Day Dreaming (song)
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“Day Dreaming” | |||||
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Single by Aretha Franklin from the album Young, Gifted and Black |
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Released | 1972 | ||||
Format | 7" single | ||||
Genre | Soul | ||||
Length | 3:59 | ||||
Label | Atlantic Records | ||||
Writer(s) | Aretha Franklin | ||||
Producer | Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler | ||||
Certification | Gold | ||||
Aretha Franklin singles chronology | |||||
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"Day Dreaming" is a soul single by American singer Aretha Franklin. Released from her album, Young, Gifted and Black, it spent two weeks at the top of the Hot Soul Singles chart in April 1972 and peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. Donny Hathaway plays electric piano on the single. It has been rumored that the song is about Temptation's singer Dennis Edwards. It would be her twelth number one soul single while at Atlantic Records and sold over one million copies.
[edit] Chart positions
Charts | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 5 |
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles | 1 (2 weeks) |
Preceded by "In the Rain" by The Dramatics |
Billboard's Hot Soul number one single April 22 - April 29, 1972 |
Succeeded by "I'll Take You There" by The Staple Singers |