Monday Music "Dreamtime" by Darryl Hall

     This song was from Darryl Hall, the half of Hall and Oates, the singing duo that has been singing since the 70's.
I heard this song for the first time in 1986 when I was stationed at Fort Devens in Mass going through school.  I thought it was a good song and it did make the MTV playlist that we would watch in the break room before we marched to class.   Later on in 1987 I was listening to American top 40 with Casey Kasim and somebody called in a dedication to his girl that ran off to the big city and disappeared.  For some reason I remembered this while driving down the autobahn near Trier.  Funny what you remember from the past.  And I do miss 1986.

Dreamtime is a single from singer/songwriter Daryl Hall (part of pop-rock duo Hall & Oates). Co-written by John Beeby, it was issued prior to the release of his second solo album, Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine.
It was his biggest hit as a solo performer, climbing the Billboard Hot 100 to peak at number 5 in October 1986 and reached #3 on the Radio & Records CHR/Pop Airplay chart on September 9, 1986 for one week and remained on the chart for twelve weeks. The hit helped drive its parent album up the charts to peak at number 29.

The album's lead single, "Dreamtime", was the most successful song of the album. It reached #5 on the Hot 100 on October 4, 1986, staying there for a week and remaining on the chart for 15 weeks; consequently it was an airplay hit, peaking at #3 on the Radio & Records CHR/Pop Airplay chart. The song went to number 11 on the Mainstream Rock Songs on August 16, 1986 to stay on the chart for 10 weeks. It was also a club hit, the remix version peaked at #36 on the Dance Club Songs chart on October 15, 1986 and remaining on it for five weeks. The single peaked at #24 on the Adult Contemporary chart as well. The song was ranked as the 53th most successful song of 1986 across contemporary hit radio in the United States by Radio & Records.

The original recording is 4:45 in length. The music video extends the track length to 5:12 Aside from some ad-libs near the video version's fade-out, there is little difference between the album version and the video.