Bob McGrath -- Beautiful Dreamer (audio)

Bob McGrath (now of Sesame Street) singing Stephen Foster's Beautiful Dreamer. From the album Home Sweet Home, a 1966 CBS Japan release.

The pictures are from the album jacket, sleeve, and insert. Half of the songs on this LP are in Japanese, the other half are in English, all are on the theme of home. Such a soothing, comforting album. :-)

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[UglySean]

I would love to get the courage to phone him up to thank him for all he's done, what he's meant to me even to this day.

Yeah his number's in the book. But... he's almost like a god to me and I'm just shy.

[kostrofs]

@UglySean well, i'm sure he would appreciate a note through his youtube channel. sesamestreetbob is really him.

[celestialmoongoddess]

Such a beautiful singing voice, one that never faded over time either.

You are so lucky to have this album!

[Tricia090909]

Living alone now I love to hear the songs of yesteryear. When I was a little girl my father used to sing this to me. Thank you for posting this and bringing a beautiful memory to mind.

[oliveranthonyrowland]

@hajune

Even so, he didn't do a bad job, what with this one and Oh Susannah, My Old Kentucky Home, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, Gentle Annie etc. among around 200 songs...

[MrYoGhost]

that's beautiful

[davidhalldurham]

@Lyndon1947 Sad but true, Lyndon. Foster died after falling from his bed in a flophouse hotel in the Bowery, NYC. He literally had just a few pennies in his pocket. He was only 37 years old. It breaks your heart.

[nancyfloressantos]

Great classic oldie...........treasured and cherished forever.

[Lyndon1947]

His (Foster's) insight into the human condition and the agony of elusive beauty and love was both expressed in his gifts to the world and his need to assuage the pain (of elusiveness) chemically. It does not follow that a dense and cheery folk would be able to emulate him without drinking. We have plenty of their work already. Sensitivity is a mixed blessing.

[hajune]

@Lyndon1947 Stephen Foster was a homeless hopeless alcholic in New York in his latter days. What a shame. Certainly he would have written many more classics with his amazing gift. Saw the program about him on the History Channel

[Lyndon1947]

@ Hajune

You cannot be serious?

[tlb1383]

OMG! BOB?! squeel