Crown Heights Affair Dreaming A Dream Vocal on Album?

**Disco Funk** · March 27th, 2006, 07:36 PM

I was wondering if the vocal version of Dreaming A Dream, which is on the 45, is also on the LP? I listened to sound samples of the Unidisc CD on allmusic, but it sounds like all of the mixes on that CD reissue of the album were the instrumental mix.

On a side note, I recently got my hands on the RCA 1974 album. Totally different from the Delite era stuff. The sound more like the Nite Liters (another RCA group), with more funk oriented jams than pure disco beats.

Disco Funk

**paul** · March 28th, 2006, 12:09 AM

Disco Funk, I absolutely love this song. The vocal which is my favorite version, is the way I first heard it 30 years ago. Anyway here's a link to the cd I have with the vocal version. It's 4 minutes 37 seconds long.

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**QUINNY** · March 28th, 2006, 03:25 AM

Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.
I for one can't stand the vocal version. To me, it makes them sound like a third rate cabaret band and incredibly dated (even for 1974/5).

**DISCODISK** · March 28th, 2006, 11:26 AM

Originally Written by Disco Funk

I was wondering if the vocal version of Dreaming A Dream, which is on the 45, is also on the LP? I listened to sound samples of the Unidisc CD on allmusic, but it sounds like all of the mixes on that CD reissue of the album were the instrumental mix.

On a side note, I recently got my hands on the RCA 1974 album. Totally different from the Delite era stuff. The sound more like the Nite Liters (another RCA group), with more funk oriented jams than pure disco beats.

Disco Funk

yes discofunk it was on the album,you did well to find the album especially if you found an original,rca did a limited repress in 75 those are quite rare too,to tell which you have the re-press states on back cover previously issued on r.c.a bla bla bla.
where i clubbed 'streaking was a big record and sex trip got lots of plays too,i spent some time with the guys and mentioned sex trip and they were jumping up and down that anyone here knew that song they said it was a real favourite of theirs, streaking was a single too though slightly shorter it dosnt come back after the fade, shame sex trip wasnt a single the only other single from that album was super rod

**remicks** · March 28th, 2006, 12:55 PM

*****

Crown Heights Affair 8) NYC disco !!

And another aside while we've got this listening link available :
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Check out DANCIN' from 1977.

Wait !! What ??
Hold up here ! ... ain't that the original discoman ???

Watcha talkin about remicks ??
.................................................. ...I'm talkin' about SHAFT !! :lol: :lol:

*****

well ....we can dig it :D

**paul** · March 28th, 2006, 01:18 PM

Thank you Bernie

Quinny, Quinny. Why do I get the feeling you were just as ornery 30 years ago :lol:

**DISCODISK** · March 28th, 2006, 01:43 PM

Originally Written by paul

Quinny, Quinny. Why do I get the feeling you were just as ornery 30 years ago :lol:

ORNERY -never heard that before so i just checked it out
ORBERY-Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous..... :lol:

**paul** · March 28th, 2006, 02:18 PM

Fits Mr Quinny to a tee don't chya think DD :lol:

**Disco Funk** · March 28th, 2006, 06:55 PM

I have to agree with Quinny! The vocal version is quite bland. I just like it because its different, and I've heard the instrumental mix to death, by itself or mixed with Dancin'. They did a much better job with vocals on later albums. They phoned in the performance on this one, but its still worth checking out because it doesn't get played like the instrumental.

Disco Funk

**paul** · March 29th, 2006, 12:32 AM

OK, so I'm the wierd one...again :o

**QUINNY** · March 29th, 2006, 01:43 AM

Originally Written by paul

Thank you Bernie

Quinny, Quinny. Why do I get the feeling you were just as ornery 30 years ago :lol:

I had an upbringing where I was surrounded by records and where bowing down to the status quo didn't count for much (in either music or real life). Guess that made me question perceived wisdom and a rebel at heart, but.......mean spirited, cantankerous, disagreeable........NEVER!!!! Don'cha know I'm a sweet soul. :o

Just realise that when it comes to music, I'm able to critique to a different level.....that's all.

:lol:

**paul** · March 29th, 2006, 02:04 PM

Originally Written by QUINNY

Guess that made me question perceived wisdom and a rebel at heart, but.......mean spirited, cantankerous, disagreeable........NEVER!!!! Don'cha know I'm a sweet soul. :o

Well, I can definitely relate to that Quinny 8)

**Videoskooter** · March 31st, 2006, 03:58 PM

Originally Written by paul

Well, I can definitely relate to that Quinny 8)

Paul, don't listen to his sweet voice, as he speaks in daggers :o

**qdearl** · April 3rd, 2006, 05:52 PM

Originally Written by DISCODISK

yes discofunk it was on the album,you did well to find the album especially if you found an original,rca did a limited repress in 75 those are quite rare too,to tell which you have the re-press states on back cover previously issued on r.c.a bla bla bla.

Question for you DD, I Have 2 different LP's with Dreamin' a Dream, that was released in 1975, neither states that it's a re-press, 1 is entitled " Dreaming a Dream" the other one is entitled "Foxy Lady" the front and back cover art is different, but the only difference in tracks is, on the LP called Dreaming a Dream, track 2, side one is called "Foxy" (4:09) while on the LP called Foxy Lady it's the title cut and comes in at (3:30) other than that the tracks are identical :o
What's the Deal with that? :-?

**KoolChris** · October 22nd, 2007, 09:32 AM

Originally Written by qdearl

I Have 2 different LP's with Dreamin' a Dream,..., neither states that it's a re-press, 1 is entitled " Dreaming a Dream" the other one is entitled "Foxy Lady" the front and back cover art is different, but the only difference in tracks is, on Dreaming a Dream, track 2, side one is called "Foxy" (4:09) while on the LP called Foxy Lady it's the title cut and comes in at (3:30) other than that the tracks are identical :o
What's the Deal with that? :-?

I've always wondered that myself.
I first thought "Dreaming a Dream" might have been released later because the "Foxy Lady" LP wasn't selling too good, and the "Dreaming a Dream" single was becoming a club hit. That might have prompted people having enjoyed the single to go ahead and buy the LP, easily recognizable because it now sported the same name...

But my copy of "Dreaming a Dream" has a cover of the ancient type (brownish cardboard folded together, then paper with artwork glued on the front, with a square backside (often black & white) glued on the back, holding the whole thing together). This version is the only one I've seen, and is much more scarce than "Foxy Lady".
"Foxy Lady", on the other hand, I've only seen put together with the current, more recent, and now common technique of directly printing the cover with both sides, folding it and gluing it together. I would thus assume "Foxy Lady" came second, since it appears to be the only version to have been manufactured into the '80s...

The copyright dates aren't necessarily significant, because even if one of the LPs was released later, the material was still copyrighted in 1975.

**efunk_adelic** · October 24th, 2007, 03:48 AM

I like both actually. I do like to change it up a bit from time to time. Glad that I found the original US pressing on 7".

**HKILP7M8** · August 27th, 2009, 12:43 AM

I can't believe you guys think that the vocal version of Dreaming a Dream is bland, this is my favorite song of all time. When I first heard the song I thought it was Chicago doing a Disco song. The song was actually their biggest hit, charting the highest on the charts. One of you guys said that their vocals got better in later years, I disagree, Dreaming a Dream vocal was their best work, I love all the others as I love CHA(being a New Yorker and growing up in the whole Disco world)I was always hoping that they would make another song like Dreaming a Dream but they never did. I ran into the band in later years and asked why they never attempted a song like that, they told me it would not be accepted at that time, this must have been around 1983 or so.

Dreaming a Dream the album was their first album on Delite, Foxy Lady which is pretty much the same album came out later, probably early in 76, it had the remix of Foxy Lady. I am a CHA fanatic, followed them all through 75 to 81.

**mrbmarco** · September 2nd, 2009, 03:35 PM

Some like the vocal, but it was the more dynamic "disco version" B side, 3:45 minute instrumental, that was played at the clubs. Documentation of this can be found on page 92 of Vince Aletti's Disco File book.