Fred Neil worked with Bobby Darin on the Brill building demo of "Dream Lover." He did not play on the session for the recording that was released.

Darin's producer when he recorded "Dream Lover" was Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records. Ertegun, like most producers in the 50s and 60s, had a pool of NY studio musicians that he called on. It could have been any of those.