The song of the day for Sunday, August 10, 2025, is “Street of Dreams.”
About This Song
“Street of Dreams” was written in 1932 by Victor Young and Sam M. Lewis. The song has a classic Depression-era sense, where love is one of the few things that may be impossible for those with money, but “no one is poor as long as love is sure.” Bing Crosby was the first singer to record “Street of Dreams”, though the Russ Columbo recording was also popular.
About This Version
Tony Bennett and Ralph Sharon recorded “Street of Dreams” on October 28, 1959, for the album Tony Sings For Two, released in 1961.
Bennett wrote about making this album in The Good Life.
I always wanted to be unpredictable, and so for my next project, I decided to go in the opposite direction from the big orchestral albums I’d been doing lately and cut an intimate piano-vocal album with Ralph Sharon. We booked time in the studio and pored through music books, trying one tune after another. The arrangements were spontaneous, and we finished each song in one or two takes. In one afternoon we laid down sixteen tunes—which must be some kind of record—twelve of which made it onto the album, which became 1961’s Tony Sings for Two. Mitch Miller showed up at the start of these sessions, furious that I was really going through with it. When he saw that there was no dissuading me, he turned to Frank Laico and said, “I’m leaving. I can’t support this.” Tony Sings for Two turned out to be one of my finest records ever.
“Street of Dreams,” as well as Tony Sings For Two, is available on Apple Music.
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