Dream Along With Me ( I'm On My Way To A Star )

Words and Music by Carl Sigman

Roncom Music Co.

Full version recorded 1956 ~

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

and The Ray Charles Singers

Recorded at Webster Hall, New York City

Recording Time 2:50

Recorded June 07, 1956 ~ Matrix No. G2PB 4619 Take 9

Single release: RCA-78/45RPM-20/47-6590

Single Flip Side: "Somebody Up There Likes Me"

US Chart Position No. 85

UK Single release: HMV-78RPM-POP-304 Blue Label ( March 1957 )

Single Flip Side: "Somebody Up There Likes Me"

Album issue: RCA-45RPM-EP "Somebody Up There Likes Me" EPA-903 MONO 1956

Somebody Up There Likes Me / On My Way to a Star

Somebody Up There Likes Me ~ 45 RPM Extended Play Album

Dream Along with Me was born in 1955, when Perry asked some songwriters he knew to come up with a theme for his TV show. 'I thought about what Perry Como meant to me, and to his fans,' Carl Sigman recalls, 'and I tried to capture him in a song. When he told me he had selected 'Dream Along with Me' I was thrilled.' The best part of this recording is that you finally get to hear the complete song, not just the few bars that Perry sang before greeting his TV audience. Among Sigman's other well-known songs are 'Ebb Tide', 'What Now My Love', 'Civilization ( Bongo Bongo Bongo ), and 'Enjoy Yourself ( It's Later Than You Think )'

( notes from "The Incomparable Como" Readers Digest UK compilation 1975 )

| Lyrics | Album Notes | Session | Album Links | CD-Finder |

Theme version recorded 1958 ~

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

and The Ray Charles Singers

Recorded at RCA Victor Studio A , 155 E. 24th Street, New York City

Recording Time 42 sec intro 2:53 total ( with "Accentuate the Positive" )

Recorded March 12, 1958 ~ Matrix No. J2PB-1904 Take 2

SESSION MUSICIANS & CHORAL

March 12, 1958

A&R Joe Reisman

Orchestra

Leader: Mitchell Ayres

Contractor: Henry "Hank" Ross

Sax ~ Harry Terrill

Sax ~ Bernard Kaufman

Sax ~ Philip Zolkind

Sax ~ Wolffe Taninbaum

Sax ~ Stanley Webb

Trumpet ~ Bernie Glow

Trumpet ~ James Milazzo

Trumpet ~ Louis Oles

Trumpet ~ Malven Soloman

Trombone ~ Robert Byrne

Trombone ~ John D'agostino

Trombone ~ Thomas Mitchell

French Horn ~ Fred Klein

French Horn ~ John Barrows

Violin ~ Sylvan Shulman

Violin ~ Jack Zayde

Violin ~ Raoul Poliakin

Violin ~ Mac Ceppos

Violin ~ Tosha Samaroff

Violin ~ Felix Orlewitz

Violin ~ Harry Melnikoff

Violin ~ Max Hollander

Violin ~ Maurice Hershaft

Violin ~ Samuel Rand

Violin ~ Harry Glickman

Violin ~ Harry Urbont

Viola ~ Isadore Zir

Viola ~ Howard Kay

Viola ~ Leon Frengut

Viola ~ Soloman Deutsch

Cello ~ Maurice Brown

Cello ~ Lucien Schmit

Cello ~ Harvey Shapiro

Cello ~ Abram Borodkin

Piano ~ Henry Rowland

Guitar ~ Anthony Mottola

Guitar ~ Danny Perri

Drums ~ Red Sommer

Drums ~ Philip Kraus

Bass ~ Robert Haggart

Harp ~ Gloria Agostini

Choral

Contractor: Ray Charles

EXACT LINE-UP UNIDENTIFIED

Trudy Packer

Sue Singleton

Carla Houston

Joyce De Young

Anne Ryan McCord

Bernice Massi

Alan Sokoloff

James Stuart

Jack Brown

Robert Harris

James Stover

Robert Spiro

Herbert Davidson

Robert Hartman

David Vogel

Leonard Stea

7½" IPS HALF-TRACK "Saturday Night With Mr. C." CPS-153 STEREO ORTHOPHONIC TAPE JULY 1958

Album issue: RCA-LP12 "Saturday Night With Mr. C." LOP / LSO-1004 MONO / STEREO MAY / JULY 1958

Album issue: RCA-UK-LP12 "Dear Perry" RD-27078 MONAURAL 1959

Saturday Night With Mr. C. ~ stereo half-track recording tape edition

Dear Perry ~ The Perry Como Show ( UK Release )

| Lyrics | Album Notes | Session | Album Links | CD-Finder |

Notes: ~ Perry recorded this opening theme for his first full stereophonic album "Saturday Night With Mr. C." in 1958. The full version of this song was recorded June 7, 1956, and charted for Perry at No. 85 on the flip side of his hit single "Somebody Up There Likes Me" which charted at No. 18. But it was "Dream Along With Me" that would become associated with Perry throughout his entire career more than, perhaps, any other song excepting "Ave Maria".