The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
| "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" | ||||
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| Single by Carly Simon | ||||
| from the album Coming Around Again | ||||
| B-side | "As Time Goes By " (US) "As Time Goes By" (UK) |
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| Released | 1987 | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Genre | Pop, adult contemporary | |||
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5:00 4:20 (single version) |
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| Label | Arista | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Carly Simon Jacob Brackman |
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"The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" is the third single from Carly Simon's 1987 album Coming Around Again. The song was written by Simon and produced by John Boylan. Simon performed the song at her iconic 1987 concert Live From Martha's Vineyard.
The song is one of Simon's biggest latter period AC hits, and as a result is included on multiple compilations of her work, which include 1995's 3-disc box set Clouds in My Coffee, the UK import The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better, the 2-disc retrospective Anthology, 2004's single disc Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits, and 2014's Playlist: The Very Best of Carly Simon.
The title references the line "The stuff that dreams are made of" from The Maltese Falcon, and, second-handedly, Shakespeare: In Act IV of The Tempest, Prospero says "We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep".
No official music video was made for this song, though a video was created and directed during a VHS recording of the Martha's Vineyard concert in mid-1988.
The song peaked at #8 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, where it lasted for seventeen weeks. The song also charted in Ireland, peaking at #28.
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