Day Dreaming

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

Young, Gifted and Black · Track 2 of 12

Released

January 24, 1972

Duration

3:59

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From the album: Young, Gifted and Black