a flame that burns the candle
The candle feeds the flame
Yeah, yeah, what I’ve got, full stock
Of thoughts and dreams that scatter
If you pull them all together
And a-how, I can’t explain

Oh yeah, well, well you (Ooh, ooh, ooh ooh ooh)
You make a-my dreams come true
(You) You (You, you, ooh ooh ooh, you)
Well, well, well you (Ooh, ooh, ooh ooh ooh)
Oh yeah, a-you make a-my dreams come true
(You, you, you, ooh ooh ooh, you)
Well yeah

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