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"All I Have to Do Is Dream" is a 1958 song by husband-and-wife songwriting team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and made famous by the Everly Brothers.
Vocals — Don Everly and Phil Everly
Acoustic Guitar — Don Everly and Phil Everly (they played their signature acoustic guitars)
Electric Guitar — Chet Atkins (lead/featured electric fills; he's the most prominently credited guitarist)
Additional Guitar — Possibly Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland or Ray Edenton (common in Nashville sessions of the era, though not always specified for this exact track)
Upright Bass — Floyd "Lightnin'" Chance (or sometimes listed as Roy "Junior" Huskey Jr. in variant accounts, but Lightnin' Chance is the standard credit)
Piano — Floyd Cramer (widely credited in secondary sources, including on compilations like The Definitive Everly Brothers and session histories)
Drums — Buddy Harman (light percussion; the track is sparse, but he's noted in many Nashville session recaps for Everly/Cadence work around this time)
The best-known version was recorded by the Everly Brothers at RCA Studios Nashville and released as a single in April 1958. It was recorded by them in only two live takes on March 6, 1958, and features Chet Atkins on guitar. It was the only single ever to be at number one on all of the Billboard singles charts simultaneously.
Outside the United States, "All I Have to Do Is Dream" had massive success in various countries, most notably the United Kingdom, where it topped the UK's New Musical Express chart in June 1958 and remained there for seven weeks (including one week as a joint number one with Vic Damone's "On the Street Where You Live"), spending 21 weeks on the chart in Britain.
"All I Have to Do Is Dream" is a 1958 song by husband-and-wife songwriting team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and made famous by the Everly Brothers.
Vocals — Don Everly and Phil Everly
Acoustic Guitar — Don Everly and Phil Everly (they played their signature acoustic guitars)
Electric Guitar — Chet Atkins (lead/featured electric fills; he's the most prominently credited guitarist)
Additional Guitar — Possibly Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland or Ray Edenton (common in Nashville sessions of the era, though not always specified for this exact track)
Upright Bass — Floyd "Lightnin'" Chance (or sometimes listed as Roy "Junior" Huskey Jr. in variant accounts, but Lightnin' Chance is the standard credit)
Piano — Floyd Cramer (widely credited in secondary sources, including on compilations like The Definitive Everly Brothers and session histories)
Drums — Buddy Harman (light percussion; the track is sparse, but he's noted in many Nashville session recaps for Everly/Cadence work around this time)
The best-known version was recorded by the Everly Brothers at RCA Studios Nashville and released as a single in April 1958. It was recorded by them in only two live takes on March 6, 1958, and features Chet Atkins on guitar. It was the only single ever to be at number one on all of the Billboard singles charts simultaneously.
Outside the United States, "All I Have to Do Is Dream" had massive success in various countries, most notably the United Kingdom, where it topped the UK's New Musical Express chart in June 1958 and remained there for seven weeks (including one week as a joint number one with Vic Damone's "On the Street Where You Live"), spending 21 weeks on the chart in Britain.
