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

[@plasticsoul9051]

Dan Hartman was a musical genius. He doesn’t get the credit he deserves.

[@kidjustice3220]

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

[@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)

[@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!!)

[@jonthomas8569]

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

[@tap585grad706]

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

[@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)

[@markivoygoogy]

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

[@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 💜

[@mixolydian9102]

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

[@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.

[@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.....

[@christalweb4531]

What a gifted live performer 😮

[@semmcstevenson]

Killer performance and live vocal Dan.

[@xaniiu]

Damn sounds like the record. Holy Crap

[@DC-hf7td]

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

[@danielc1978]

Wow, what a performance and vocal! Very cool!

[@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 .

[@douglas2902]

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

[@moddie6783]

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

[@MrBassface06]

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

[@edwoll]

I wouldn't say that they wouldn't have done it justice. Only because everything they sang, they did justice to.

[@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 .....

[@sibastoune]

VERY good looking and talented.

[@gilmardosanjos]

Ele era ótimo ao vivo! E que banda maravilhosa, tocavam demais!!!!

[@greekgladiator7735]

Absolute 80’s gold!

[@RickDOnofrio-dl3su]

Great memories of my youth and the ladies ❤😂😢😅❤

[@luv2mx]

Man I miss that partnership of music and vocals.

When was the last time we heard someone actually sing a song, rather than lipsinc??? Fantastic!!!

[@grapefruitm00n]

All the time

[@LoPerez-x6i]

All time favorite...talent

[@LoPerez-x6i]

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

[@jrlsports9490]

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

[@calvinshrieves3862]

Love love love this song ❤

[@primusmoss-ln6jc]

He was GREAT live! DUG that performance!

[@annaritaranalli1791]

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

[@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.

[@LoPerez-x6i]

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

[@marcofreitas3844]

What a talent. May he rest in peace.

[@jimmyhunter2799]

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

[@josealcocer7373]

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

[@jmiller297]

*SO GOOD!!!*

[@bvg83]

He sounded exactly like the record 😉

[@albertoluizsimoescaldeira6626]

Yeah, amazing

[@jimmymckay73]

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

[@TimPerdue-n8w]

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

[@barrybradshaw675]

Love this live.

[@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 .

[@NorbertoFontanez]

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

[@paulrom446]

What a Treasure! Thanks for this video!

[@CesarCano-qr8do]

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

[@ericgreene5363]

Musical genius.

[@dennisalexandercabico9481]

RIP Dan Hartman 🙏.

[@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"!).

[@effycaroann]

I love it

[@petercalicchio4973]

Incredible

[@JoannHines-g6f]

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

[@rubenfiero]

This just greeeeaaat!!!!!!

[@heidivert830]

Love this rip dan❤

[@mariag4381]

❤ this song

[@SaverioP]

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

[@RickDOnofrio-dl3su]

White men can sing!!!❤😂😢

[@marcoscesargomesferreira8554]

Adoro essa música....

[@mateus4523]

Yes, yes, you can!!!

[@Adulteducation8]

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

[@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.

[@-GRAVESITE-]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@philipwilliams1754]

He killed it on Soul Train.

[@tammief3515]

this a good song

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Very good performance

[@CesarCano-qr8do]

Los ochenta inolvidables

[@berternie4170]

Love you Dan

[@T11639]

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

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Thanks

[@patriciaactis]

great

[@TheLeafsConvo]

Fucking amazing

[@methenyjazz]

Looks like T.M stevens on bass

[@ryanthec]

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

[@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"!! 👍✌️🙏👌😃😇😀

[@FlordelizaGunting]

Same as record really great live song

[@flowperformanceparts]

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

[@LoPerez-x6i]

Good looking too

[@Upallnightagainandagain]

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.

[@rigormortis414]

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

[@mateus4523]

Yes, l can!!

[@frankdill1370]

wow

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Backup 's singers were talented too

[@annaritaranalli1791]

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

[@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.

[@spaceflip-zj2bm]

Cocaine's a hellava drug

[@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.

[@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

[@Thataintnothing]

Better vid on soul train !

[@stupendous1068]

Joel Edgerton's twin brother.

[@TempeSoldier123]

Who?

[@stupendous1068]

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

[@BmwHorse]

84❤

[@vincemcgeehan4555]

Sadly Dan has been dead for years….

[@Lance37a]

Almost 30 years.

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Back singers were good too but i prefer song without sax

[@peacefanz]

hall y oates have a pale version from 2004

[@honestone490]

It pales in comparison is being very kind.

[@paulxavier431]

Love the less funky Sorels.

[@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.

[@rs4425]

date

[@deborahwilson2857]

Damn HIV, it took Freddie too! 💔