Daydream (Wallace Collection Song)
"Daydream" is a song recorded in 1968 by the Belgian band Wallace Collection. It was composed by band members Sylvain Vanholme and Raymond Vincent, with David MacKay who also produced the single. The song is in the symphonic pop/rock genre, and uses strings and flutes. The song was a hit in mainland Europe, though popularity didn't make it to English speaking countries, despite its use of English lyrics. The song was covered several times, most notably by the Gunter Kallmann Orchestra in 1970.
The song takes its melody from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet. It also uses the second theme from the second movement of Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 1.
"Daydream" found newfound life, starting in the 1990s, as a source of samples in trip hop, electronica and hip hop music. It has even been (mistakenly) credited as having created the Bristol Sound, although the sample that Portishead and Tricky used for "Glory Box" and "Hell Is Round the Corner" respectively is in fact from the similar sounding Isaac Hayes track "Ike's Rap II" from his 1971 album Black Moses.
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