"Dreamin'" | ||||
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Single by Vanessa Williams | ||||
from the album The Right Stuff | ||||
B-side | "The Right Stuff" (instrumental) | |||
Released | August 16, 1988 | |||
Format | 12" | |||
Recorded | 1986 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 5:25 (album version) 4:25 (single edit) |
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Label | Wing | |||
Writer(s) | Lisa Montgomery, Geneva Paschal | |||
Producer(s) | Donald Robinson | |||
Vanessa Williams singles chronology | ||||
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"Dreamin'" is a song written by Lisa Montgomery and Geneva Paschal and originally performed by the family group Guinn in 1986.
In 1988, Vanessa Williams recorded the song and released it as a single from her debut album, The Right Stuff. The single was Williams' first top 40 and first number-one hit on the Billboard R&B chart, where it stayed at the top of the chart for two weeks. On the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart, "Dreamin'" peaked at number eight. The song also reached No. 74 on the British Single Charts, No. 40 in the Netherlands and No. 19 in New Zealand.