Sweet Dream (Jethro Tull Song)

"Sweet Dream" is a song recorded by the English progressive rock band Jethro Tull. The song is a non-album single originally recorded during the sessions of their sophomore album Stand Up, but appeared as a bonus track with several other non-album songs on remastered versions of that album. The song appears on many of their compilation albums.

Composition

The song is in the key of E minor

Music Video

In 1981, a music video was made for the Slipstream tour. Ian Anderson is dressed up like a vampire and it shows clips from old Horror Films.

Charts

The song made number 7 in the UK.

Personnel

References

Stand Up (Jethro Tull album)

Stand Up is the second album by Jethro Tull released in 1969; it quickly went to number 1 in the UK charts while a single, "Sweet Dream", rose to number 5. Before Stand Up, the band's original guitarist Mick Abrahams resigned because of musical differences with Ian Anderson; Abrahams wanted to stay with the blues-rock sound of This Was, while Anderson wished to add other musical influences such as folk rock. The result was an eclectic album with various styles appearing in its songs, yet an album which remained broadly in the blues-rock mould, which would be the last such album from Jethro Tull.

Stand Up represents the first album project on which Anderson was in full control of the music and lyrics. It also marks the first appearance of guitarist Martin Barre, who appeared on every Jethro Tull album from this point on.

Production

The band began recording the album on 17 April 1969, starting with "A New Day Yesterday", "Back to the Family", "Fat Man", "Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square" (referring to Anderson's schoolmate Jeffrey Hammond), "Nothing Is Easy", and "Bourée". Most of the songs were recorded at Morgan Studios in North London, but "Bourée" was recorded at Olympic Studios in South London because Morgan Studios was already booked for 24 April. The general routine was that the band would arrive at the studio at 9 am to work on one or two songs which would be finished by 4 or 5 pm. Recording engineer Andy Johns tried some new techniques, for instance on "A New Day Yesterday" he achieved a swirling, stereo-shifting guitar effect by swinging an expensive Neumann U67 microphone on its cable in wide circles around the studio. The song "Bourée" proved the most difficult session, with Anderson and the band unsatisfied with any of the takes they recorded. The final version was compiled later from several takes, with more touches added by Anderson.