January 2023, and words cannot begin to describe how much I love this song, almost 40 years after it was released, I listen to it 4 or 5 times a day, it inspires me, excites me, makes me happy, I sing it at the top of my lungs. It is more valuable than gold, and more transcendent than magic. Thank you Dan Hatman and the Sorels for this little piece of heaven you gave us.
I know it's lip syncing, but Stoney Jackson gives an awesome performance as lead singer of the Sorels, including a killer moonwalk! Kudos to Mykelti Williamson, Robert Townsend and Grand L. Bush for performing that high energy, cool choreography!
I could watch this video over and over and over..............and over again. The camera work, the dance moves, the music, like we would say in the 80's.......Solid Gold.
Don’t care if it was lipSync or not What a performance!!! It’s a Gen-X thing..this was a kick-ass song. Everyone either had the CD or the DVD of this movie… Dan Hartmann you nailed it. The Sorels..loved their dance moves…Stoney Jackson gave a damn good performance..
It's cool how the lead singer, although given the lion's share of the spotlight, does not seem to hog it. The backup singers are equally impressive. I love the enthusiasm the quartet bring to this rather sad song about unfulfilled love.
Sidenote: Back when SNL was auditioning comedians, it was between Robert Townsend and Eddie Murphy as the newest cast member. One exec wanted Townsend , and another wanted Murphy.
I just gotta say that this video was really confusing for me growing up in the 1980s; I didn't realize that Dan Hartman wasn't a black guy until I saw him on Solid Gold...
Love these 80's songs. This came out just before I met my husband Gareth. We were together for 34 yrs until I lost him in 2020 to cancer at 58 yrs old. This takes me back there. Now I can only dream about him. Love you Gar, miss you love. ❤️❤️
I don’t think Dan Hartman actually performed vocals on this version . Doesn’t sound like him. Some other guy originally sang the lyrics for the film. Dan said this violated his contract with MCA stating any vocals performed on his songs would be his ( and rightfully so). He re-recorded the vocals and his was the version heard on the soundtrack. You can tell he put everything into it and totally owns his song! This is the hit that made it to the top of the charts and the one we hear to this day. Yes I’m a diehard Dan Hartman fan!
Yes, he was so gifted. I never knew until I looked him up he was a driving creative force in the Edgar Winter Group on ‘They Only Come Out at Night’, which I remember from high school, and it remains to this day one of only a handful of my all-time favorite albums.
How underrated is Stoney Jackson? This is by far the best lip sync ever. Stoney would have won a lifetime award on Puttin' on the Hits. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puttin%27_on_the_Hits
This is still magic after all these years. What a dreamy song, perfect for the movie too. It’s difficult these days to find the feeling and style this have you back in the 80’s. It was something tangible, not just in your head… to run away with that person you can’t stop thinking about, and the indescribable feeling they give you just knowing you have hooked up before and it’s just starting to blossom. In that decade it was still easier to focus, uninterrupted. You didn’t care about anything else. God that song sounds so good.
These guys have never been sexier! They entertain and make you smile every second! The lead draws you into the dancing and heartbeats so well! The backups make you smile and feel song right down to your toes! Awesome compilation!
Although I prefer Dan Hartman's singing, I love this video -- it evokes childhood memories of the Tempts and the Tops. IMO, there is NO style of entertainment that compares to singing and dancing, and the Sorels do a great job of it.
@@geerterri the song on the movie was sung by Winston Ford, the one on the soundtrack is Dan as is the single. Play this one and the single back to back and you will hear the slight differences.
Dan Hartman, un grande y una voz poderosa, hecha única y exclusivamente, para cantar y lucirse en esta canción inmortal e incombustible. Me emocioné cuando escuché este temazo siendo liceano, en el '84, en Concepción, Chile. Era un joven inocente y con esta melodía, me sentía un galán y el dueño del mundo... Me sigo emocionando hoy - en el 2023 - prácticamente 40 años después. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 Descansa en paz y un abrazo grande para tí, donde sea que estés. Aunque fue imposible conocerte, tu voz y tu melodía estuvieron conmigo, en esa maravillosa época de secundaria y fuiste tan cercano como el mejor amigo.-🥺🥺🥺😔😔😔👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻🤛🏻🤜🏻🤛🏻📺🇨🇱
I just learned Dan Hartman died in 1994 of an Aids related brain tumor. I looked him up because I wondered "Why a guy with so much talent hasn't been heard of lately." This is one of my all time favorite songs 🎵 ❤.
The late Winston Ford Jr., singer/gospel singer, actually sang the lead vocals in the movie. (Some videos showing the Sorels performing have Dan Hartman's version actually playing.) It's a great song! The late Dan Hartman wrote it and allowed it to be used in the movie but negotiated for his own version to be placed on the actual soundtrack and also to only be released commercially (SEE Wikipedia). Winston Ford's voice is only utilized in the movie when the Sorels are onstage. Dan Hartman's version is great as well. He was a musical child prodigy, soulful singer, and very talented writer. But they did not use his voice in the movie to represent the voice of a black singer. When you listen to both versions, although similar sounding in many ways, they are noticeably different.
I rented the movie on RU-vid just so I could hear the Winston Ford version; which I heard Hartman copied the style from. I noticed he also kept all of the backing vocals from the film when he released his version on the soundtrack and videos. Hmmm...
Good morning/evening my Circle of Friends. Here's an Old School Classic by Dan Hartman..'I Can Dream About You' from the movie Streets of Fire...I can dream about you...If I can't hold you tonight..I can dream about you...You know how to hold me just right...Enjoy the weekend
This was a great movie, loved it. Great actors (Diane Lane, Michael Pare, Rick Moranis, William Defoe, Bill Paxton and Robert Townsand), director (Walter Hill) and of the soundtrack.
"I Can Dream About You" is sung within the movie Streets of Fire by a fictional vocal group called The Sorels, whose lead singer is played by Stoney Jackson; the actual vocal was performed by - Winston Ford.
Hartman wrote this for the 1984 movie Streets of Fire, where it was performed by the fictional group The Sorels. The real voice behind the version used in the movie was Winston Ford, but Hartman's version was the one used on the soundtrack and released as a single. >> SongFacts.com
Hartman was a singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer who was a member of the Edgar Winter Group from 1972-1976. He produced tracks for .38 Special, the Average White Band and James Brown. As a solo artist, this was his biggest hit, but he also charted with "Instant Replay," "We Are Young" and "Second Nature." Hartman died of a brain tumor at age 43... :(
@@kathy2trips back in the day when I was visiting my late grandparents for the summer in Columbus Georgia on the same day I saw this movie my los Angeles Lakers lost game 7 of the NBA world championship series to the Boston Celtics
When this song and video came out in the 80’s it was a big hit with my family. Me and my 2 little sister would try to emulate all the dances in this video. Even my mother tried to do the moon walk. We tried and tried but to no avail. But this song will always have good memories for me. I am so glad that I grew up in the 80’s
Dan Hartman managed to block the release of the video and single with the voice of Winston Ford, and forced the production to take two further steps. First, he sang the version of the video taken from the movie footage (which at this point becomes different from the movie), basically dubbing those who had dubbed Winston Ford. Then, for clarity, he shot a second video, that we see in this page, where the movie footage and the first video are broadcasted by the televisions in the room (which was the Hard Rock Cafe in London).
Wow... african americans possess a talent which unfortunately the rest of us can only dream about. The leader of the pack Stoney Jackson oozes confidence and leads his fellow singers with so much style. I feel on top of the world everytime I watch this. Bless them!
One of my all time fav's, man this this guy "OWN" this performance, he SOLD it like it was his own. The first time I saw this video was in the E club at Camp Lejeune, NC back in the 80's, I did not no Dan Hartman was the original artist and these guys were lip sinking, what a surprise, still one of my favorite versions.
Dan Hartman tried to sell the song to Hall and Oates but they didn't want it so Hartman decided to perform it himself. Hall and Oates later admitted they regretted it but gave a performance of it to honor Hartman after he died.
I am reading comments on this board and am surprised by the confusion over this song. Dan Hartman song the popular version of 'I Can Dream About You' that was on the soundtrack and which you might still hear occasionally on the radio. Winston Ford, an African-American singer, sang the version that was used in the 'Streets of Fire' movie. And yes - the Sorel's group in the movie with Stoney Jackson, Robert Townsend and others - they were lip synching to Winston Ford's version.
Grand Bush, Robert Townsend and Mykel T Williamson were the backup singers, all great actors and performers in their own right. What an experience to be among the extras in the concert crowd during the filming of this video even if it took 20 takes.
BTW Streets of Fire is a pretty cool movie.Willem Dafoe as the leader of a biker gang is something to see.This movie might've been just before Dafoe became a star in Platoon.
Diana Lane is the Star of that Movie we all where in Love with her after the Movie came out ! Boys wanted to be cool like Harry and Girls wanted to Look like Ellen Aim ... that Movie had more Imapct then the Breakfast Club to us
Two music videos accompanied the song. One does not feature Hartman and consists of scenes from Streets of Fire, intercut with footage of the Sorels miming the song as part of a live performance. The lead singer was played by Stoney Jackson, with Grand L. Bush, Mykelti Williamson, and Robert Townsend as backing singers.
As a teenager I thought “Streets of Fire” was awesome. Today I remember nothing of the movie but this phenomenal song. It was years before I found out that the song was performed by another artist.
Dang this use to be one of my Favorite Songs growing up and still is. You can always dream about being with a Terrific Man and Good Man. Danced to this Song many of times those fabulous years. Young and just living it up. Always Make your Dreams Come True don’t ever give up!❤️
"In a Songfacts interview with the film's musical director, Kenny Vance, he recalled "The same guy that sings lead on that and "Countdown to Love," a song that I wrote for the film, was a guy working at a Radio Shack (Winston Ford), and I think when you look at the film and The Sorels are singing it live in the movie, that was the version that was supposed to come out, and I recorded that version. But then when Dan Hartman heard it, I don't know what happened next, but I know that he took that guy's voice off and he put his own on, and he had a hit with it. Hollywood is a very slippery place."" You can actually hear the difference between this video and the one featuring Hartman.
They killed this....best lip sync performance in a video ever. Stoney was amazing. I love looking back and realizing that was Robert Townsend, Mykelti and Grand Bush.
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