Day Dreaming

Day Dreaming a song by Aretha Franklin on Foxsoundi

Day Dreaming by Aretha Franklin

About Day Dreaming

"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 and number 11 on the Easy Listening singles chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 61 song for 1972. Donny Hathaway plays electric piano on the song and Hubert Laws plays the flute. The single version omits the jazzy daydream-like music heard at the beginning and the ending of the track on the album .

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About this song

Credited to: Aretha Franklin
Album: Mellow Music · Track 15 of 50
Released: October 14, 2023
Duration: 3:59
On Last.fm: 326,035 listeners on Last.fm

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From the album: Mellow Music

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There’s No Easy Way by James Ingram ,
Just a Song Before I Go by Crosby, Stills & Nash ,
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Never Let Her Slip Away by Andrew Gold ,
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Lost Without Your Love by Bread ,
Desperado by Linda Ronstadt ,
Sideshow by Blue Magic ,
The Best of Me by David Foster ,
Every Which Way but Loose by Eddie Rabbitt ,
Move Me No Mountain by Dionne Warwick ,
I Need You by America , George Martin ,
The Lady Wants to Know by Michael Franks ,
Lotta Love by Nicolette Larson ,
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You Are the Woman by Firefall ,
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If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot ,
Dance with Me by Orleans ,
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