55 Years Ago Today In Music
The Dream Weavers, somewhat of a novelty act in its day in the fact that it was one of the first mixed sex groups of to score in the top five, let alone score a number one. A Vocal group comprised of two guys and one girl, sang around Miami in the mid fifties.
Its Almost Tomorrow, lyrics written Wade Buff and the music and melodies by Gene Adkinson, both memebers of the group, described the song as “a wedding song with a difference as the singer is losing his girl to another man…….”
The duo,who later recruited Sally Sanborn, Mary Carr and Mary Rude to name a few to fill in for the female parts, managed to impress Milt Gabler at US Decca. Gabler was the man who had the foresight to sign Bill Haley and was equally quick to spot the petential of ‘It’s Almost Tomorrow’. The song went to number seven on the US charts and earned the Dream Weavers a gold record. Their only other US hit was with ‘A Little Love Can Go A Long way’ from the the popular TV play Joey the year after. After another short successful stint the duo had hits with ‘Into The Night’ and ‘Give Us This Day’, before they quickly disbanded. The world never really saw a Dream Weavers record/album because they only had eight professional recordings.
The Dream Weavers did have more UK success though. They eventually gained that elusive number one for the week beginning 16th March 1956. After re-releasing their famed ‘Its Almost Tomorrow’, this time with a guest singer in the form of David Whitfield, who earlier that year appeared on the charity single ‘All Star Hit Parade’. The new line-up seemed to be doing the trick, finally with the timings re-arranged with interventions by Tony Hatch it was a job well done. Hatch recollects “The Dream Weaver originally did it in a 3/4 timing and we changed it to a 4/4 with a more country feel”.