Lyr Add: My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time

Subject: Lyr Add: MY DREAMS ARE GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 03:21 PM

A friend of mine asked me to research this song because it was one of her parents' favorites, and she and her sister want to sing it for their parents' anniversary. Having researched it, I suppose I might as well share it with all of you.

MY DREAMS ARE GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME
Words, Mann Curtis; music, Vic Mizzy.
Published by Santly-Joy, Inc., New York, 1944.

Well, what do you know? He smiled at me in my dreams last night
My dreams are getting better all the time.
And, what do you know? He looked at me in a different light.
My dreams are getting better all the time.

To think that we were strangers a couple of nights ago,
And though it's a dream, I never dreamed he'd ever say hello.
Oh, maybe tonight I'll hold him [or "he'll hold me"] tight when the moonbeams shine.
My dreams are getting better all the time.

(Orchestral interlude)

To think that we were strangers a couple of nights ago,
And though it's a dream, I never dreamed he'd ever say hello.
Oh, maybe tonight I'll hold him tight when the moonbeams shine.
My dreams are getting better all the time.

[Above lyrics copied from http://ntl.matrix.com.br/pfilho/html/lyrics/m/my_dreams_are_getting_better_all_the_time.txt
Essentially the same lyrics are available at several web sites.]
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There is also a verse, called an "introduction" by some, apparently in the sheet music but not in any recording or transcription I have found, that begins: "You know the dream I told you about the other day...."
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Introduced in the film "In Society" (also known as "Abbott & Costello in Society"), 1944, where it was sung by Marion Hutton.
Other recordings:
Les Brown & His Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day) - 1945
Johnny Long & His Orchestra (vocal: Dick Robertson) - 1945
Phil Moore Four (vocal: Billy Daniels) - 1945
George Olsen & His Orchestra (vocal: Judith Blair) - 1945
Louis Prima & His Orchestra (vocal: Louis Prima) - 1945
Perry Como & The Satisfiers - 1945
Vera Lynn - 1945
Tiny Tim - 1969
Also recorded by: Guy Mitchell; Vaughn Monroe; Alan Dale, Clinton Ford, Helen Forrest
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Click to play the Les Brown/Doris Day recording:
http://www.geocities.com/countryloverbob/4475.ra

Click to play the Phil Moore/Billy Daniels recording:
http://www.group-harmony.com/MyDreams.rm

Click to play the Johnny Long/Dick Robertson recording:
http://www.panda123.cn/Panda123/scribble/105-2.ram
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Here's an arrangement with chords copied from The Guitar Guy:
http://www.theguitarguy.com/mydreams.htm

 A      D  D9alt D   D9
  Well, what do  you know, 
  
  A7  D9   D6/9 D  DM7 D7   G          G/B 
  He smiled at  me in  my dreams last night -
  
      A7                G     Gdim      D
  My dreams are getting better all the time.
  
  A      D D9alt D   D9
  And, what  do you know, 
  
  A7  D9   D6/9 D DM7 D7  G        G/B 
  He smiled at me in  a  dif'rent light -
  
      A7                G      A7        D  Gdim  D  D7
  My dreams are getting better all the time.
  
  
  Bridge:
  
     G6                 G/B                     
  To think that we were strangers 
  
     D6               B7
  A couple of nights ago;
  
      E7             D9
  And though it's a dream, 
  
    A7      E7         A    A9 A  Asus4  A7  
  I never dreamed he'd ev - er say hel - lo.
  
  
  A    D  D9alt D     D9    A7  D9   D6/9  D  
  Oh, may - be  to - night I'll hold  him tight 
  
  DM7   D7   G        G/B
  When the moonbeams shine -
  
      A7                G      A7        D
  My dreams are getting better all the time.

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Click to see an image of the sheet music cover:
http://umkcspecialcollections.cdmhost.com/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/p4027coll16&CISOPTR=294