Imagine for a minute you are a 7 year old kid around 1976. You like to listen to the radio at night in bed before you go to sleep. It's a cold snowy night outside, but you are warm in your bed. Then this song comes on the radio. Are you not in bliss at that point? This is what I actually experienced back in the day, it was awesome.
10 in 1976 and I thought I was the only one that did this back then!, oh well a 10 year old was entitled to his allusions I guess. And then on Friday nights you get to watch the midnight Special, which is where I think this is actually from. Cheers, and good post that is spot on for those who grew up back then.
As a few other people here have said, his other hit, from 1976 like this one, is also really worth a listen: "Love is Alive." We used to do a dance called the Robot to it. This song also makes me want to hear another popular 1976 song, the Steve Miller Band's "Fly Like an Eagle."
A quote from Gary Wright. "In 1972, my friend George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India. A few days before we left, he gave me a copy of the book Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. Needless to say the book inspired me deeply, and I became totally fascinated with Indian culture and philosophy. My trip was an experience I will never forget. During the early '70s while reading more of the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda, I came across a poem called God! God! God!. One of the lines in the poem referred to the idea of the mind weaving dreams and the thought immediately occurred to me, weaver of dreams... Dream Weaver. I wrote it down in my journal of song titles and forgot about it. Several months passed, and one weekend, while in the English countryside, I picked up my journal and came across the title 'Dream Weaver.' Feeling inspired, I picked up my acoustic guitar and began writing. The song was finished in an hour. The lyrics and music seemed to have flowed out of me as if written by an unseen source. After the record was released and became successful many people asked me what the song meant. I really wasn't sure myself and would answer 'it was about a kind of fantasy experience... a Dream Weaver train taking you through the cosmos.' But I was never satisfied with that explanation, and as years went by I began to reflect on what the song actually meant and then it came to me: 'Dream Weaver, I believe you can get me through the night...' was a song about someone with infinite compassion and love carrying us through the night of our trials and suffering. None other than God Himself."
bill johnson That is amazing! I read Autobiography of a Yogi back in the 70s, and passed it on to a number of people. Always got my copy back and still have it today. I also have a soft cover copy of" Bhagavad - gita As It IS " from 1972, an official publication of ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. As you can tell I was very much into Eastern philosophy and Hindu mysticism at the time.
His other big hit was "My Love is Alive". Totally different sound, but a huge hit nonetheless. Always enjoy when it comes on the classic rock station - more 70s pop, though.
When Amber closes her eyes, I swear it makes my day because I can almost feel what she does at that exact moment. She just leaves the earth for awhile. What a cool family.
DREAM WEAVER, powerful man. Remember this song do well. One of the best songs, by GARY WRIGHT. Got to love it. Today's music, sorry no comparison to the classics.
Even more sobering is how normal this level of music-making was to us (and still is, to some of us). I have no idea how popular music got so emotionally and mentally limited. Very little of it now seems to do any more than chase empty “hooks” and “beats”, for a buck and four numbing minutes. We’re left with obsessively picking lyrics apart, as though words were all we have. It’s a sad situation, and somebody needs to blow it up soon. Real musicians and deeper listeners have got to rebel. 💥
Whoa. This song takes me back. My sister owned this album, and I heard this song easily 100 times the year it came out. Gary is considered a one-hit wonder, but that's not technically true. He had two other hits, "Love Is Alive" and "Really Wanna Know You". Check those out. "Dream Weaver" was used in dozens of movies, including "Spaceballs", "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", "Wayne's World", "Airheads", "The Full Monty", and "Daddy Day Care". It was even in "Toy Story 3". Prolific!
I don't remember 'I really wanna know you' but '(My) Love is Alive' I remember being pretty big. That bass beat though! Heard that bass imitated more than smoke on the water back then, lol.
@@bqkmg2037 You've just corrected the memory of when I was a pre teen!! And we both stand corrected...The song was actually released in 1975!! Not that either of us is being pedantic...oh nooooo.
@@elmoomle4565 Wikipedia saids the album Garry Wright released in 1975 ...but i remember hearing it on the airwaves from the radio in early 1976 and his next song "Love is alive" followed like in spring of 1976 ??? I too was a pre teen in the middle 70s...class of '79 (jr. High) high school 1983 graduate.
i did that with my kids. too much music to share! i shared as much as i could. my son likes 70s classics and some pop. my daughter likes 80s arena rock and elton john. they got some of the mountain of music in me :)
Love this song. When I was hospitalized and in a coma my brother played this everyday, family was told when they removed life support I wouldn't be here long. But 7 years later here I am 🤗
I can't imagine your brother picking a more perfect song to play for you when you were "dreaming". You got through the night, reached the morning light..
I loved this ethereal vibe Gary Wright gave us. He began his career as a child actor appearing on Broadway in Fanny as the son of Florence Henderson (Brady Bunch) in 1954! He’s also well known for collaborating with Beatles’ George Harrison and Ringo Starr. My favorite song of his was released in 1981: I Really Want To Know You. Hope you’ll check it out. It has so many amazing transitions!
This one is a special one. A classic. If you've watched Wayne's World, you've heard part of this. Edit: If you want to hear more Gary Wright, make sure it's "Love is Alive." Different from this one. The bass beat will get you.
A very popular song in the 70's, very talented Artist. I was dating a girl at the time this came out, she worshiped this song. It got her through the hard nights with her alcoholic mother. :(
Gary Wright is an American singer, songwriter, musician & composer best known for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" & "Love Is Alive". He was also responsible in helping establish the synthesizer as a leading instrument in rock & pop music.
what ROCK have you been living under. YES and EOL had more SYNTHESIER in they music. they were BOTH LONG BEFORE Gary Wright and even fore that in 68' Hot Butter had Pop Corn. Synthesizer had been around long before Gary Wright. You have been living in hole with a rock covering your whole.
This song was on my wedding play list, along with Gerry Rafferty's 'Right Down The Line'. Consider doing Rafferty next, his guitar solos are amazing alongside an unforgettable saxophone harmony.
This song and Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle" were two of my favorites through out the late 70s and into 80s. I'd put my head phones on and drift away on those songs. Oh.... that's another great song... "Drift Away" by Dobie Gray. I'm glad you got a version of the song that didn't cut the ending. Many of the renditions chop the ending.
In 1991, I was a high school music teacher in a very small mountain town in upstate New York. The guidance counselor came on the PA, told us first to hold all classes. He came back on a few minutes later, and shared the sad news that the senior class president was murdered that morning by his girlfriend before coming to school. This just never happened in any place anywhere near that part of the country! Needless to say, all the students in this small school were shocked. A lot of tears, feelings of shock and emptiness. There was nothing anyone could do at the time, so I put on some music. This song came up. When it was over, one girl asked if I could play it again. For the next four hours or so, we sat around a small area in the classroom and played this song over and over and over again. This will be the memory that goes with me when I hear this song…not necessarily of the pain, but of helping kids understand that “today’s pain“ will eventually go away and become only a sad memory.
Fun fact: This was the first all keyboard Rock album, and they were the first all keyboard live touring band. There's only voice, drum, and synthesizer on Dreamweaver
This is my mom's song. I was her Dream Weave child. She passed away 13 years ago in March. Every time I hear this song, I know she's thinking about me.
I'm not gonna lie. You two are probably the best at breaking down the music, the vocals and the feeling in songs. Maybe only Jamel breaks it down from the view point of a new listener like you guys sometimes. It brings us joy when you guys discover something you really like a lot.
Until I came across the Rob Squad Andy & Alex were my favorite reactors until they started to play what, IMO, is crappy music. Unlike Jay and Amber they don’t really listen to what the community wants them to. Who the hell is Danzig?!
I think dream weaver is one of those songs that you just can’t get enough of and I get goosebumps whenever the song comes on such a beautiful song released in 1975
In 1976 I was 15 and fell in love with this song first time I heard it! His voice was so mesmerizing and the song is beautiful. I still listen to all his music but this will always be my favorite. I loved your reactions thank you for doing this one.
You have to check out Dan Hill - "Sometimes When We Touch" Female Friday: Samantha Sang - "Emotions" Maxine Nightingale - "Right Back Where We Started"
I lived at Seattle International Raceway. (Now Pacific.) This guy raced a 70 Nova called the Dream Weaver Train. It had the most beautiful paint job and was BRUTALLY quick. Miss those day's. Thanks R.S.R. God Bless.
This song profoundly affected my life during a very very dark time in my late teens. Basically kept me going. What’s so amazing I wrote to him years ago to tell him this, and he actually wrote me a very lovely letter back saying he appreciated hearing my story. ❤
With the invention of the internet it became possible to directly communicate with our idols/heroes. Gary Wright was one of those artists that I tried to emulate in my life and music. I met him at least three times at concerts and he was always so kind. He also answered my emails to him back in the early days of his website. His passing on 9/4/23 was a very sad day for me. He has a lot of good music, both as a solo artist and with the band Spooky Tooth from the 70s.
My best friend in junior high had this album. Always loved this song and My Love is Alive. Such good memories come floating back from 40 plus years ago.
Great song I got to hear as a kid growing up in the 70s. Another song from that era I know both of you will enjoy is "YEAR OF THE CAT" by AL STEWART. This is one of those songs you have to listen to at least once in your life. But then it's like only eating one potato chip, you will listen to it many more times. The song is roughly based on the 1942 movie Casablanca so far as it takes place in a tourist market place somewhere in Northern Africa. The song was released in 1976 but the riff was something that Al heard played by a keyboardist named Peter Wood practicing for a show at Royal Albert Hall in 1975. AL asked if he could use it to write a song and Peter said yes. By the way 1975 was the year of the cat on the Vietnamese zodiac calendar.
Year of the Cat is an awesome song. It was produced by Alan Parsons, the engineer on the Beatles' albums Abbey Road & Let It Be and most famously was the engineer on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
Gary Wright passed away yesterday on Labor Day (9-4-2023) Dream Weaver was his most popular song. Parts of it appear in Wayne's World. Next to Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Gary was one of the most talented and innovative keyboard players and earliest pioneers of introducing the synthesizer as a common instrument. I suggest you plug into Gary Wright's previous band before he embarked on his solo career. It was called Spooky Tooth. If you enjoy Dream Weaver, then you will be blown away by a song called "Fantasy Satisfier', which features Gary Wright on vocals and keyboards. The album is called The Mirror, and featured one of the best album covers ever with a cutaway front that showed part of the inside artwork.
I'm so glad you guys finally got to do this song , so many memories back in the 70's driving back roads and this song would always come on the radio late at night ,
Not only are you two simply beautiful people, but your love of music and your enthusiasm when first discovering something new to you gives me such joy! I know I could sit down with you both and talk music for hours! Your warmth and intelligence continually shine through. Thank you, thank you.
Enjoyed this song. One i have heard many times but never really listened to. Song suggestion that i think you will LOVE is Dont Answer Me, The Alan Parsons Project and Eye in the Sky by the same group.
If the listen to Alan Parsons tgey have to listen to The Raven or The Cask of Amontillado from their Takes of Mystery and Imagination album, which is all songs based upon Edgar Allen Poe stories.
Eye in the sky preceded by Sirius is EPIC!!! very trippy in a way!! Also check out Asia’s Only Time Will Tell!!! The beginning part is just epic too! It might startle you if you’re not ready for it! It comes up fast! LOL
One of my favorite songs EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Same with my dad. Can you believe this song was from 1976? It was WAY ahead of its time. Both of his big hits that year peaked at #2. The other one is "Love Is Alive." It's also way up there on the coolness scale!!!
Another big hit that played on the radio was"SEASONS IN THE SON" by(TERRY JACKS).My friends and I would request this song on the radio,had to run out and buy it.
That song has a very interesting history, as it was originally a 1961 song "Le Moribond" by Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel. Terry Jacks to a translated version of the lyrics and changed them around to get the version of the song we know and love. Interestingly, fellow Canadian David Foster played piano and double base on "Seasons in the Sun", and he also played piano, organ and synthesiser on Gary Wright's "Dreamweaver"!
oh wow... now THERE is a song from the 'Almost Forgotten' dusty bin of '70s hits! I remember that one from when I was riding bikes around our little town every day on summer vacation with my friends! love that song!
SEASONS IN THE SUN was a #1 hit song in early 1974, first in Canada then in the US & the world. It was Terry Jacks' one hit wonder though he had put out a few other singles right after 'Seasons'! His ex wife Susan Jacks sang the background vocals on the tune
Gary Wright is an American Rock singer/synthesizer player. He has had a very long music career, going back to 1960 (before that, he was a child actor). In the late-1960s and early-1970s, Wright was in a band named Spooky Tooth. In the 1970s, he did a lot of session musician work for George Harrison's solo albums. After the breakup of Spooky Tooth, Gary Wright focused on his solo music career. Wright became the first Rock music artist to have synthesizers as the primary sound on his albums. His greatest musical success took place between 1976 and 1982. Gary Wright, according to Wikipedia, spent most of the 1980s at home with his family. He returned to active recording and touring in the late-1980s. Gary Wright is 78 years old. Two other hit songs/music videos by Gary Wright are "Love Is Alive" and "Really Wanna Know You".
i wanna say that this song is one of all time faves. when i walked down corrider in a mall & hear that opening few notes, i would stop & just stand there & listen to the song. LOVE IT! glad you guys like it too
Man I love watching you guys feel the music and react to it! Also love you guys as a team! The couple that jams together stays together! 🙌🏼😎 Thanks for the awesome videos.
@@brucemerryman7365 , saw Frampton and Yes 30+ years later in Baltimore with the same person I'd seen the original concert with (whom I hadn't seen in almost as long). Ah, life!😎😎😎😎
Way back in the day when we were lucky to be able to record songs onto cassette off the radio, this was one of my favorites. I got most of it recorded (the DJ was talking during part of the intro) and then filled the cassette with other songs that were great but didn't neatly fall into a particular category. Don't forget to check out the band "Mr. Mister", the song "Kyrie" (not like the basketball player), this is the transliteration of the Greek "kyrie eleēson" into Latin Kyrie eleison ( KEE-ree-yay ee-LAY-ee-sohn, meaning “Lord, have mercy”), the word is used as a preliminary petition before a formal prayer and as a congregational response in the liturgies of many Christian churches.
When I 1st heard this song, I was probably 3 years old, standing in the backseat of my Mom's big, green Oldsmobile. It was the 70's, we lived on the edge. Lol. I remember thinking this song felt magical. Of course I had no idea what he was talking about. I've always loved this song. Great reaction video (as usual) y'all.
Gary Weaver creates a very eclectic, cosmic, dreamworld atmosphere which uniquely sets the mood for the lyrics! It was a prelude to "New Age" music which started emerging in the 1980s. A gold hit for Gary....#2 on the Hot-100 and more than 1,000,000 copies sold! Dream Weaver brings back so many great memories of the carefree 1970s. Thank you for your wonderful reactions! 😊♥👏🏾🎤🎶🎸🥁🎹💯🛼🪩
Halfway through the seventies, this song hit the hit lists and it was pure synthesizer and keyboard, apart from the drums. A revolution, which I guess led to the synth pop in the eighties eventually. At the time, synthesizers were new, used mostly by prog bands like ELP, Genesis and Yes, and Kraftwerk (Autobahn) or strange hit songs (Popcorn).
Now, from the same era, but a smooth groove: Boz Scaggs "Low Down" from his 1976 Silk Degrees Lp. Backup musicians include the nucleus of what became the band Toto. Dig that drum groove by Jeff Porcaro
I had the eight track when it came out and would put the headphones on and go to another world. One of the most amazing songs I ever heard. It came out at the same time frame as Fleetwood Mac Rhiannon, Frampton Comes Alive, Steve Miller Fly like an Eagle, Queen Bohemian Rhapsody, Heart Magic Man, & Aerosmith Toys in the Attic. 1975-76 was probably the most transformative period in music history.
Yes, I love how you both completely tuned in to the consciousness-raising theme of the song. :) Gary Wright is a longtime meditator. "According to Gary Wright, the song was inspired by Autobiography of a Yogi, which was given to him by George Harrison. Paramahansa Yogananda's poem "God! God! God!" made reference to "the idea of the mind weaving dreams".
The unique-ness of this, and his other hit from the same album, was that these two songs were fully recorded on a keyboard synthesizer, which, at the time, was very rare, and, as far as I am aware, had never been done before with a top hit. No other artist or instrument was used. Later, Moby, and others, would do this. But Wright's was quite possibly the very first.
😲❤One of my ALL time favourites!!! ...These levitating synth-strings!!!.......these lyrics to it..... Remembers me of the legendary Solina String-ensemble.. A product, which was taken from the string-section of thé, also legendary, Eminent 310 Unique; the Oxygene-Jarre machine. Dútch, of course😊 Fántástic, never surpassed kind of performance!❤
Boy!! Haven't heard this in years...brought "shivers" to me. I guess because of how lucky I've grown up in the 1970s...with soooo much diverse music that was ORIGINAL!!! Rock, R & B, Disco, Country, etc. man the 70s were the BEST!!
When I was a young man in the early to mid 80's there was this long, lovely dancer in a little club downtown (thank you Bob Segar) who danced to this song. Boy, was she a dream weaver....😍
For 1972, the sound of this song was way ahead of it's time with the clean and clear use of synthesizers and to this day it still stands out on its own and never sounds outdated.
It's so cool that you guys are digging all the 1970s hits. Music on demand was non-existent back then. It was on the radio, or you had some money to buy a 45 or an LP album.
When the NFL awarded Jacksonville a team, the first owner of the Jaguars was Wayne Weaver. They played the chorus of this song everywhere he got introduced in Jacksonville since he made our dream come true.
Imagine for a minute you are a 7 year old kid around 1976. You like to listen to the radio at night in bed before you go to sleep. It's a cold snowy night outside, but you are warm in your bed. Then this song comes on the radio. Are you not in bliss at that point? This is what I actually experienced back in the day, it was awesome.
I don't have to imagine this...I actually remember it happening, too!
Ahhh, you too me back; except I was 6 and listened to this in my Mom's car on an 8 track with the windows down and the wind in my hair.
@@TheSwissChalet Me, too!
10 in 1976 and I thought I was the only one that did this back then!, oh well a 10 year old was entitled to his allusions I guess. And then on Friday nights you get to watch the midnight Special, which is where I think this is actually from. Cheers, and good post that is spot on for those who grew up back then.
@@palermotrapani9067 😊
I was 11 years old, when these hit in 1976. I've been a fan ever since Weaver and Love is Alive.
Rest in Peace, Gary.
Oh my God! I love the song my love is alive
I was 6 years old when this song dropped!❤
As a few other people here have said, his other hit, from 1976 like this one, is also really worth a listen: "Love is Alive." We used to do a dance called the Robot to it. This song also makes me want to hear another popular 1976 song, the Steve Miller Band's "Fly Like an Eagle."
yes.....Love is Alive is a great song!
Fart like a beagle? was how I would sing it just to get under everyone's skin
I wanna fly like an eagle to the sea,fly like an eagle let my spirit carry me....great song.
Oh I loved that song!!!!
Thanks for pointing out that Dream Weaver is from 1976, not 1972 (as the video listed in error).
A quote from Gary Wright.
"In 1972, my friend George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India. A few days before we left, he gave me a copy of the book Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. Needless to say the book inspired me deeply, and I became totally fascinated with Indian culture and philosophy. My trip was an experience I will never forget. During the early '70s while reading more of the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda, I came across a poem called God! God! God!. One of the lines in the poem referred to the idea of the mind weaving dreams and the thought immediately occurred to me, weaver of dreams... Dream Weaver. I wrote it down in my journal of song titles and forgot about it. Several months passed, and one weekend, while in the English countryside, I picked up my journal and came across the title 'Dream Weaver.' Feeling inspired, I picked up my acoustic guitar and began writing. The song was finished in an hour. The lyrics and music seemed to have flowed out of me as if written by an unseen source. After the record was released and became successful many people asked me what the song meant. I really wasn't sure myself and would answer 'it was about a kind of fantasy experience... a Dream Weaver train taking you through the cosmos.' But I was never satisfied with that explanation, and as years went by I began to reflect on what the song actually meant and then it came to me: 'Dream Weaver, I believe you can get me through the night...' was a song about someone with infinite compassion and love carrying us through the night of our trials and suffering. None other than God Himself."
Interesting that an all keyboard/synthesizer song was composed on guitar.
👌🏻 God is love
bill johnson That is amazing! I read Autobiography of a Yogi back in the 70s, and passed it on to a number of people. Always got my copy back and still have it today. I also have a soft cover copy of" Bhagavad - gita As It IS " from 1972, an official publication of ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. As you can tell I was very much into Eastern philosophy and Hindu mysticism at the time.
Wow back in the 70s our local paper always carried Paramahansa Yogananda ad for his program (or something like it). Ran for years.
There. THAT’s a reaction. 👍🏻
His other big hit was "My Love is Alive". Totally different sound, but a huge hit nonetheless. Always enjoy when it comes on the classic rock station - more 70s pop, though.
Yes! Both great songs and don't forget Really Wanna Know You.
Yep, "Love Is Alive" is a bit more soulful, with a riff that sticks in your head forever! LOL! Both songs are amazing.
He also had hits with Spooky Tooth before his solo career. Evil Woman comes to mind.
My love is alive is an absolute must...
Joan Osbourne does a great version of My Love Is Alive.
When Amber closes her eyes, I swear it makes my day because I can almost feel what she does at that exact moment. She just leaves the earth for awhile. What a cool family.
DREAM WEAVER, powerful man. Remember this song do well. One of the best songs, by GARY WRIGHT. Got to love it. Today's music, sorry no comparison to the classics.
Yes!!!!!!!!
Only music can do that.
These are the people you went as your neighbors.
-#cheers-- !-
“Love is Alive” by Gary Wright will totally get you guys!! You will love it! Check it out! 😀
I agree! Both of you will love the song, and many of us in the RSR family will enjoy the reaction!
You both remind me every single day just how good our music was back then, you just don't hear unique music like this today
Even more sobering is how normal this level of music-making was to us (and still is, to some of us).
I have no idea how popular music got so emotionally and mentally limited. Very little of it now seems to do any more than chase empty “hooks” and “beats”, for a buck and four numbing minutes. We’re left with obsessively picking lyrics apart, as though words were all we have.
It’s a sad situation, and somebody needs to blow it up soon. Real musicians and deeper listeners have got to rebel. 💥
Yes, indeed.
Well said. @@ikshields
Havent in Many decades period ..... this waz 70s Gold 4 sure
Whoa. This song takes me back. My sister owned this album, and I heard this song easily 100 times the year it came out. Gary is considered a one-hit wonder, but that's not technically true. He had two other hits, "Love Is Alive" and "Really Wanna Know You". Check those out. "Dream Weaver" was used in dozens of movies, including "Spaceballs", "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", "Wayne's World", "Airheads", "The Full Monty", and "Daddy Day Care". It was even in "Toy Story 3". Prolific!
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Love is Alive- yes!
Love is alive is another great song by!
I believe this was the B side of the Love is Alive 45. Made it on the radio and the rest as they say was history.
I don't remember 'I really wanna know you' but '(My) Love is Alive' I remember being pretty big. That bass beat though! Heard that bass imitated more than smoke on the water back then, lol.
RIP Gary Wright! So many teenage nights listening to this on the radio and drifting off to sleep - Dream On!
This song was so 'far ahead' of most music that was playing on the radio in 1972...still holds up remarkably well!! Great, iconic tune.
This song was from 1976 bicentennial year not 1972...i was there in 1970s.
@@bqkmg2037 You've just corrected the memory of when I was a pre teen!!
And we both stand corrected...The song was actually released in 1975!!
Not that either of us is being pedantic...oh nooooo.
July of '75 to be exact.
@@elmoomle4565 Wikipedia saids the album Garry Wright released in 1975 ...but i remember hearing it on the airwaves from the radio in early 1976 and his next song "Love is alive" followed like in spring of 1976 ??? I too was a pre teen in the middle 70s...class of '79 (jr. High) high school 1983 graduate.
Ahead by three years to be exact. The song came out in December of 1975.
RIP Gary Wright (1943-2023). We will miss you. Godspeed!
He had some great music😢😢❤❤
I had no idea he died.
I believe he is in a better place
I recommend you check out Walter Egan’s song “Magnet and Steel” to continue that 70’s mellow vibe. A very young Stevie Nicks sings background.
Hell Yeah!
Awesome song!!!
That's a good one.
Love that song!
I love that song- it’s an absolute must!
My mom would put this 45 on stereo. As kids we'd sing and dance to this with her. Thanks mom!!
i did that with my kids. too much music to share! i shared as much as i could. my son likes 70s classics and some pop. my daughter likes 80s arena rock and elton john. they got some of the mountain of music in me :)
Love this song.
When I was hospitalized and in a coma my brother played this everyday, family was told when they removed life support I wouldn't be here long. But 7 years later here I am 🤗
LOL bullshit
And we are thankful that you are. Thank you for sharing that.❤
I can't imagine your brother picking a more perfect song to play for you when you were "dreaming". You got through the night, reached the morning light..
The power of brotherly love and music. Glad you made it.
Yes indeed glad you are still here.
I loved this ethereal vibe Gary Wright gave us. He began his career as a child actor appearing on Broadway in Fanny as the son of Florence Henderson (Brady Bunch) in 1954! He’s also well known for collaborating with Beatles’ George Harrison and Ringo Starr. My favorite song of his was released in 1981: I Really Want To Know You. Hope you’ll check it out. It has so many amazing transitions!
This one is a special one. A classic. If you've watched Wayne's World, you've heard part of this.
Edit: If you want to hear more Gary Wright, make sure it's "Love is Alive." Different from this one. The bass beat will get you.
😂oh that Movie!!…I liked this song (and all the others) way before it came out but it’s THE FIRST thing I thought of when I saw this drop✌️✨
I was thinking Wayne's world too.i must have been on other stuff too?!
Also was in the movie "The People vs Larry Flynt".
Wayne's World made such good use of this song.
@@centuryrox I'm not sure if I've seen that one? Maybe years ago or just bits? I am familiar with it
I sooo miss the 70's..what a wonderful time it was🙂
was very good times a tinny exsample what Heaven is like, in some ways
A very popular song in the 70's, very talented Artist. I was dating a girl at the time this came out, she worshiped this song. It got her through the hard nights with her alcoholic mother. :(
Gary Wright is an American singer, songwriter, musician & composer best known for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" & "Love Is Alive". He was also responsible in helping establish the synthesizer as a leading instrument in rock & pop music.
what ROCK have you been living under. YES and EOL had more SYNTHESIER in they music. they were BOTH LONG BEFORE Gary Wright and even fore that in 68' Hot Butter had Pop Corn. Synthesizer had been around long before Gary Wright. You have been living in hole with a rock covering your whole.
@@ffieditor and then we had the Moody Blues even before ELO and Yes...
Gary Wright was in a group called Spooky Tooth that came out in 1967.
This song was on my wedding play list, along with Gerry Rafferty's 'Right Down The Line'. Consider doing Rafferty next, his guitar solos are amazing alongside an unforgettable saxophone harmony.
Most excellent choices, both. I sent them a message some time ago suggesting "Baker Street". Legendary sax.
Love Right Down The Line!
Seconding 'Right Down The Line' . Incredible masterpiece.
@@DizJakeOG Same here! I love it as much as Baker Street. Jerry Rafferty was a talented guy - succumbed to alcoholism unfortunately.
@@cainealexander-mccord2805 they have already done Baker Street. Have a look for it :)
Great song, Remember when it was released.
An amazingly relaxing and beautiful song, Amber will love it
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This song and Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle" were two of my favorites through out the late 70s and into 80s. I'd put my head phones on and drift away on those songs. Oh.... that's another great song... "Drift Away" by Dobie Gray. I'm glad you got a version of the song that didn't cut the ending. Many of the renditions chop the ending.
1975 - I was 11. Heard this song everywhere. The memories. Please check out "Rock On" - David Essex.
We are the same age. Definitely a part of the soundtrack of our lives
Glad you found it this is an absolute classic that anyone who grew up in the 70's knows all the words to.
Saw him in concert opening for Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive Tour in the 70’s. Excellent and Frampton was beyond.🔥❤️
Me too! At JFK Stadium in Philly. Pousette Dart Band, Gary Wright, Frampton and Yes summer 76.
In 1991, I was a high school music teacher in a very small mountain town in upstate New York. The guidance counselor came on the PA, told us first to hold all classes. He came back on a few minutes later, and shared the sad news that the senior class president was murdered that morning by his girlfriend before coming to school. This just never happened in any place anywhere near that part of the country! Needless to say, all the students in this small school were shocked. A lot of tears, feelings of shock and emptiness. There was nothing anyone could do at the time, so I put on some music. This song came up. When it was over, one girl asked if I could play it again. For the next four hours or so, we sat around a small area in the classroom and played this song over and over and over again. This will be the memory that goes with me when I hear this song…not necessarily of the pain, but of helping kids understand that “today’s pain“ will eventually go away and become only a sad memory.
I was 7 years old when this song was a new release. I've loved it nearly my entire life and still have a single of it in my collection on '45 vinyl.
Gary Wright "I Really Want To Know You" & "Love Is Alive"..Both Must Hear Classics.
Fun fact: This was the first all keyboard Rock album, and they were the first all keyboard live touring band. There's only voice, drum, and synthesizer on Dreamweaver
There's more than one keyboard on this, Gary Wright did play all the parts though.
TJ Hunger That's different, but nice effects nevertheless. Btw TJ I was teaching at a school named Governor Thomas Johnson in 1975...TJ for short :)
Ronnie Montrose did play guitar on "Power of Love" on the album otherwise all keyboards
@@ffjsb Not so - David Foster played keyboards on this album too.
RIP Gary Wright- this is a sensational song, well done you two.....
one of my first albums as a teen, you guys are so fun and so appreciative of others talent. !!! thank you
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Me too. I was 12 years old-- this was either the second or third album I ever bought.
This is my mom's song. I was her Dream Weave child. She passed away 13 years ago in March. Every time I hear this song, I know she's thinking about me.
Amber, I just love it when you get the dreamy look on your face when you're being swept away by the music!
I'm not gonna lie. You two are probably the best at breaking down the music, the vocals and the feeling in songs. Maybe only Jamel breaks it down from the view point of a new listener like you guys sometimes. It brings us joy when you guys discover something you really like a lot.
Give Jauvaughn from JayVeeTV a shot.
@@italoblu Yeah, I watch him sometimes. He's cool, but these two really take the music apart. I love it.
Love Jamel!!
Until I came across the Rob Squad Andy & Alex were my favorite reactors until they started to play what, IMO, is crappy music. Unlike Jay and Amber they don’t really listen to what the community wants them to. Who the hell is Danzig?!
I think dream weaver is one of those songs that you just can’t get enough of and I get goosebumps whenever the song comes on such a beautiful song released in 1975
In 1976 I was 15 and fell in love with this song first time I heard it! His voice was so mesmerizing and the song is beautiful. I still listen to all his music but this will always be my favorite. I loved your reactions thank you for doing this one.
Bless your heart Garry for making the SUPER 70S even more Super!
You have to check out Dan Hill - "Sometimes When We Touch"
Female Friday:
Samantha Sang - "Emotions"
Maxine Nightingale - "Right Back Where We Started"
Also from Maxine Nightingale, her other big hit: "Lead Me On."
Right Back Where We Started From! Instant mood lifter. Absolutely love that song.
@@ScarletHip119 Featured on the classic Slap Shot soundtrack
Jordan you will like Samantha Sang Emotions, I promise
I lived at Seattle International Raceway. (Now Pacific.) This guy raced a 70 Nova called the Dream Weaver Train. It had the most beautiful paint job and was BRUTALLY quick. Miss those day's. Thanks R.S.R. God Bless.
Congrats you two on 200k subscribers!!!
One of my favorite songs of the 70s. What a beautiful yet mysterious sound. It takes you to another plane level in life.
I got to see him in concert when this song was released and it was celestial cerebral ethereal
I couple skated to this song so many times in the 70s! Memories!
Magical song with all the feels. 💕
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This song profoundly affected my life during a very very dark time in my late teens. Basically kept me going. What’s so amazing I wrote to him years ago to tell him this, and he actually wrote me a very lovely letter back saying he appreciated hearing my story. ❤
With the invention of the internet it became possible to directly communicate with our idols/heroes. Gary Wright was one of those artists that I tried to emulate in my life and music. I met him at least three times at concerts and he was always so kind. He also answered my emails to him back in the early days of his website. His passing on 9/4/23 was a very sad day for me. He has a lot of good music, both as a solo artist and with the band Spooky Tooth from the 70s.
My best friend in junior high had this album. Always loved this song and My Love is Alive. Such good memories come floating back from 40 plus years ago.
Love seeing you young people appreciating great music. Love how amber is so into it. Love people that feel music like that
Great song I got to hear as a kid growing up in the 70s. Another song from that era I know both of you will enjoy is "YEAR OF THE CAT" by AL STEWART. This is one of those songs you have to listen to at least once in your life. But then it's like only eating one potato chip, you will listen to it many more times. The song is roughly based on the 1942 movie Casablanca so far as it takes place in a tourist market place somewhere in Northern Africa. The song was released in 1976 but the riff was something that Al heard played by a keyboardist named Peter Wood practicing for a show at Royal Albert Hall in 1975. AL asked if he could use it to write a song and Peter said yes. By the way 1975 was the year of the cat on the Vietnamese zodiac calendar.
Totally agree. Year of the cat is my all time favorite song. Amber loves the saxophone, this song is perfect to react to.
Year of the Cat is an awesome song. It was produced by Alan Parsons, the engineer on the Beatles' albums Abbey Road & Let It Be and most famously was the engineer on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
I liked Time passages.
Gary Wright passed away yesterday on Labor Day (9-4-2023) Dream Weaver was his most popular song. Parts of it appear in Wayne's World. Next to Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Gary was one of the most talented and innovative keyboard players and earliest pioneers of introducing the synthesizer as a common instrument. I suggest you plug into Gary Wright's previous band before he embarked on his solo career. It was called Spooky Tooth. If you enjoy Dream Weaver, then you will be blown away by a song called "Fantasy Satisfier', which features Gary Wright on vocals and keyboards. The album is called The Mirror, and featured one of the best album covers ever with a cutaway front that showed part of the inside artwork.
I'm so glad you guys finally got to do this song , so many memories back in the 70's driving back roads and this song would always come on the radio late at night ,
Not only are you two simply beautiful people, but your love of music and your enthusiasm when first discovering something new to you gives me such joy! I know I could sit down with you both and talk music for hours! Your warmth and intelligence continually shine through. Thank you, thank you.
Enjoyed this song. One i have heard many times but never really listened to. Song suggestion that i think you will LOVE is Dont Answer Me, The Alan Parsons Project and Eye in the Sky by the same group.
Another great APP song is Games People Play.
If the listen to Alan Parsons tgey have to listen to The Raven or The Cask of Amontillado from their Takes of Mystery and Imagination album, which is all songs based upon Edgar Allen Poe stories.
Eye in the sky preceded by Sirius is EPIC!!! very trippy in a way!! Also check out Asia’s Only Time Will Tell!!! The beginning part is just epic too! It might startle you if you’re not ready for it! It comes up fast! LOL
Love this song and reaction r.i.p. Gary , ✌️🎶
One of my favorite songs EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Same with my dad. Can you believe this song was from 1976? It was WAY ahead of its time. Both of his big hits that year peaked at #2. The other one is "Love Is Alive." It's also way up there on the coolness scale!!!
Bill the 70s were a head of their times lol I have heard read of 100s if not 1000s of songs from the 70s being a head of their YEARS LOL
One of my most favorite songs ever
Another big hit that played on the radio was"SEASONS IN THE SON" by(TERRY JACKS).My friends and I would request this song on the radio,had to run out and buy it.
That song has a very interesting history, as it was originally a 1961 song "Le Moribond" by Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel. Terry Jacks to a translated version of the lyrics and changed them around to get the version of the song we know and love. Interestingly, fellow Canadian David Foster played piano and double base on "Seasons in the Sun", and he also played piano, organ and synthesiser on Gary Wright's "Dreamweaver"!
We had joy we had fun....we had seasons in the sun.
Wow...takes me back!
oh wow... now THERE is a song from the 'Almost Forgotten' dusty bin of '70s hits! I remember that one from when I was riding bikes around our little town every day on summer vacation with my friends! love that song!
SEASONS IN THE SUN was a #1 hit song in early 1974, first in Canada then in the US & the world. It was Terry Jacks' one hit wonder though he had put out a few other singles right after 'Seasons'! His ex wife Susan Jacks sang the background vocals on the tune
I was a kid when Seasons in the Sun came out. Would always put a lump in my throat, but I wasn't going to cry. (At least that anyone could see.)
I so enjoy listening to music with Rob and Amber. Thank you 🙏 ❤
I love this song! I remember my older sister showed it to me the first time. 💓
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Gary Wright is an American Rock singer/synthesizer player. He has had a very long music career, going back to 1960 (before that, he was a child actor). In the late-1960s and early-1970s, Wright was in a band named Spooky Tooth. In the 1970s, he did a lot of session musician work for George Harrison's solo albums. After the breakup of Spooky Tooth, Gary Wright focused on his solo music career. Wright became the first Rock music artist to have synthesizers as the primary sound on his albums. His greatest musical success took place between 1976 and 1982. Gary Wright, according to Wikipedia, spent most of the 1980s at home with his family. He returned to active recording and touring in the late-1980s. Gary Wright is 78 years old.
Two other hit songs/music videos by Gary Wright are "Love Is Alive" and "Really Wanna Know You".
i wanna say that this song is one of all time faves. when i walked down corrider in a mall & hear that opening few notes, i would stop & just stand there & listen to the song. LOVE IT! glad you guys like it too
Here we are 50 years later, still listening to this gem of a song.
I still love this song after all these years. I'm so glad y'all enjoyed it too! ♥
This guy is fantastic in concert I highly recommend
Saw him in concert in '74 and he put on a good show. Of course, this song was the highlight!
You probably saw him in '75. Album dropped that summer.
I was 8 Years Old when this Song came out. It was played at our School Dances and Skating Rinks.
"Love is Alive" is a must to fully appreciate his unique talent. 👍💕
Man I love watching you guys feel the music and react to it! Also love you guys as a team! The couple that jams together stays together! 🙌🏼😎 Thanks for the awesome videos.
Saw him back in 1976 along with Peter Frampton and Yes at the RFK stadium in Washington DC. Good memories!!😎😎😎😎
Frampton 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@brucemerryman7365 , saw Frampton and Yes 30+ years later in Baltimore with the same person I'd seen the original concert with (whom I hadn't seen in almost as long). Ah, life!😎😎😎😎
Way back in the day when we were lucky to be able to record songs onto cassette off the radio, this was one of my favorites. I got most of it recorded (the DJ was talking during part of the intro) and then filled the cassette with other songs that were great but didn't neatly fall into a particular category.
Don't forget to check out the band "Mr. Mister", the song "Kyrie" (not like the basketball player), this is the transliteration of the Greek "kyrie eleēson" into Latin Kyrie eleison ( KEE-ree-yay ee-LAY-ee-sohn, meaning “Lord, have mercy”), the word is used as a preliminary petition before a formal prayer and as a congregational response in the liturgies of many Christian churches.
When I 1st heard this song, I was probably 3 years old, standing in the backseat of my Mom's big, green Oldsmobile. It was the 70's, we lived on the edge. Lol. I remember thinking this song felt magical. Of course I had no idea what he was talking about. I've always loved this song.
Great reaction video (as usual) y'all.
Same. Even as a child, I knew this song was transformational.
This song transports me back to high school ..Great song and memory .RIP Gary Wright
This song easily helps me relax after a very stressful day.
Brings back a memory of seeing him in Concert. I'm glad to have seen so many artists live. Nothing like it.
Hey Guys,
Amber's in her happy place with this one. Love you guys.
Gary Weaver creates a very eclectic, cosmic, dreamworld atmosphere which uniquely sets the mood for the lyrics! It was a prelude to "New Age" music which started emerging in the 1980s. A gold hit for Gary....#2 on the Hot-100 and more than 1,000,000 copies sold! Dream Weaver brings back so many great memories of the carefree 1970s. Thank you for your wonderful reactions! 😊♥👏🏾🎤🎶🎸🥁🎹💯🛼🪩
Halfway through the seventies, this song hit the hit lists and it was pure synthesizer and keyboard, apart from the drums. A revolution, which I guess led to the synth pop in the eighties eventually. At the time, synthesizers were new, used mostly by prog bands like ELP, Genesis and Yes, and Kraftwerk (Autobahn) or strange hit songs (Popcorn).
And Tangerine Dream
This song is so beautiful, it takes you away, and relaxes you into an escape from any pain or worry.
Had this album on vinyl and played it literally everyday for months! Absolutely one of my favorites.
RIP Gary Wright. Great song you did. Love it
Now, from the same era, but a smooth groove: Boz Scaggs "Low Down" from his 1976 Silk Degrees Lp. Backup musicians include the nucleus of what became the band Toto. Dig that drum groove by Jeff Porcaro
Gary Wright was also famous for being part of a band called Spooky Tooth, a great group from the late 60's to early 70's !
I had the eight track when it came out and would put the headphones on and go to another world. One of the most amazing songs I ever heard. It came out at the same time frame as Fleetwood Mac Rhiannon, Frampton Comes Alive, Steve Miller Fly like an Eagle, Queen Bohemian Rhapsody, Heart Magic Man, & Aerosmith Toys in the Attic. 1975-76 was probably the most transformative period in music history.
WAS FANTASTIC To be a teen in 1975 and 76 Kansas came out 76 Also, And Born to run in 75 ,
No matter how many times I've heard this song, I always stop everything and listen. So glad you love this song. 👍😁🤙
Yes, I love how you both completely tuned in to the consciousness-raising theme of the song. :) Gary Wright is a longtime meditator. "According to Gary Wright, the song was inspired by Autobiography of a Yogi, which was given to him by George Harrison. Paramahansa Yogananda's poem "God! God! God!" made reference to "the idea of the mind weaving dreams".
Absolutely love this song. I can close my eyes and it relaxes me.
The unique-ness of this, and his other hit from the same album, was that these two songs were fully recorded on a keyboard synthesizer, which, at the time, was very rare, and, as far as I am aware, had never been done before with a top hit. No other artist or instrument was used. Later, Moby, and others, would do this. But Wright's was quite possibly the very first.
😲❤One of my ALL time favourites!!! ...These levitating synth-strings!!!.......these lyrics to it.....
Remembers me of the legendary Solina String-ensemble.. A product, which was taken from the string-section of thé, also legendary, Eminent 310 Unique; the Oxygene-Jarre machine. Dútch, of course😊 Fántástic, never surpassed kind of performance!❤
This was my husband and my song. We've been married for 48 years.
Beautiful song, oh man simply Beautiful
Another good hit from Gary Wright is "Really Wanna Know You".
Boy!! Haven't heard this in years...brought "shivers" to me. I guess because of how lucky I've grown up in the 1970s...with soooo much diverse music that was ORIGINAL!!! Rock, R & B, Disco, Country, etc. man the 70s were the BEST!!
Great pick, brings back childhood memories. Would love to hear "Devil Woman" by Cliff Richards.
When I was a young man in the early to mid 80's there was this long, lovely dancer in a little club downtown (thank you Bob Segar) who danced to this song. Boy, was she a dream weaver....😍
For 1972, the sound of this song was way ahead of it's time with the clean and clear use of synthesizers and to this day it still stands out on its own and never sounds outdated.
That's because it wasn't released in '72
This and "Love is Alive" bring back happy childhood memories. Thanks for the spin!
It's so cool that you guys are digging all the 1970s hits. Music on demand was non-existent back then. It was on the radio, or you had some money to buy a 45 or an LP album.
Remember Casey Kasem American Top 40 radio show every Sunday? I liked the back story of the long distant dedications.
What really stands out in this song is the awesome bass groove they have going on.
When the NFL awarded Jacksonville a team, the first owner of the Jaguars was Wayne Weaver. They played the chorus of this song everywhere he got introduced in Jacksonville since he made our dream come true.
Thats hilarious.
Wow he just passed and been listening non stop and these two popped up wow you guys are great!