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List Price: $38.98 | | Label: Bmg Int'l
Salesrank: 143989
Released: February 7, 2005 |
| Our Price: $21.78 |
| Used Price: $21.78 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Dreams Are Nothin' More Than Wishes Track Listing:
1. Daydream
2. Sing Me
3. Bali Ha'i
4. Mae
5. Fever
6. Summer Days
7. Puppy Song
8. Daydreamer
9. Some Old Woman
10. Can't Go Home Again
11. Preyin' on My Mind
12. Hold on Me
Editorial Review:
24 Bit Remastered Japan Only First-ever CD Reissue of his 1973 Album.
Dreams Are Nothin' More Than Wishes Reviews:
Heart & Soul 
2009-11-05 - The real David Cassidy is revealed in this reflective selection of songs. It's heart and soul mood music performed with outstanding vocals, as usual. It's everything I look for in a CD...especially when dreams truly are nothing more than wishes...
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2009-09-17 - Have been a huge fan, saw his concert in Bribane a couple of years ago. It bought back alot of memories.I'm so plesaed to see that life may have started out rocky for him but has now come full circle for him to have a good life in the industry that is well deserved.
MY FAVORITE - but the title is "Dreams are nuthin' more than wishes..." (spelling on the original album)
2006-09-20 - This has always been my favorite Cassidy album! I made my own CD from the vinyl album years ago... I can't wait to hear it without that vinyl noise...
This is one of those albums I can listen to over and over again. It definitely shows the most vocal talent of his albums. My favorite song is - I can't pick!!! I LOVE IT ALL!
Light, Airy & Curiously Refreshing
2006-09-10 - A few weeks ago I was watching TV with friends, and a soda ad came on. One of them commented, "What a happy commercial!" Being a renowned smarty-pants I informed her, "Why that's David Cassidy, when he went by the alias the Partridge Family" To which she replied, "But David Cassidy is sooo white, and that guy is not." Since know-it-all people are never wrong, I proved my point by finding a clip on this web site. That inevitably led me to purchase a few albums, including this one. As you can tell by the 5 star rating, I recommend you buy this album. My words will justifiably elicit the response, "Why the hell should I believe you?" I have no defense, other than to say that this album is good enough to make me write a review, and after all, I am a know-it-all. Since there are no clips for you to hear this music you are left to rely on your own instincts in the matter. With a $40 price point you'd have to either be a risk taker or compulsive shopper to simply buy this album without sampling a few tracks. I'll leave it for you to decide which category I fall in.
Either way, I feel like I'm coming out of the musical closet by recommending this album. There is a stigma associated with the music of teen idols and rightfully so, since most can not sing.(What a surprise.) David Cassidy is the exception. This is not so much of a surprise, since soda ads are never wrong. This album is a good place for you to discover the voice behind the former teen idol. I am by no means a musical expert, but I own a few albums that have what I call a "summer breeze" effect. These albums are light, airy and curiously refreshing at the same time.(no mints included) "Dreams are Nuthin' More Than Wishes" is one of those "summer breeze" albums. The music of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole has this same affect on me.
Listening to this album and selected songs on his others Partridge era albums, I notice Cassidy can sing different styles of music and not sound the same. Apparently he can sound un-white, which is code for - he has a soulful voice. The songs in this album are suited to that voice. Sometimes performances can be ruined by bad arrangements, intrusive background singers and lousy sound quality. On one of his other Partridge albums, I found a song that made him sound like he was channeling Cher. However, this album, much like Mary Poppins, is "practically perfect in every way". The only exception is the song "Fever", which I loathe no matter who sings it. My apologizes to fan dancers and strippers everywhere.
With the recently onslaught of performers covering "classic jazz" music, I wish David Cassidy would take on the music of that era. He would do a great job on the songs of Nat King Cole, Sinatra, Tony Bennett or the music of writer Cole Porter. Please keep the arrangements simple, and lose the Vegas style scoobie-doobie effect. Only Sinatra could pull that off. It's always better to sound like an original anyway. How can I state all of the above with such conviction? Smarty-pants people are never wrong - or at least we never admit it.
Cassidy's Masterpiece
2006-07-05 - Having been a David Cassidy fan practically from Day 1, this album in my opinion is his crown jewel. Never was so much heart and soul put into one of his albums as this one. This is the CD, I have been waiting for since the dawn of CD's began. Every track is sheer joy, every lyric touching, and his voice never sounded better. I've always been proud to be his fan, but never more so, than when this album first hit the record stores. David was always conveniently dismissed as a serious singer because of his pop status and association with The Partridge Family, but this album, even today, 33 years after it's initial release, should prove to even the most skeptical, that he was indeed a truly talented singer. Thank God someone had the good sense to finally believe enough in this album to release it on CD. Kudos to you and David!!!!!
