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List Price: $44.99 | | Label: Bmg Int'l
Salesrank: 117731
Released: February 7, 2005 |
| Our Price: $20.44 |
| Used Price: $23.60 |
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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:
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
2006-07-06 - 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!!!!!
just great
2005-10-04 - actually, if i'm being honest, i don't remember this whole album, i was born in '72. but my sister had it, and i used to play it, i guess that would have been approaching the 80's by that time. i never knew the partridge family, and i never knew david cassidy before this, but parts of this album i adored, the tracks i remembered are... preyin' on my mind, the puppy song, daydreamer, some old woman, hold on me & can't go home again, the last of which being a personal favourite. i, like many others, travelled 100's of miles and set up home far away from my place of birth & growth, and that song just mesmerises me in thought, the words ring so true, you just can't go home again, coz it is no longer home. well done DC, 20 odd years on, and these songs still mean so much and are still amongst my most listened to. a classic, a true classic.
HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED THIS ONE
2005-09-24 - I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A BIG FAN OF DAVID CASSIDY. WHAT A BUM RAP THIS GUY GOT FROM PLAYING KEITH PARTIDGE. THIS GUY HAS LOADS OF TALENT AND MOST OF THE WORLD DOESN'T EVEN KNOW IT. I BOUGHT HIS "CHERISH, AND "ROCK ME BABY" ALBUMS WAY BACK WHEN (IN THE EARLY 1970'S). I REALLY THOUGHT THEY WERE GOOD ALBUMS. A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN THE PARTRIDGE TUNES. HOWEVER, AS I GOT A LITTLE OLDER, I RETIRED MY PARTRIDGE FAMILY, AND MY DAVID CASSIDY ALBUMS. SIMPLY BECAUSE MY MUSIC INTEREST WAS CHANGING. AT 16 AND BEING A MALE IT JUST WASN'T COOL TO LIKE DC AND THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY.
AS I GOT OLDER I DECIDED TO GIVE THE MUSIC ANOTHER LISTEN AS THEY WERE RERELEASING PARTRIDGE TUNES ON CD. AND FRANKLY AS YOU GET OLDER YOU REALLY DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF YOUR MUSICAL INTEREST. PLUS I HAD NEVER FORGOTTEN DAVID CASSIDY AND HOW MUCH I REALLY ENJOYED LISTENING TO HIS RECORDINGS, AND BEING A HUGE MUSIC COLLECTOR I HAD TO ADD THEM TO MY COLLECTION. AFTER SOME CAREFUL LISTENING I HAVE TO ADMIT THIS IS DAMN GOOD MUSIC, AND I REALLY MISSED IT! HOW DAVID COULD HAVE HATED THIS MUSIC IS BEYOND ME. ALTHOUGH, I HAVE NOTICED HE HAS RERECORDED A BUNCH OF THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY TUNES ON HIS MOST RECENT CD'S. SO, I GUESS MAYBE HE DIDN'T HATE THE TUNES AS MUCH AS HE THOUGHT HE DID. AND WHY SHOULD HE HAVE? THIS IS SOME OF DAVID'S BEST WORK. I NEVER KNEW THAT THIS ALBUM EVEN EXISTED "DREAMS ARE NOTHIN MORE THAN WISHES" FROM THE 1970'S. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN DAVID'S THIRD SOLO ALBUM. AND I THINK I LOST INTEREST BEFORE IT'S RELEASE. I WAS SCANNING THE INTERNET WHEN I FOUND THIS TITLE AND WAS NOT SURE IF I SHOULD GIVE IT A TRY. HOWEVER, I DECIDED TO CLOSE MY EYES AND CLICK ON THE ORDER BUTTON JUST TO FORCE MYSELF TO GIVE IT A LISTEN. THANK GOD I DID!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS ALBUM. IT IS ONE OF DAVID'S BEST! OLD AND NEW CAN'T COMPARE. HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED THIS ONE. IF YOU ARE A DAVID CASSIDY FAN AND YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD THIS ALBUM/CD DO YOURSELF A FAVOR DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS LITTLE GEM IT IS TRULY ONE OF DAVID'S BEST
