Crown Heights Affair - Dreaming A Dream 1975-1977

This is my mix of a fantastic dance song. This mix includes the vocal version with the disco dance version.
I remember being able to dance to this song all night long. Hope you enjoy this mix.

[@JBlingBling03]

I can’t begin to describe how much I used to love this song!!!! Saw them at New York’s Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden in my late teens .All was good in the world back then. One of my favorite songs by them! I love the lead singer’s voice!!!! I loved the vocals, the synthesizer,guitars, and those HORNS!!!! One of the best groups around back then!!!

[@alsue4752]

I'd listen to this song in my 76' Grand Prix , pumped all the way , driving and dancing music like this will likely never happen again. Lucky to have been there then !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting !!!!

[@swt32567]

T.S.O.N.Y. The Sound Of New York ! ! ! Viva Crown Heights Affair y Viva the 70's ! ! ! Thanx Bhamdave52 for posting both versions. This is one of the greatest Dico songs ever.This song is pure Dico 70's. I was a young soldier when Dreaming A Dream was released & far from home. This always takes me back whenever I hear it. Sadly we lost the Great Sax man Bert Reid on12/12/2004 to lung cancer.This was a magical time when music ruled the airwaves. R.I.P. Bert Reid & Frankie Crocker.

[@10904454]

The Best of the BEST‼‼❗

[@Multi1628]

~ 1975-77 and still fresh in 2018. We wore out the original 7" of this and "Every Beat of My Heart" in New Orleans in 1975. The extended new version original 12" came out in '77, and we wore that out as well, along with Carrie Lucas "I Gotta Keep Dancing." All good in the aughts. Cheers, DAVEDJ ~

[@robertortiz8540]

I was 15 years old when I played this song on a 45.

[@tapriciasiwel1198]

I remember the first time I heard crown heights affair they were playing this very song in prospect park in Brooklyn!!!!!!! The year was 1974 I walked from ft green projects to the park n before u got to the park u could hear the music is was magical!!!!

[@lillianeg02]

I was 15 years old. My partner David Rivera hustled our butt off!

[@stevengallanter665]

Growing up in the suburbs the Brooklyn sound of Crown Heights Affair, Brass Construction and B.T. Express was often described as "ghetto." Yet, listening to this 40+ years later the romanticism is what comes through.

[@timtene3030]

you're listening to DJ timmy t AND WBLS 107.5 in stereo in NYC

[@swt32567]

I listened to this wonderful disco tune when it was new on WBLS 107.5 FM with the late great D.J. Frankie Crocker "The Real Rocker" back in 1975. R.I.P. Frankie Crocker, Bert Reid, Raymond Reid, & James "Ajax" Baynard.

[@mannypintado8349]

This was The Disco Infused beat that made The 70's so great and now in August 2020, In a middle of a deadly pandemic and much turmoil in the USA, we still love dancing to this Classic.

[@JerseyGurl4Life]

I haven't heard THIS VERSION since I bought the 8-Track. :-D

[@ervin6]

Hey Mookie, If you're still around I remember You!

[@10904454]

He's ALIVE and Kicking !!living in Europe for the last 30yrs+ GOD BLESS

[@bkgloriaful]

This is the true version!! Back in the Days of disco went to a dance contest and this song made me$1000.00 for first prize 4 Ever Brooklyn

[@patrickfitzsimmons3788]

Beautiful i remember when it came out i was around 16 at the time

[@cintiamarques]

Oh My God What a fantastic discovery here on youtube!!!! This so reminds me of our good old parties back in the mid late 70´s (down here in São Paulo, Brazil) at the prime of disco music! Each song was a work of art, and this one, on the tops! I remember they used to play it on tv as background for surf scenes too..

[@charleslassiter1116]

I dunno if this is originally from the record or a special mix somebody did on their own but this was the same way that classic jam was played back in the era of those glorious disco nights... and man does this takes me back (three-piece suit and all). I was looking for an extended version like this of this jam for so long. Great post, thanks for sharing!!!

[@726taino]

@bkadst OMG! me too! When we use to hear there was going to be someone playing in the park, we used to run. Those were the best days doing the hustle and just being kids.

[@anthonyanderson8592]

when i was younger it didn't even hit me... i grew up in crown heights lol

[@davidheliker9600]

Heaven on EARTH!

[@donnalee917]

+David Heliker Like love when it's right!

[@energy1concept]

Song reminds me of Midland Avenue in East Orange New Jersey back in the day

[@JerseyGurl4Life]

Like Da Donna said below, ..."could not find the song with the vocals anywhere and was starting to think that I imagined them." Yeah. me too!

[@HorsdSF]

THIS is the best version of this song - so love it! Thanks!

[@salsera59]

@2009Denisem Sweety,by posting on here,whether music,or comments,we are making it count. Peace to you too ! I just wonder what happened to all our friends from those days. Thank God you and I are still here and somehow giving remembrance to them & the good times we shared....And yes, i do remember the lights and playing scullies,cocoleo 1 2 3 and kings on the stoops. Hey,i still play handball at the age of 50..,im a baby boomer,what could i say?! And loving it !You take care now,precious..,

[@slogan505]

memories la la la la..........:-)

[@flatbush46]

BROOKLYN STAND UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@timmytene2706]

You're listening to DJ Timmy T and WBLS 107*5 in Stereo in NYC 🎧

[@sjr10011]

Turn it up!!!

[@Bluesnowman101]

Julius Dillagard Jr on lead vocals! An amazing vocalist and performer! Now playing with STAX of SOUL @ 12 Grapes in Peekskill NY 2/16/13 830pm!

[@sp4armyguy1]

I remeber when I was @Ft.Riley,Ks when this came out. We used to do the hustle to this at the NCO Club on Friday nights.

[@swt32567]

Albert Chapman, I was @ Ft. Hood, TX @ the same time & we used to go up to the DFW & Hustle all night to this @ Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde's Disco. Wonderful memories & days. Peace Soldier ! Hoo Rah !

[@scorpivision]

This absolutely IS a fantastic song, one of the nearly-lost disco greats. About time KZbinrs started getting on the case of the Crown Heights Affair! The combination of these two versions is so good I can't stand it. Thank you!!

[@slogan505]

oh those were the days "wilson ave" baby 2 blocks from Kick. park Bklyn, NY

[@salsera59]

@2009Denisem I hear you ,baby ! I remember the block parties,where no one complained about the music they were hearing real loud,and the hooky sets our parents used to come get us from,then stay themselves? Lol..,Daggg,mama ruined everything ! But i thank her in a way,or else i wouldve been barefoot, pregnant & uneducated ;) God Bless Carroll Pk,The "Salsa" Discotech,The "Delavan",The "Red Plum","Orange Peel" & the 70's era period ! Just give me one more day to go back and i'll make it count.

[@bigben1986]

ahhhhhh shit pennsylvania ave in full effect i mean can ya dig it! GET ON DOWN TO DA BOOGIE!!!!!!!

[@sp4armyguy1]

@Jaimebugs do they still have the Labor Day celebrations on Eastern Pkwy.? I haven't been home in a long time. I miss NYC

[@tremolando6066]

yeh its great, but why the toy piano all over it?!

[@caesarg86]

i use to live at 207 Irving...whats your name

[@irenepagan8635]

im Irene aka Baby Hey,Caesar,name some names,we probably know each other too. Peace be onto you,as well as love to you..

[@ifran77]

There was a remix of this I heard in the 90s that was more like a deep house tune, anyone know what I'm talking about?

[@bkadst]

Hey Guys: Welcome back to Brooklyn . I was there @ Knickerbocker Park on the Irving Ave. side. We use to hang out there while the D- Jays were Jammin this.OH those memories!! That was the best times of my life The 70s We use to hang out all night long till the sun come up. I use to live @ 205 Irving Ave near and Himrod St

[@salsera59]

I love this jam so much. You could hustle to it or breakdance. I especially like that it is both the vocal and instrumental version,kinda nicely mixed. My favorite part is the vocal,where they sing,"I had a dream,a dream of you and meeeeeeeee..,ahhhh,go head baby!!!

[@vernonwatts7374]

Irene P

[@downbylaw4120]

Breakdance?? Really?? Wrong Era.! Its the Hustle babygirl.!

[@irenepagan8635]

I'd rather hustle to it too,babe,but I was referring to the guy dancers with the baggy pants and long chained pocket watches. Perhaps that style of dance had another name instead of,"breakdance". But I hear you. It tis the Hustle!

[@downbylaw4120]

@@irenepagan8635 much l💗ve from brooklyn, ny ✌🏿

[@donowens7872]

Used to jam this in Chi-Town way back in the day. Fantastic memories of what can never be again.

[@gachazman]

Ft Eustis NCO club,on satirday night. The best of times.

[@swt32567]

I was stationed @ Ft.Hood,TX in Charlie Co. 1/66 Armor of General Patton's own 2D Armored Division. Hustled & partied hearty to this many nights @ Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hydes Disco in Dallas,TX. We truely lived for those weekends back then didn't we. Sincerely Santo A. Chase Colonel,Armor USA(Ret.)

[@roberthennegan5810]

great song that didn't get it's just due

[@wally-fz9sf]

Thank you for this. I've been looking for a combination of the two versions for years. You couldn't find the vocal version anywhere on line for a long time, and now I can listen to both together. Wonderful!

[@irenepagan8635]

Does anyone remember a record that came out in the late 70's,or early 80's,that towards the end the singer says,"See you later and have a nice day". I'm sure it was a disco song...

[@thrbearmank]

second story in philly back in 70s--how high---the bear

[@dadonna3766]

Thanks for putting this up. I could not find the song with the vocals anywhere and was starting to think that I imagined them. And yes sp4amyguy1 they still have the parade on Eastern Pkway.

[@williamsheffey1958]

Nice

[@Jaimebugs]

@2009Denisem Yeah they were!! (Remember the HUGE Eastern Parkway Labor Day celebrations, circa 1978-1980?? Those were the "Jimmy Joint!!!"