Let Me Be Your Fantasy

"Let Me Be Your Fantasy"
Single by Baby D
from the album Deliverance
Released26 October 1992 (1992-10-26)
Genre
Length
  • 7:49 (album version)
  • 3:52 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)Floyd Dyce
Producer(s)Floyd Dyce
Baby D singles chronology
"Day Dreaming"
(1990) 		"Let Me Be Your Fantasy"
(1992) 		"Destiny"
(1993)
"Casanova"
(1994)
"Let Me Be Your Fantasy"
(1994)
"(Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime) I Need Your Loving"
(1995)
Music video
"Let Me Be Your Fantasy" on YouTube

"Let Me Be Your Fantasy" is a song by British musical group Baby D. It was written and produced by band member Floyd Dyce and the vocals were sung by Dorothy Fearon (also known as Dorothy "Dee" Galdes and Dee Galdes-Fearon).[4][5] It was originally released by Production House Records in October 1992, when it reached No. 76 on the UK Singles Chart. In November 1994, London Records subsidiary Systematic re-released the song, and it subsequently became a UK No. 1 hit for two weeks. A partially black-and-white music video was produced to promote the single.

In 1996, it was included on the group's only album, Deliverance. Same year, it earned an award for Best Dance Tune at the International Dance Music Awards in London.[6] And Mixmag ranked it No. 42 in their ranking of the "100 Greatest Dance Singles of All Time". The rave track is now widely regarded as a classic of its genre. Dyce has said "My idea for Fantasy was to try to develop an original song on top of hard beats: something you could sing along to as you were raving."[7]

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  6. ^ Kwaku (20 April 1996). "Awards shows celebrate thriving state of dance music in U.K.". Billboard. Volume 108. Issue 16.
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