Making Our Dreams Come True

"Making Our Dreams Come True"
Single by Cyndi Grecco
from the album Making Our Dreams Come True
B-side"Watching You"
ReleasedMay 1976
Recorded1976
GenrePop
Length2:29
LabelPrivate Stock Records 45086
Songwriter(s)Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel
Producer(s)Charles Fox
Cyndi Grecco singles chronology
"Making Our Dreams Come True"
(1976) 		"I Think I Can Make It"
(1976)

"Making Our Dreams Come True" is a 1976 hit single written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel.[1][2] It was recorded by Cyndi Grecco, then an unknown musician. The title track of her debut album, it was also used as the theme song to the 1976–83 television sitcom Laverne & Shirley (where it was titled "We're Gonna Make It" in the first-season end credits).

"Making Our Dreams Come True" reached number 25 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 21 on the Cash Box Top 100.[3][4] The song reached number 16 in Canada on the RPM Weekly Top Singles chart.[5] It spent 16 weeks on the U.S. charts, peaking in early July,[6] and also reached number 13 on the Adult Contemporary chart.[7] To date, it is Grecco's lone record to reach any chart.

Chart performance

Cover versions

Johnny Cash covered the song for a commercial for Nissan, highlighting the Japanese automaker's American workforce.[11] As of 2023, the recording has yet to be officially released.

A country version of the song was used in the game Wasteland 3 for the final boss fight of the second DLC, The Cult of the Holy Detonation.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ ""Making our Dreams Come True" by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox". allthelyrics.com. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  2. ^ "Record Details". 45cat.com. Retrieved January 17, 2019. (Fox-Gimbel)
  3. ^ a b Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  4. ^ a b "Cash Box Top 100 7/10/76". Tropicalglen.com. 1976-07-10. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  5. ^ a b "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  6. ^ "Cyndi Grecco Chart History". billboard.com. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  7. ^ "Billboard Adult Contemporary". billboard.com. July 4, 1976. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  8. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 129. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  9. ^ "Top Singles – Volume 26, No. 14 & 15, January 08 1977". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Archived from the original on June 10, 2016. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  10. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
  11. ^ McDonough, John; Egolf, Karen (18 June 2015). The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising. ISBN 9781135949136.



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