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Ending today by listening to a pair of same name songs, Aerosmith’s “Dream On” & The Oak Ridge Boys’ “Dream On”, while checking under the hood of this Ford (photographed by OC,SHer CHRIS L S at the 2015 Ocean Gate Car Show) for WorkTruck Wednesday….

#1 “Dream On” | Aerosmith
Written by lead singer Steven Tyler, this power ballad was released 06/27/1973 from the band’s self-titled debut album. That year, this song peaked at #59 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but was a smash in the group’s native Boston MA, where it was the #1 single of the year for WBZ-FM, #5 of the year on WRKO-AM & #16 of the year WMEX-AM. The album version was re-issued in January 1976; that year, the hit peaked at #6 on the BH 100. In a 2011 interview, Tyler noted he got the chordage for the song from memories of listening to his Dad play classical music when he was a 3-year-old kid. (My favorite song of this group came 20 years later: 1993’s “Livin’ On The Edge”.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyfNHlqymP8

#2 “Dream On” | Oak Ridge Boys
6 & 3 years respectively after the releases of Aerosmith’s song, this single hit the airwaves 08/18/1979, spent 13 weeks on the country charts & peaked at #7; it crossed over & reached #45 on the Adult Contemporary chart. This song was the band’s 7th country Top 10 (the 1st to NOT make the Top 5) & was followed by greater success with a run of Top 5 tunes through late 1985, including 12 chart toppers. ORB’s “Dream On” is actually a cover; written by Dennis Lambert & Brian Potter, this song was originally released in 1974 by The Righteous Brothers, but it only reached #32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.