Dreamsville
1959



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Highlights
  • Written for the NBC/ABC television series Peter Gunn that ran from 1958-1961, created by Blake Edwards and directed by Robert Altman.
  • Peter Gunn is the epitome of cool, a suave and sophisticated private eye solving crime to a jazzy beat.



Recording History
The Aaron Bell Orchestra
Lola Albright and Henry Mancini, Dreamsville, Columbia Records, #CL 1327 and #RHCO 46115
The Anita Kerr Quartet, We Dig Mancini, RCA Victor Records, #LSP-3428
Lynn Bush
Lenny Dee
Laura Devon, Dreamsville, single, 1967
Dave Grusin
Bobby Hackett
Henry Mancini his Orchestra and Chorus, Our Man in Hollywood, RCA Victor Records, #LPM/LSP-2604
Quincy Jones
Stacey Kent
Carol Kidd
Andre Kostelanetz
Diana Krall, 1998
Cleo Laine, Blue and Sentimental, RCA Victor Records, #09026-61419
Monica Mancini
Shelly Manne
Sherri Marshall
Pat Martino
Wes Montgomery
Miller Mulgrew
Ted Nash
Oscar Peterson
John Paul "Bucky" Pizzarelli
Ray Anthony and his Orchestra
Ray Ellis and his Orchestra
Sherri Roberts
Tommy Sands
Janis Segal
Doc Severinsen
George Shearing
Pat Suzuki and Hugo Winterhalter and his Orchestra and Chorus, Dreamsville, single, RCA VIctor Records, #47-7551
Tommy Tedesco
John Vance
Sarah Vaughan, Sarah Vaughn Swings the Mancini Songbook, Mercury Records, #SR 61009/MG 21009
Andy Williams, Canadian Sunset, Columbia Records, #CS 9124
Phil Woods
Lyrics
I'm in Dreamsville, holding you;
A dreamy view, just we two
Alone with love in Dreamsville, time is new;
We're here to love and we do.

We can see the rest of the world
Below us from our pink cloud.
There's no boundary to this magic land.

As we go exploring hand in hand
In Dreamy Dreamsville,
Far away, and here we love
Here we'll stay

As we go exploring hand in hand
In Dreamy Dreamsville,
Far away, and here we love
Here we'll stay.
DREAMSVILLE From the television production Peter Gunn, Northridge Music, Inc., 1959. Words by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, Music by Henry Mancini (Special Picture Release)