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1981 single by Hall & Oates
"You Make My Dreams ", sometimes incorrectly referred to as "You Make My Dreams Come True ", is a song by the American duo Hall & Oates , taken from their ninth studio album, Voices (1980). The song reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981.[ 1] The track received 154,000 digital sales between 2008 and 2009 according to Nielsen SoundScan .[ 2]
In popular culture
The song was featured in the films The Wedding Singer (1998), Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003), Step Brothers (2008) (500) Days of Summer (2009), Despicable Me 2 (2013), Eddie the Eagle (2016), and Ready Player One (2018). In 2012, it appeared in an eHarmony commercial. It appears in a 2017 commercial for Applebee's . The song also appears in The Office , Modern Family and Young Sheldon . The song appears in a 2018 commercial for Dick's Sporting Goods , promoting a Father's Day sale,[ 3] [ 4] as well as a 2019 commercial for Google Maps and KFC Australia.[ 5] In addition, the song was used by the Toronto Maple Leafs during their home games in the 2018–19 and 2019–20 seasons as the team goal song.[ 6] The Milwaukee Brewers used the song during home games during the 2019 season, playing the song after winning a game.
The song has appeared three times in 2020 TV commercials, appearing in a Google Maps ad that ran during the 92nd Academy Awards on February 9, for American Family Insurance , and in a cover version for an ad by Michelob Ultra about the restart of the 2019-20 NBA season .
Personnel
Daryl Hall – lead vocals and backing vocals, synthesizer
John Oates – electric guitar and backing vocals
John Siegler – bass and backing vocals
Jerry Marotta – drums
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Chart (1981)
Rank
US Billboard Hot 100[ 12]
43
US Cash Box [ 13]
54
References
^ AllMusic Hall & Oates chart history
^ Donahue, Ann (November 3, 2010). "Hall & Oates Embrace Their Hipster Faithful" . Billboard . Retrieved August 12, 2017 .
^ "Applebee's Tapped Steak & Twisted Potatoes TV Commercial, 'Dreams Come True' " . ispot.tv . Retrieved November 19, 2017 .
^ " 'Dick's Sporting Goods TV Commercial, 'Father's Day Best Price Guarantee' " . ispot.tv . Retrieved June 7, 2018 . .
^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPW3gw2UgjU
^ "Leafs Offence Putting on a Show" . Toronto Star . Retrieved September 30, 2018 . .
^ "Daryl Hall John Oates Chart History (Hot 100)" . Billboard . Retrieved June 1, 2017.
^ "Daryl Hall John Oates Chart History (Mainstream Rock)" . Billboard . Retrieved March 30, 2017.
^ "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending July 18, 1981" . Archived from the original on September 17, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .{{cite web }}
: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )Cash Box magazine .
^ "Hall + Oates" . wweb.uta.edu .
^ "You make my dreams come true" . wweb.uta.edu .
^ "Top 100 Hits of 1981/Top 100 Songs of 1981" . Musicoutfitters.com . Retrieved October 25, 2016 .
^ "Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles," . Cash Box . December 26, 1981. Archived from the original on September 18, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
External links
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