It’s pretty much impossible to pick just one song so I’ve zeroed in on the very first song that moved me: All I Have To Do is Dream by the Everly Brothers. When the song was released in 1958, I was 11 years old. I wouldn’t have the pleasure of my first kiss for another five years, but judging by my obsession with this song, you’d think I knew what they were singing about.
I remember a family road trip down to Rosarita Beach in Mexico that summer. I had a crush on Bobby — or was it Kenny? — and was thinking about him non-stop. Every time this song came on the radio — which was frequently since it was #1 on the charts for weeks — in the back seat of our Ford station wagon, I would groan and go into spasms of preadolescent angst while my brothers rolled their eyes.
Hearing the song today takes me right back to those tween-age feelings of longing, and a wide, wide world of possibility.
Dream, dream, dream, dream
Dream, dream, dream, dream
When I want you in my arms
When I want you and all your charms
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Dream, dream, dream, dreamWhen I feel blue in the night
And I need you to hold me tight
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
DreamI can make you mine, taste your lips of wine
Anytime night or day
Only trouble is, gee whiz
I’m dreamin’ my life awayI need you so that I could die
I love you so and that is why
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Dream, dream, dream, dream
DreamI can make you mine, taste your lips of wine
Anytime night or day
Only trouble is, gee whiz
I’m dreamin’ my life awayI need you so that I could die
I love you so and that is why
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Dream, dream, dream, dream
Dream, dream, dream, dream
