- Writer: Gary Wright
- Producer: Gary Wright
- Recorded: Early 1975 at Sound Labs, Inc. in Los Angeles
- Released: Summer 1975
- Players:
Gary Wright — vocals, keyboards
David Foster — keyboards
Bobby Lyle — keyboards
Jim Keltner — drums - Album: The Dream Weaver (Warner Bros., 1975)
- Also On: Dream Weaver: The Best Of Gary Wright (Rhino, 1999)
- Before launching a solo career, Gary Wright was a member of the band Spooky Tooth and had been in the Broadway play Fanny.
- At age seven, Wright appeared in the Captain Video TV series.
- The title track of his second solo album, “Dream Weaver” peaked at Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100.
- The Dream Weaver album cover boasted, “This is an album of keyboard music, with the exception of drums and vocals.”
- There’s also some guitar on the album, which was played on a few songs by Ronnie Montrose.
- Among the keyboardists contributing to Dream Weaver was David Foster, who went on to become one of pop’s most successful producers.
- The Dream Weaver album peaked at Number Seven on the Billboard 200 and sold more than two million copies.
FAST FORWARD:
- Though he never repeated Dream Weaver’s success, Wright has continued to record, though he doesn’t tour often.
- Among his projects has been composing an instrumental score for part of the 1983 film Staying Alive, which was the follow-up to Saturday Night Fever.
- His most recent release is the album Human Love, which came out in 1999 through his official thedreamweaver.com website.
- “Dream Weaver” was featured prominently in the film Wayne’s World.
- Wright reunited with some former bandmates for a couple of Spooky Tooth shows in June 2004.