ADD: Mr. Sandman (Bring Me a Dream)

Subject: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Amy
Date: 27 Feb 97 - 08:09 PM

Does anyone have the Words and Chords or Tab to this Andrews Sisters tune?

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Les Blank
Date: 27 Feb 97 - 11:33 PM

I believe it was the MacGuire Sisters -- They sounded somewhat like Patti, Maxine and LaVerne.

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From:
Date: 27 Feb 97 - 11:58 PM

this getting pretty far afield from folk music.There are many other places to find songs by any of those sisters!

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Elsie
Date: 28 Feb 97 - 12:05 AM

I agree, this place will not be able to support requests from pop, rock etc. music hunters.It is already hard to sort out the requests for acoustic singer-songwriters. Isn't there some sort of rule about what gets posted?Every button I click to come in here says 'folk' or 'traditional' I wonder why people don't believe what they read?

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Les Blank
Date: 28 Feb 97 - 06:39 PM

Wow !! The ph suddenly dropped from neutral to ACID. The threads are clearly titled. Don't waste your time opening them if you are not interested !! Try a little tolerance instead of trying to police a public forum. After all is said and done, traditional and folk and ethnic and Celtic and all the other adjectives mean different things to different people. Lighten up Elsie and No-name and live a little,or at least let others .

Les Blank

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 28 Feb 97 - 09:19 PM

Don't lets fight fellers. The DT has officially defined a folk song as anything anyone likes enough to send in. Personally, I can be as snobbish as anyone; as sort-of curator for the DT I'm anything but.

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Elsie
Date: 01 Mar 97 - 10:50 AM

So, dick are you going to put "Mr. Sandman" in the database?And maybe "Yellow Submarine"? And everything by The Beastie Boys? Never mind, I give up-

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Amy
Date: 01 Mar 97 - 02:08 PM

Ya know Dick, Elsie may have a point. In my experience, when it comes to sing-alongs it's hard to beat old Yellow Submarine. Almost everyone knows and loves the song for it's good heart and universal whimsy. Oh, its not as with portent as Kumbaya, or Follow the Drinkin' Gourd, perhaps but uninformed coffeehouse audiences will sing right along, just like it was OK. Now then, as to Mr. Sandman: Perhaps Blank might submit some examples of those many other places to locate this material. I don't happen to know them yet, and what would be just-plain-folksier than sharing such info. Thank you, Dick & Les for riding to my rescue, I agree-if folks sing it...

A

Subject: Lyr Add: MR. SANDMAN (Pat Ballard)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Mar 97 - 02:09 PM

Whether it's folk music or not, it's sure a fun song to sing:

MR. SANDMAN
Artists The Chordettes--(peak Billboard position #1 in 1954)
Words and Music by Pat Ballard

(scat "bung, bung, bung, bung—26 bungs in all)

Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Make him the cutest that I've ever seen (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Give him two lips like roses and clover (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over.

Sandman, I'm so alone
Don't have nobody to call my own
Please turn on your magic beam
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream.

(scat "bung, bung, bung, bung….)

Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream
Make him the cutest that I've ever seen
Give him the word that I'm not a rover
Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over.

Sandman, I'm so alone
Don't have nobody to call my own
Please turn on your magic beam
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream.

(scat "bung, bung, bung, bung)

Mr. Sandman (male voice: "Yesss?) bring us a dream
Give him a pair of eyes with a "come-hither" gleam
Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci
And lots of wavy hair like Liberace

Mr Sandman, someone to hold (someone to hold)
Would be so peachy before we're too old
So please turn on your magic beam
Mr Sandman, bring us, please, please, please
Mr Sandman, bring us a dream.

(scat "bung, bung, bung, bung….)

Transcribed by Ronald E. Hontz

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Amy
Date: 01 Mar 97 - 03:35 PM

Thanks, Joe!

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Les Blank
Date: 01 Mar 97 - 06:08 PM

Thanks, Joe !! It was the Chordettes on the old Arthur Godfrey show. And it is a great song. Somehow I don't quite believe that Elsie is giving UP !!

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Rodney Rawlings
Date: 01 Mar 97 - 09:11 PM

I myself have found this forum very useful for all kinds of music. The folk songs I like I like IMMENSELY, but I also like many other types of songs, and if no one shuts me out, I would like to occasionally use Mudcat for other types of queries. "Sandman" is a great enough record to discuss on any forum, in my opinion. Besides, the categories are often not clear.

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: P.S. (Rawlings)
Date: 02 Mar 97 - 06:22 PM

One aspect of this is that this forum is a great repository of musical knowledge and history, and you never can tell when one of the experts here might know something that will finally enable you to track down what you've been looking for. Perhaps a song you thought was pop or rock or C&W is actually folk-based. But on the other hand, I agree that there is a danger of the forum going off-topic. When I started here, I did not realize the "folk" nature of Mudcat, because I found this page, not the one higher up on the hierarchy. Perhaps it should be announced on every HTML page that the focus is folk, but other types of queries will be tolerated kindly.

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Elsie
Date: 02 Mar 97 - 10:14 PM

Since it is clear that there is no way I can have a 'pure' folk/traditional page-(it couldn't be enforced, even if Dick Greenhaus and the Mudcat Cafe agreed with me), I think that Rawlings idea has some merit....and perhaps someday similar pages will be started for the other catagories of music, and there could be links back and forth to direct people to the best place to make an inquiry. How about it, you 'pop',rock,etc. music fans? Is there anyone willing to start a database of this type for those types of music..?For now, though, I really shall abstain from complaining.(Honest, Les!)

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Elsie
Date: 03 Mar 97 - 12:26 AM

Since it is clear that there is no way I can have a 'pure' folk/traditional page-(it couldn't be enforced, even if Dick Greenhaus and the Mudcat Cafe agreed with me), I think that Rawlings idea has some merit....and perhaps someday similar pages will be started for the other catagories of music, and there could be links back and forth to direct people to the best place to make an inquiry. How about it, you 'pop',rock,etc. music fans? Is there anyone willing to start a database of this type for those types of music..?For now, though, I really shall abstain from complaining.(Honest, Les!)

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: g golgart
Date: 03 Mar 97 - 12:40 AM

Mister (Bb) Sand man (A7) bring me a dream, (D7) Make her complexion like (G7) peaches and cream.

(C7) Give her two lips like (F7) roses in clover

(Bb) The tell me that my lone some (Gb) nights are (F9)

(Bb) Sand man (A7) Im so alone

(D7) Don't have no body to (G7) call my own.

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From:
Date: 03 Mar 97 - 12:44 AM

(Cm) Please (Cm7) turn on your magic (Ebm6) Mister

(Bb) Sand man (c9) bring me (F7) a (Bb)dream.

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Les Blank
Date: 03 Mar 97 - 04:43 PM

Atta girl, Elsie !! You've got a great idea and if I had access to sufficient bandwidth (both electronic and know-how) I'd really try to get involved. My tastes are pretty eclectic -- I'm a music lover !! So far, though, I haven't seen or experienced anything on the Net as good as DT or its mentors!! Please don't leave.

Les Blank

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: toadfrog
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 09:59 PM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 10:08 PM

ummm ---Why?

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 10:46 PM

Isn't folk music just old pop?

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 23 Nov 02 - 03:52 AM

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose ....

Murray

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Gareth
Date: 23 Nov 02 - 03:36 PM

If the Folk sing it - It's folk !!

Gareth

Subject: Lyr Add: MR. SANDMAN (from Homer & Jethro)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 11:07 PM

Transcribed from the sound file at http://www.megspace.com/entertainment/judya/comedy.html

MR. SANDMAN
(As sung by Homer & Jethro)

Mr. Sandman, take back your dream,
The biggest nightmare that I ever seen.
Crackers in bed, she eats like a rabbit,
And, Mr. Sandman, it's a crummy habit.
Red lips I like a lot,
One on the bottom and two on the top.
You gave her a purty face.
Not a wrinkle is out of its place.

Mr. Sandman, she is a scream.
The biggest nose-holes that I've ever seen
Her great big flat feet hurt her when it storms.
Her pigeon toes keep a-peckin' her corns.
Mr. Sandman, get out of here.
I'll take an aspirin and you'll disappear.
Can't you let me be?
I've got a guitar. Stop picking on me.

Subject: RE: Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Ritchie
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 06:35 AM

hello peeps,

I love it when the 'folk' thread pops up. Elsie, not enough blues for my liking but i tell you what, I would nt swap it for the world. It's a bit like an awards speech far far too many people to thank for keeping the mudcat the way it is ..and you all know who you are.. :)

may your God bless you all....and on with the show.

ritchie in from the cold (and I happen to like Mr Sandman)

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: GUEST,Greg Durkin
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 11:12 PM

The last line of the Homer and Jethro parody is a retake on an old bluegrass players' joke, "I'm not a guitar, quit picking on me."

Thanks for the rest of the lyrics, though, Jim - over a space of nearly 40 years, I had forgotten the first four lines of the last verse.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: dianavan
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 09:18 PM

Mr. Sandman is definitely pop (or at least it was) but if people like it and are still singing it, maybe its moved into the folk realm. My mother used to sing it but then she sang songs from Mahalia Jackson and Patsy Cline, too. I sang it to my 27 year old daughter (she had never heard it before) and after she stopped rolling her eyes, she asked me to write down the lyrics. Who knows? Maybe its for the fun of it or maybe its just plain funny.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: M.Ted
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 09:31 AM

For the record, here are the chords in a normal key:

(Pick-up)G7
||C C/B7B7/E7 E7/A7+5 A7/
D7 D7/ G7 G7/C Am6/Ab7 G7/
|C C/B7B7/E7 E7/A7+5 A7/
Dm7 Dm7/ Dm7 Dm7/
Fm7 Fm7/Fm7 Fm7/
C A7/D9 G7/ C C||

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: M.Ted
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 04:34 PM

Rats! I stuck a couple extra measures in there!

(Pick-up)G7

||C C/B7 B7/E7 E7/A7+5 A7/

D7 D7/ G7 G7/C Am6/Ab7 G7/

|C C/B7B7/E7 E7/A7+5 A7/

Dm7 Dm7/Fm7 Fm7/

C- A7-D9 -G7/ C C||

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Mr. Sandman (Send Me A Dream)
From: Mark Clark
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 09:33 PM

I guess this thread should be linked to this one.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Mr. Sandman (Bring Me a Dream)
From: GUEST,Another parody I did:
Date: 30 Jan 18 - 06:37 PM

Mr. Sanders gave me a "D", (boo,hoo,hoo,hoo)
Made me the saddest girl you've ever seen. (boo,hoo,hoo,hoo)
Gave me two tests I racked my brains over, (boo,hoo,hoo,hoo)
And have you read his comments in my folder?
Sanders, he is so mean! (boo,hoo,hoo,hoo)
He even referred me to the dean. (boo,hoo,hoo,hoo)
I hate trigonometry!
Mr. Sanders gave me a "D".
(boo,hoo,hoo,hoo, boo,hoo,hoo,hoo....)

Mr. Sanders ruined my dreams, (boo,hoo,hoo,hoo)
Now I'll never be the homecoming queen! (boo,hoo,hoo,hoo)
He wants to prove he's not a pushover,
Now my valedictory hopes are over.
Sanders, I'm so depressed,
Don't have no way to vent my stress.
I can forget my Ph.D.,
Mr. Sanders, gave me a "D".
(boo,hoo,hoo,hoo, boo,hoo,hoo,hoo....)

Mr. Sanders, (class?) I hate this school!
Gives me a lot of stress, it is totally cruel!
If I had mega-brains like Stephen Hawking
Maybe I'd get an "A" and not your mocking!
Mr. Sanders, somehow I'd like (somehow I'd like)
To be a senior before I'm too old!
Why do you have to be so mean?
Mr Sanders gave me, can't believe,
Mr Sanders, gave me a "D".
(boo,hoo,hoo,hoo, boo,hoo,hoo,hoo....)


http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/thechordettes12.shtml

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Mr. Sandman (Bring Me a Dream)
From: Jim McLean
Date: 02 Feb 18 - 04:48 AM

I used to play this on the piano .... still have the sheet music.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Mr. Sandman (Bring Me a Dream)
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 05 May 22 - 09:22 AM

Wonder what happened to ole Dianavan?

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Mr. Sandman (Bring Me a Dream)
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Aug 23 - 02:21 PM

Does anyone know who did an entire album of popular songs (50's to 60's) where they changed the lyrics to funny stuff. All were by male singer on the album my stepfather had when I was 12/13 ('61-'63) Songs were different artist originally I think. One was Mr. Sandman. Some of the words cracker's in bed, she eats like a rabbit...now Mr. Sandman that's a crummy habit.

Any ideas?

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Mr. Sandman (Bring Me a Dream)
From: Helen
Date: 07 Aug 23 - 02:53 PM

My first thought would be Nervous Norvus whose most famous song was Transfusion which we owned on a 78 rpm record when I was a child. I think from memory that the B side was called Dig. I'm having trouble finding a song list for him so I really don't know if he did a parody of Mr Sandman.

Coincidentally, yesterday I just watched the movie Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and Nervous Norvus was mentioned once.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Mr. Sandman (Bring Me a Dream)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Aug 23 - 02:58 PM

Guest: That would be Homer & Jethro. The exact lyrics they sang are posted above in this thread. Most of what they performed were parodies of current popular songs--sorta like the Wierd Al Yankovic of their day, but with a country twang. "Homer" Haynes played guitar and "Jethro" Burns played mandolin. They were also excellent instrumentalists.

Subject: RE: ADD: Mr. Sandman (Bring Me a Dream)
From: Helen
Date: 07 Aug 23 - 03:19 PM

Thanks Jim.

I committed the Mudcat sin of not reading the thread before posting, but I assumed that the thread was about the original song and not the parody song. My bad!

Subject: RE: ADD: Mr. Sandman (Bring Me a Dream)
From: GUEST,jim bainbridge
Date: 07 Aug 23 - 03:19 PM

from Homer & Jethro....

'How much is that doggie in the window
With the basketball nose on its face
You know what a basketball nose is?
It dribbles all over the place'

Subject: RE: ADD: Mr. Sandman (Bring Me a Dream)
From: PHJim
Date: 09 Aug 23 - 01:01 AM

Mr.Soundman - Shelly Posen

(C) Test, test, test, test, (Am) test, test, test, test, (Dm) test, test, test, test, (G7) test :||

Mr. (C) Soundman, (B7) mic me well, please
(E7) Give me the best noise-to-(A7)signal DBs
(D7) Take me away to pure (G7) audio heaven
(C) With a Shure microphone S(Ab7)M5(G7)7
         (C) Soundman, (B7) please tweak the tone
         (E7) So I don't sound like an (A7) old gramophone
         (D7) Enhance, compress, or emu(Fm)late
         Mr. (C) Soundman (D7) make me (G7) sound (C) great. (G7)

(C) Test, test, test, test, (Am) test, test, test, test, (Dm) test, test, test, test, (G7) test :||

Mr. (C) Soundman, ( Yesss?) (B7) I'll sound superb
(E7) If you just give me a (A7) touch of reverb
(D7) But not too much or I (G7) know I'll sound spacy
(C) And watch the bottom so it's (Ab7) not too (G7) bass-y
       (C) Soundman, (B7) I beg you, please
       (E7) When I'm on stage or re(A7)cording CDs
       Tran(Dm)sistor, tube, or solid (Fm) state
       Mr. (C) Soundman, (F)make me—(C) please, please, (F) please—
       Mr. (C) Soundman, (D7) make me (G7) sound (C) great! (G7)

(C) Test, test, test, test, (Am) test, test, test, test, (Dm) test, test, test, test, (G7) test :||

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm9r_FutzDU