"Sad Sweet Dreamer" was a UK number one single for one week in October 1974 for Sweet Sensation.
The second single from the British soul group, a soaring soul ballad heavily influenced by the Stylistics (and led by lead vocalist Marcel King's falsetto), "Sad Sweet Dreamer" became their first hit. Written by David Parton and co-produced by Tony Hatch & Bob Wackett. The song reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 the following spring.
The song was used in the 2009 UK TV series Red Riding.
Famous quotes containing the words sad, sweet and/or dreamer:
“Some [adolescent] girls are depressed because they have lost their warm, open relationship with their parents. They have loved and been loved by people whom they now must betray to fit into peer culture. Furthermore, they are discouraged by peers from expressing sadness at the loss of family relationships—even to say they are sad is to admit weakness and dependency.”
—Mary Pipher (20th century)
“There be none of beauty’s daughters
With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)