What's not to love about this classic.....lol

http://www.youtube.com/wa...c3Sa4n0rS8

^^ I agree with that...

I was jammin' my ass off to this the other day on the 80s on 8 on XM!!! Love this song.

I remember the video. I really did think the singer was black back then.

dannyd5050 said:

U didn't remember him from the song "Instant Replay"?


The video for this song is really good. MTV used to play the hell out of it. What was the name of the movie it was featured in?
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This was one of my favorite songs from 1984. Dan had such a soulful voice.

diamondpearl1 said:

Embed those youtube videos.

Love it! Takes me back, back, back!

daPrettyman said:

Nope. I'll have to check out the video you posted when I get home.
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The album it came off had some great, if now very dated, fast paced pop cuts. "I can dream about you" is of course, really from "streets of fire", but it got put on the album of the same name regardless. Obvious marketing ploy LOL. Because of this, it sounds out of place on the album, as that cut still sounds quite fresh.

"We are the young" was one of the cuts off the album:



"Rage to live" and "I'm not a rolling stone" are my favs. Great songs, particually for those who love that hi nrg mid 80's pop fluff LOL

Definitely an '80s' classic.

Catchy tune.

daPrettyman said:

Dude, I have no recollection of this song whatsoever...

^^You don't remember "Instant Replay"? That was a huge disco hit back in 1978 He had another big disco hit in 1979,"Vertigo/Relight My Fire" which is actually my favorite song by him.

daPrettyman said:

"I Can Dream About You" was featured in this 1984 film,released in the summer of that year:

daPrettyman said:

Can't find any soundtrack where it appeared in :

www.discogs.com/artist/Dan+Hartman

www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.d...878~1~T000
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SoulAlive said:

Dude, I was probably listening to this around that time:

dannyd5050 said:

The group which you see in the movieclip posted above are called "The Sorels"
and includes actors Stoney Jackson (leadsinger) / Robert Townsend / Lee Ving / Grand L. Bush /
and there's even a 5th member credited by actor Mykelti Williamson :

www.imdb.com/title/tt0088194

Back then when i saw the clip first, i actually thought that the leadsinger in the clip was UK-artist David Grant.
But once he puts off his sunglasses i could see it was someone else, lol.

dannyd5050 said:

SoulAlive said:

The whole movie can be watched online in HQ here : http://stagevu.com/video/hugygadfizom

dannyd5050 said:

some interesting trivia about this song...

In early 1984,Dan Hartman offered this song to Daryl Hall and John Oates.He presented it to them but they declined it.Their new album was already finished and they had no room for it.Plus,in those days,they pretty much wrote and produced their own material.In 2004,Hall and Oates finally recorded this song,changing the lyrics slightly,and it appeared on their 'Our Kind Of Soul' CD.Here's a live performance by Hall and Oates...

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I loooove "I Can Dream About You". What a great song! I never knew that Dan Hartman also sang "Instant Replay". I remember that song when it was being played on the radio. It was quite popular (another great song)! I didn't even know that Dan Hartman sang "Instant Replay" until daPrettyman pointed it out.

psychodelicide said:

Yeah,"Instant Replay" was a big hit in the disco era.I remember it well

SoulAlive said:

I might have to get this DVD. Do you know if it has the video on it? Wasn't Stoney Jackson one of the backup dancers in the video for this song?

Sadly Dan Passed away some years ago.

daPrettyman said:

Yeah that was Stoney Jackson pantomiming the lead vocals and backing him up was Mykelti Williamson (The Bronx Zoo,Waiting To Exhale, Heat), Grand L. Bush (Colors, Die Hard, Hollywood Shuffle, Lethal Weapon) and Robert Townsend ( Partners In Crime, Hollywood Shuffle, The 5 Heartbeats)

diamondpearl1 said:

I think the movie performance by the black group is what made people think that it was a black man singing.

Hell, I thought Michael Pare was actually singing in Eddie And The Cruisers!

dannyd5050 said:

I used to have that book on cassette. That was a jammin' album. I wish they would reissue it. I can't find a decent copy anywhere.

IAintTheOne said:

Unfortunately...

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daPrettyman said:

I had heard "Instant Replay" years earlier but didn't know who sang it at the time. In 1984, I thought Dan Hartman was a black guy also.
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