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This was the process that resulted in an early version of Daydream in Blue, which sampled The Gunter Kallmann Choir's version of "Daydream". After finishing their first album These Are Our Children in 1999, the two musicians received an Arts Council grant to press 500 CDs which they had to give away for free, due to sample clearance issues.
In 2001, English electronic group I Monster had a UK chart hit with "Daydream in Blue", a remix of the Günter Kallmann Choir's version of the song; the track peaked at #20 in the UK Singles Chart. [6] The song has also been covered live by the Beta Band as part of their song "Squares".
The I Monster version of "Daydream in Blue" was used as theme music for the 2002 French action movie Steal and appeared in a television commercial for the Ford Focus ST in 2005. The song was also used in the 2016 episode " eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc " in season 2 of Mr. Robot , and the 2022 episode " Half Loop " in season 1 of Severence .
A further remixed version of I Monster's work is used in the 2016 episode "eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc" in Season 2 of the series Mr. Robot, which is often mistaken for the Lupe Fiasco version. The music that appears in the show uses parts that only appear in the 1998 song, and no vocals or changes from the Fiasco version are present. [9]
The verses of "Daydream" use a I–VI m7 –ii–V chord progression and the refrain uses IV–i °7 –I–VI m7. [12] The musicologist Walter Everett writes that because the song's verses always end with half cadences , it means the song never "[achieves] a full-cadence closure" but instead fades out while still feeling incomplete. [ 13 ]
Rita Moss – Daydream 7-inch EP (Rozell) (1959) Billy Strayhorn – The Peaceful Side (1961) [3] Thad Jones – The Danish Radio Big Band and Eclipse (1978) [4] Sarah Vaughan – The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (1979) Betty Carter – Feed the Fire (1993) June Christy – The Misty Miss Christy (1956), Day Dreams (1995)
The song was a double-A side with a cover version of Harry Nilsson's "The Puppy Song". [2] The single was the 10th best selling single in the UK in 1973. [3] The song also appears on David Cassidy's 1973 UK No.1 album Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes. [2] Cilla Black recorded a version of this song in 1974.
The single version omits the jazzy daydream-like music heard at the beginning and the ending of the track on the album, because the vocals sounded too psychedelic for most radio airplay. It had been rumored the song was about Temptations' singer Dennis Edwards, which was confirmed by Franklin in 1999 on The Oprah Winfrey Show. [4]