"The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" | ||||
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Single by Carly Simon | ||||
from the album Coming Around Again | ||||
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Released | 1987 | |||
Genre | Pop, adult contemporary | |||
Length | 5:00 4:20 (single version) | |||
Label | Arista | |||
Songwriter(s) | Carly Simon Jacob Brackman | |||
Carly Simon singles chronology | ||||
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"The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" is the third single from Carly Simon's 13th studio album Coming Around Again (1987). The song was written by Simon and produced by John Boylan.[1][2] Though no official video was produced for the single, a clip of Simon performing the song at her 1987 HBO concert special, Live from Martha's Vineyard, was released and received moderate airplay on VH1.
The song is one of Simon's biggest Adult contemporary hits, and has been included on multiple compilations of her work, such as the three-disc box set Clouds in My Coffee (1995), the UK import The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better (1998), the two-disc retrospective Anthology (2002), the single-disc Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits (2004), and Sony Music's Playlist: The Very Best of Carly Simon (2014).
The song title is derived from the line of 1941 Warner Bros. film, The Maltese Falcon.