Day Dreaming (song)

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“Day Dreaming”
Single by Aretha Franklin
from the album Young, Gifted and Black
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
"Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)"
(1972)
"Day Dreaming"
(1972)
"All The King's Horses"
(1972)

"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
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