Sweet Dreams (Patsy Cline song)
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| "Sweet Dreams" | ||
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| Single by Patsy Cline | ||
| from the album 'The Patsy Cline Story' | ||
| Released | 1963 | |
| Recorded | 1963 | |
| Genre | Country music/Pop music | |
| Label | Decca Records | |
| Writer(s) | Don Gibson | |
| Producer(s) | Owen Bradley | |
| Chart positions | ||
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#5 CO./#44 Pop/#15 A.C. |
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| Patsy Cline singles chronology | ||
| "Leavin On Your Mind" | "Sweet Dreams" | "Faded Love" |
"Sweet Dreams" or "Sweet Dreams (Of You)" is a famous Country/Pop ballad written by Don Gibson and was released as a single by Patsy Cline in 1963.
Between late 1962 and early 1963, Patsy Cline was recording songs for her next upcoming album called Faded Love , which was set for release in late March 1963. However on March 5, Cline died in a plane crash on the way home form a gig in Kansas City so therefore, the album was never released. Instead, her label issued a double album entitled "The Patsy Cline Story" in the summer of 1963, still a best seller in her discography. However, "Sweet Dreams" was released to the public and became a big Crossover hit, making it to #5 on the Country charts and to #44 on the Pop charts. It also peaked on the U.S. Adult Contemporary charts at #15. This song was followed by two other songs that were planned for release on Cline's upcoming album: "Leavin' On Your Mind" and "Faded Love", which both became hits. It was said that Cline did not like the use of the violins in the song because she feared she was becoming too pop for her Country audiences. But upon hearing the song after the playbacks the night she recorded it, she supposidly held a record up of her first record and "Sweet Dreams" and proclaimed "Well, here it is: The first and the last." Years later, Emmylou Harris recorded her own version of the song and it became a hit. Reba McEntire closed her concert shows with this song for years and it was also featured on the Tammy Wynette record "D-I-V-O-R-C-E".
