Dan Hartman I Can Dream About You ( Iive on David Letterman)

[@cblchildrenspython]

He originally wrote this song for Hall and Oats but they passed on it, he just sang it himself! Even better live

[@KOHF34]

Their loss!

[@walterpereira9641]

Muito bom

[@allenlaurent8168]

He actually sounds like the lead singer of Hall & Oates

[@vlada]

That totally sounds like a Hall & Oates song. This song is made to measure for Darryl.

[@vlada]

​@@KOHF34not a total loss, they finally did record their version of this song 20 yrs later (which is 20 yrs ago!!)

[@user-dx8wy1zs5p]

Edgar winter ...this guy wrote and sang many hits. This song if made today would be number one on the charts for weeks

[@christalweb4531]

What a gifted live performer 😮

[@IowanMatthew683]

RIP Dan Hartman, one of the most underrated singer-songwriters in modern history.

[@dougsmith7083]

He was a great songwriter and could write a great song in a pretty diverse musical palate...Died too soon

[@tednorton5150]

in matters of the heart, it all ` starts with a beat fix me up a four count no rocks just keep it neat and when I hit the floor I'm only dancing While Dan's Singing (for Dan Hartman)

[@chrissimpson6701]

Don't say white guys aren't hip. We miss you Dan.

[@DonRedmond-qb3we]

Too many to name in my opinion that were hip! I always seen it this way, either you have it or you don't!

[@FriendofDorothy]

Who still says white guys aren't hip?? Listen to Daryl Hall, Bobby Hatfield, George Michaels... jeesh... get real...

[@lujuanhurtado8664]

bobby caldwell definitely had it too and that's being real and straight up about it .....

[@tap585grad706]

Great to see Dan sing this live! Sounds just as good as the record! Nice to see the songwriter sing his own song!

[@luv2mx]

Man I miss that partnership of music and vocals.

[@DC-hf7td]

Bass with Edgar Winters. Disco hits. 80s gold. A Production list a mile long. Well played, Dan

[@TomSwanPlaysGuitar]

Never saw this before. Thank you for posting. We knew each other casually being in local rock bands in the 60s in PA. Everybody said Dan would be a star. He was well known as a guitar wizard and gifted singer even in his early teens. I can confirm that is his real voice. He really was that good.

[@MrBassface06]

So glad he took the song and sang it himself. Hall and Oates wouldn’t have done it justice! #87baby 🥲

[@josealcocer7373]

T.M Stevens on Bass. He played bass on all Tina Turner's songs that Hartman produced

[@jasonwhite7452]

I just love the little laughter he busts out into before the last verse! Clearly having a great time and loving the moment! RIP Dan! Wish you were still here with us!

[@RobJNathanSings]

Amen to this. Wish he was still here, what a talent. I covered this recently and it's a tough song to do live.

[@jasonwhite7452]

@@RobJNathanSings That was an amazing cover of that song! Very well done! I just subscribed! Now I’m gonna go binge watch everything else! Jason (Upstate Ny)

[@annaritaranalli1791]

He sung well alive too and he had really a soul singing voice

[@xaniiu]

Damn sounds like the record. Holy Crap

[@mixolydian9102]

OMFG! WOW! just WOW! what a performance! The backing vocals are amazing!

[@moddie6783]

A huge radio and video hit in the 80's. Great song and even better talent.

[@kidjustice3220]

*_FANTASTIC, EXCELLENT and REMARKABLE.... rest in peace, Dan Hartman.... baby, you're the best!_*

[@user-dx8wy1zs5p]

Sounds like a Hall and Oats song...boy they missed out but doing himself wow what a talent. Beauiful song. Vocals upper level heavenly

[@jonthomas8569]

He sounds great live! Dan Hartman had such a soulful voice, and it never sounded forced. It just came out of him.

[@semmcstevenson]

Killer performance and live vocal Dan.

[@Rick-o7w]

Dan Hartman, a musician of remarkable talent and song, also quite handsome sadly passed away from AIDS in his Westport, CT mansion on March 22, 1994. He was 43 years old. Posted 9/9/2024

[@FriendofDorothy]

particularly sad because in another 2 years they had the "drug cocktail" that jump-kicked the immune system of hundreds of people with AIDS and gave them a new lease on life .

[@markivoygoogy]

Listening to him sing it live you'd think its an easy song to sing. Great voice incredible talent. RIP Dan Hartman

[@my1vice]

I've heard this song since it came out..... And I just now realized that it is the same Dan Hartman from the Edgar Winter Group.....

[@danielc1978]

Wow, what a performance and vocal! Very cool!

[@bvg83]

He sounded exactly like the record 😉

[@albertoluizsimoescaldeira6626]

Yeah, amazing

[@jimmymckay73]

Very close to the studio version , he had a great talent .

[@user-qj9cd3yr1z]

It's a different song when you realize he singing to another man

[@318greenman]

Absolutely loved hearing a live performance... You can't get much more joyful than this song. Very glad to know he wrote it as well and I can see why he wanted to give it to Daryl Hall and Oates because it does sound like their style but I'm so glad it's his... If this song doesn't make you fall in love it makes you wish you were in love 💜

[@sibastoune]

VERY good looking and talented.

[@HumphreyBrando]

It is just amazing how he sounds and sings live in the same way to the record. Thanks Dan, I am so depress as a hell and your music is helping me .

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Very good performance

[@user-dx8wy1zs5p]

All time favorite...talent

[@douglas2902]

Love to back to the time when this was being played on the radio

[@FriendofDorothy]

I have a feeling some of the people raving about this performance and Dan Hartman also pride themselves on hating "disco" and are probably not aware that Hartman put out a number of great and successful disco hits. That's the funny thing about Disco : the people who love to hate on it think it "died" by the end of the '70s. It did not; it only died as a cultural fad.. Disco just put on a new hat and was given a different marketing label. Nowadays whenever I ask young people what kind of music they like best they say "'80s music....oh, and disco, because it's happy music". The disco haters were basically racists, rock purists, and homophobes. Dan Hartman's disco records were epic in sound and us dancers loved them ! Check out the pure joy in his incendiary duet "Keep the Fire Burnin' with the legendary Loleatta Holloway (who Markie Mark also collaborated with on "Good Vibration"!).

[@SoundOfYourDestiny]

This is a really good performance. I don't hate all new music, but this really does shame the auto-tuned trash that dominates the popular-music scene today.

[@user-zi8ux6fy2n]

If you haven't seen "Streets of Fire" (a Rock&Roll Fable) suggest you put it in your "To Do List"... you'll like it😎🤙🎷🎸🎹... very UNDERRATED 🎥 FILM

[@user-dx8wy1zs5p]

Good looking too

[@greekgladiator7735]

Absolute 80’s gold!

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Thanks

[@AYRYZIGER]

Hall & Oates had already recorded, mixed and finished the album when Dan Hartman offered it to them. Passing on the song is understandable. They did record their own version with slightly changed lyrics some 20 years later.

[@FriendofDorothy]

Hall and Oates were business guys, not just musicians. They probably didn't want to do outside material so they could make songwriting income on their own tunes.

[@billbeaumont168]

The Simms Bros. on backing vocals!! Love this performance. great energy from everyone in this video, but I'm sort of biased 'cause I'm a huge SimmsBros. fan. I miss hearing them and seeing them work. Thanks for posting this.

[@jimmyhunter2799]

winston ford also RIP did a stellar job singing on the movie sound track version of this Hartman penned certified hit

[@SaverioP]

He played bass in The Edgar Winter Group and wrote a lot of good tunes.

[@jrlsports9490]

Love the old Letterman shows and watching Paul rock out in the background. I can dream.

[@annaritaranalli1791]

After 30 years i discovered this gorgeous singing voice belonged to unlucky and talented dan hartman and not to stoney jackson

[@marcofreitas3844]

What a talent. May he rest in peace.

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Backup 's singers were talented too

[@ericbernardo9161]

I dont know if anyone still remember but this song is da ost of michael pare action flick street of fire back in da 1980s.still listening even in 2024.im 51 😅😅😅

[@lonniereynolds7895]

"STILL REMEMBER THE SONG"?!?!?! I was "12 YEARS OLD GOING ON 13 YEARS OLD" when "STREETS OF FIRE" came out!! This song was "DAN HARTMAN'S BIGGEST HIT"!! I loved the song "BACK IN THE DAY.... I LOVE IT EVEN MORE SO NOW"!! 👍✌️🙏👌😃😇😀

[@jmiller297]

*SO GOOD!!!*

[@ericgreene5363]

Musical genius.

[@user-mb1sy9uz6z]

Check out Dan sporting red, black & those shades!!❤ RIHP Sag King!

[@T11639]

From the days before boy bands. Gary Barlow wishes he had a tenth of Dan's natural talent.

[@tomnelson7898]

When was this? Somebody? I’m going down this Dan Hartman rabbit hole. Didn’t know he did this song. Didn’t know he wrote free ride for Edgar winter. Also didn’t know Kiss guitarist Vinnie Vincent was in his “Instant Replay” music video and I think on his album (yes, just checked.). Talented MF.

[@larryb3946]

Oh the 80's... miss them times. I thought the guys in the movie streets of fire really sang it originally.... kinda like Milli Vanill though. Great song!

[@paulrom446]

What a Treasure! Thanks for this video!

[@Adulteducation8]

Good God, this sounds better than the record! He’s hitting all the notes! Had no idea he could perform like this!

[@barrybradshaw675]

Love this live.

[@philipwilliams1754]

He killed it on Soul Train.

[@rubenfiero]

This just greeeeaaat!!!!!!

[@-GRAVESITE-]

One of the best. Wish there was footage of the bass suit he made.

[@mateus4523]

Yes, yes, you can!!!

[@petercalicchio4973]

Incredible

[@rigormortis414]

Dan Hartman shared many musical and personal similarities with George Michael -- on the surface, they were very much alike.

[@calvinshrieves3862]

Love love love this song ❤

[@effycaroann]

I love it

[@ryanthec]

Wow…he can really wail. I wasn’t expecting that.

[@heidivert830]

Love this rip dan❤

[@adcolt54]

Was this when the Letterman show was at daytime?

[@mikestevenson576]

It was from a special episode early in the run of Late Night. If I recall, Dave wasn't on Friday nights at that time because of either SCTV or Friday Night Videos. But that week they gave Letterman the Friday slot to do a 'music special'. They booked Hartman, a fairly unknown Bangles, and Boy George's mother.

[@CesarCano-qr8do]

Gran cantante Dart , histórico de los ochenta que recuerdos inolvidables , la época de oro de la música Disco

[@mariag4381]

❤ this song

[@tammief3515]

this a good song

[@methenyjazz]

Looks like T.M stevens on bass

[@user-bb3dj9ri8e]

Same as record really great live song

[@patriciaactis]

great

[@flowperformanceparts]

My whole life, I thought this singer was a black man 😅😅😅😅 beautiful voice ! From Brazil , Indaiatuba SP

[@CesarCano-qr8do]

Los ochenta inolvidables

[@jimmymckay73]

I remember this was the time i found out that movies were not real . I thought for sure the actors were really singing the song in the movie . Now i have serious trust issues lol.

[@TheLeafsConvo]

Fucking amazing

[@marcoscesargomesferreira8554]

Adoro essa música....

[@frankdill1370]

wow

[@mateus4523]

Yes, l can!!

[@berternie4170]

Love you Dan

[@spaceflip-zj2bm]

Cocaine's a hellava drug

[@tednorton5150]

love the song love dan but there's a rhythm guitar too up on the board and it's rattling and driving me insane. anybody else hear it ? ahahah

[@BmwHorse]

84❤

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Back singers were good too but i prefer song without sax

[@vincemcgeehan4555]

Sadly Dan has been dead for years….

[@Lance37a]

Almost 30 years.

[@paulxavier431]

Love the less funky Sorels.

[@stupendous1068]

Joel Edgerton's twin brother.

[@TempeSoldier123]

Who?

[@stupendous1068]

@@TempeSoldier123 Joel Edgerton. Famous actor who looks like this guy.

[@darylhoskins5696]

Better vid on soul train !

[@peacefanz]

hall y oates have a pale version from 2004

[@honestone490]

It pales in comparison is being very kind.

[@rs4425]

date

[@torstenheling3830]

So sad to know Dan Hartman died of an AIDS-related fungal brain tumor in 1994. Tragic end to such a talented guy, just because he was gay.

[@ericlee2931]

He was wearing a medical mask around his neck..???

[@honestone490]

No it is not. I went to his "We are the Young" performance here on KZbin. It appears he's in the same shirt and now I can see in that video that it's actually a dance mask he's wearing around his neck. I guess this attire was popular to wear in some disco clubs from the early to mid 1980's. Personally, I don't remember seeing them in the late 1980's in the Progressive Clubs I went to.

[@deborahwilson2857]

Damn HIV, it took Freddie too! 💔

[@user-qj9cd3yr1z]

A different song when you realize he singing to another man

[@VIDEOHEREBOB]

Not saying he isn't a great singer, but I don't think this entire vocal is live. This is a challenging vocal to pull off live. Just my opinion as a singer.

[@conniep8616]

I really think it was live. He never hit a flat note on the record, but did get flat a few times in this preformance. Not enough to matter much.

[@jorgedavies1443]

It's live..

[@jorgedavies1443]

It's live..1:56 and after, there are phrases that aren't on the record. And Hurricane Carla on Sax is live too..

[@matthewanzelone]

Singer here, too; and I was inclined to agree with you. This is a no-joke song to pull off live, plus he’s moving around a lot. But he starts going off script about halfway through, even walks past his monitors and keeps right on killing it. He was just a super stud. Also, his mic positioning is amazing, you never miss a millisecond. R.I.P. to a dude who found what he was born to do.

[@Nostaljack]

Too many variations from the original to have been lip synced. I'm certain it's all live.

[@ColumbiaQT2001]

The Streets of Fire version was sang by someone else and it sounded better.

[@josealcocer7373]

T.M Stevens on Bass. He played bass on all Tina Turner's songs that Hartman produced