Comments on: DREAMWEAVERS - “It’s Almost Tomorrow”

By: mike

mike — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:17:26 +0000

Well, well - it turns out that the late Jo Stafford took this to #14 on the Billboard chart in November 1955. Having listened to both, I prefer the tenderly lilting understatement of this, the original version.

(Some interesting comments re. its origins on YouTube, by the way.)

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:58:42 +0000

And checking the lyrics on a dubious website, I think there’s no doubt it’s an all-nite last date. The emotional fatigue of the weakling singer becomes doubly poignant, the poor proto-indie sap.

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:49:28 +0000

That grub-rock cause celebre, Baby Jump, is the whole reason I discovered this blog. I was googling one day, wondering whether I was on my own in having no recollection of a 1971 chart topper… and of course I wasn’t! I may have talked about this at length before…

But I do love the idea of someone discovering Popular because they were curious about the Dreamweavers.

By: Mark G

Mark G — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:26:39 +0000

Never heard this!

OK, you lot with yr “Never heard Baby Jump”, this is mine.

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:09:08 +0000

Great piece on a properly obscure no.1. While having a memory of hearing it on Jimmy Savile’s Old Record Club in 1978, I knew the song better from Mark Wynter’s 1963 version which entirely lacks the pathos of this wimpy rendition - proto-indie in more than one way.

I may have missed a crucial line but it sounds to me as if the couple are together as the sun is due to rise, and the girl is unaware that the singer has sussed out her infidelity. Which would make it a very adventurous lyric for 1955, and plenty more sad.

The lyrics were written by one Wade Buff, which sounds quite rude as well.

By: Keith W

Keith W — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:29:14 +0000

Is it me, or does Puff the Magic Dragon borrow heavily from this melody?

By: tim davidge

tim davidge — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:01:31 +0000

Though it sounds and feels British, this song, for all its old-school diction, is American. And while it’s true that it has “indy” origins and was given regional airplay as originally recorded, it soon excited the interest of a big-company record exec, and was duly redone before going on to greater things. In this way, of course, it avoided the poor recording quality that afflicted one of the other great records of the time, namely the Penguins’ “Earth Angel” (not featured here), which became world famous complete with poor balance, bad level and even some distortion! Whatever the circumstances surrounding its origins, “It’s Almost Tomorrow” is a lovely record-at least an eight from me. Finally, I think that the strange dissonance at the end is effective and poignant, signifying that something sweet and wonderful has come to an end.