dream a little dream of me

"Dream a Little Dream of Me" was recorded for the Mamas & the Papas April 1968 album release The Papas & The Mamas. The group had often sung the song for fun, having been familiarized with it by member Michelle Phillips, whose father had been friends with the song's co-writer, Fabian Andre, in Mexico City where Michelle Phillips' family had resided when she was a young girl. "Mama" Cass Elliot suggested to group leader John Phillips that the group record "Dream a Little Dream of Me"; according to him she was unhappy while recording the song, objecting to its campiness, but Elliot herself would later tell Melody Maker: "I tried to sing it like it was 1943 and somebody had just come in and said, 'Here's a new song.' I tried to sing it as if it were the first time."


Ozzie Nelson version. 1931
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry3G_JpxDco

Dream a Little Dream - Eddie Vedder (ukulele version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twv7z0_STCM

Sophie Madeleine (Ukulele version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEAWqKr0Bjs
Nat King Cole trio 1947
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIZG7hzQ6_4

Ella Fitzgerald 1963
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDfe9dn59Mk

Sylvie Vartan - Nostalgia 1969
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8jCB1grN-c

Anki: Elän yhä muistoissain 1969
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_V3cVoCM1Y

Lucie Bílá Hvězdy jako hvězdy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjQfk020PS8

Michael Buble - Dream a Little Dream of Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asDvLON9PUU

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• Ozzie Nelson
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[mctrmt]

The mustache twirl is the icing on the cake. No, the mustache twirl is the cake and the song is the icing.

[weegingayin]

@mctrmt Cats and men have one thing in common... whiskers

[waterdog226]

It is a great song indeed.

[weegingayin]

@waterdog226 From the list in the description it popular with Uke players

[TUCKERZONE]

Great Interpretation Weeyin

[ljped]

A unique sounding version of this song................well done!

[MrJoncando]

Oi Tiny Tim..who gave ya those 'pro-tools'..??

used with wit & imagination old chap..top dog :>))

[Rutle]

Love the vocals and tempo on this nice uke melody too.

[coolkayaker1]

@weegingayin Thanks, man. Hey, I love your videos. So creative. Cheers!

[ctrymaus]

@weegingayin Hee! My favourite Sherlock Holmes *now* is Benedict Cumberbatch in the 21st-century "Sherlock" on BBC One. I *was* swearing up-and-down that only Jeremy Brett could ever be Sherlock Holmes, but I've been converted. :-p

[weegingayin]

@ctrymaus I think I just might run with your interpretation... yes I was doing a Professor James Moriarty moustache twirl. He was so jealous of Sherlock playing the violin he took up the ukulele, and it is a little known fact that "dream a little dream" was a song he sang to that exotic dancer and femme fatale Mata Hari when he attempted to woo her and win her away from Holmes :-)