You Started My Dreaming - Tommy Edwards

Lost In The Desert Of Love

You Started My Dreaming

Tommy Edwards
Orchestra Conducted by Leroy Holmes
Cover Photograph by Larry Gordon Studios
MGM Records E3805
A Division of Lowes Incorporated
1960

From the back cover: A lonely night in some out-of-the-way locale... a dark, dank site that some inordinate yearning prompts him to seek out... a pensive, secretive mood of his desires to be with that someone who has long gone out of his physical life... an unresolved melancholia from his unfulfilled yearning, yet, with the still burning hope of finding that lost love that started him dreaming; that is the dilemma of Tommy Edwards in embarking on this recorded peregrination. Will he find what he is looking for, this modern-day Ulysses, on his twelve-tracked-trek into his very personal Odyssey? Ulysses took ten years to seek home and hearth – Tommy Edwards finds it in a much shorter span of time in this album of beautiful ballads.

Stars twice-fell on Tommy through the medium of one song. After a brief span as a successful tunesmith with several hit songs to his credit, recorded by other artists, Tommy entered into a short period of financial fallow, forcing him to personally record a demonstration platter to help sell a new tune of his to the music moguls along Tin Pan Alley. Rather than hire a "professional" singer as had been his fashion, Tommy thriftily cut his own "demo" and made the rounds. One of his first "stops" was at MGM Records when he went in as a songwriter and waled out with a recording contract as a singer – oh yes, MGM liked the song "All Over Again" enough to include it on Tommy's first recording session – financial famine accidentally caused a "new sound" to be discovered... the voice of Tommy Edwards. In rapid succession hit after hit was recorded by Tommy on MGM Records. One of these was a vocal rendition of a little known melody written, surprisingly enough, by a former Vice-President of the United States – "Melody In A" written by Charles Dawes, Vice-President during the Coolidge administration – better known to Tommy Edwards' fans as "It's All In The Game." This was his first million seller; more such "The Morningside Of The Mountain" and "You Win Again" followed soon afterwards. At this point you may ask, "How could stars twice fall on Tommy, didn't he remain on top?" Well, no, not exactly. Relative inactivity brought on by the ROCK 'N ROLL craze forced fine singers like Tommy Edwards to be less in demand. However, a gradual merging of "the big beat" with the more traditional, less ephemeral music patterns eventually occurred, brining back "good" voices and Tommy was re-discovered. Therefore, Tommy Edwards became twice-blessed when he recorded a rhythmical remake of his earliest hit "It's All In The Game." Tommy struck gold twice in the same lode; if anything profound should be said on this matter, one can safely state that Tommy Edwards has now become a permanent star; a shinning star in a galaxy of the entertainment greats of our time. Here again is a recored testimonial of the magic combination of the talent and emotion appeal of Tommy Edwards in, You Started Me Dreaming.

From Billboard - February 22, 1960: Tommy Edwards' soft-voiced delivery is applied to a group of sentimental ballads with much of the effectiveness that made a hit of "It's All In The Game," his big single. The orchestral backing again is effective with a light triplet beat. Contents include "You're A Sweetheart," "Always" and "Stars Fell On Alabama." Adults as well as teens are potential buyers.

Indian Summer
Always
Stars Fell On Alabama
I'm Building Castles Again
Lost In The Desert Of Love
You're A Heavenly Thing
Navajo
(It Will Have To Do) Until The Real Things Come Along
You're A Sweetheart
You Started Me Dreaming
My Love Is A Sparrow
All Over Again