I Can Dream About You (album)

I Can Dream About You
Studio album by
Dan Hartman
ReleasedMay 3, 1984
Recorded1983–1984
GenrePop, pop rock, new wave
Length43:15
LabelMCA
Producer
Dan Hartman chronology
It Hurts to Be in Love
(1981) 		I Can Dream About You
(1984) 		White Boy
(1986)
Singles from I Can Dream About You
  1. "I Can Dream About You"
    Released: April 1984
  2. "We Are the Young"
    Released: September 6, 1984
  3. "Second Nature"
    Released: January 1985

I Can Dream About You is the fifth studio album from American musician/singer/songwriter Dan Hartman, released on May 3, 1984, by MCA.[1] The album was produced by Hartman and Jimmy Iovine.

I Can Dream About You was Hartman's debut album for MCA Records and marked the first album to feature Hartman's longtime songwriting partner Charlie Midnight, with whom he would continue to write throughout the rest of the decade.[2] Hartman and Midnight wrote eight out of the ten tracks together, with the title track being written solely by Hartman, and the album's closing track, "Electricity", being written by Hartman and Nona Hendryx.[3] Hendryx's own version of the song was included on her own 1984 album The Art of Defense.[4] Owing to MCA not releasing the follow-up album White Boy, I Can Dream About You was Hartman's final album in his lifetime to feature vocals and lyrics, as his following album, New Green Clear Blue, would consist entirely of instrumental tracks.

  1. ^ "Dan Hartman – I Can Dream About You at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-01-10.
  2. ^ "Memories of Dan Hartman". Creaser.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2013-10-22. Retrieved 2014-01-10.
  3. ^ "Dan Hartman – I Can Dream About You (CD, Album) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-01-10.
  4. ^ "Nona Hendryx – The Art Of Defense (CD, Album) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-01-10.