Post by greenguy on Dec 20, 2022 15:40:27 GMT -5
Dec 20, 2022 10:12:29 GMT -5 Mark M said:
When I ran across this thread, I felt compelled to chime in.
My Wife was a huge fan of GAH God rest her soul. In the fall of 2018 she was watching a marathon and I happened to hear "Dreams" played at the beginning of the episode of the same name.
I literally ran to the living room and fell instantly in love with it. I searched for the episode and found it, giving me the chance to capture the audio, even though as someone mentioned, it is not
complete. I was determined to learn the song, since it's right in my key and right up my alley. I was getting around to that when I lost my Wife and I say that because now that I have learned it,
it's part of my everyday repertoire and I play it for her with fond memories.
At first I had hoped to find chords or tabs, but as Stephen Geyer mentioned in a YouTube thread, under Denver's live version, "Thanks for posting this version. I wrote "Dreams" well before the show ever existed. Stephen Cannell heard me play it one day and asked if I would offer it up to an episode of G.A.H. he'd written. I agreed, and though it meant ABC, Cannell, and Post then gobbled up my publishing rights, I did get an Emmy nomination. BTW, in my opinion this live version is much better than the studio recorded version on the gold selling album, "Seasons of the Heart". BESTephen"
So, ABC and Cannell apparently had everything locked down to the extent that neither Joey's version, or the chords and tabs, exist.
That being said, I never let things like that stop me and I prevailed in the end.
Sometime in the near future I intend to attempt uploading my cover to the tube, in hopes I don't get a copyright strike.
Dreams is truly a beautiful song and I was inspired by a beautiful lady to learn it.
Mark thank you for sharing such a personal story with everyone on the forum.
If you have success in uploading to YouTube without any copyright strikes against the song please come back and let us know. I’m sure many of us that are fans of the music from the series would like to give it a listen.