Dan Hartman wrote and recorded "I Can Dream About You" for the "Streets of Fire" soundtrack in 1984. However, Hartman's version only appeared on the soundtrack CD.
The video that got heavy airplay that summer featured the Sorels, a group created for the movie, consisting of actors Stoney Jackson, Mykelti Williamson, Grand Bush, & Robert Townsend, the latter of whom would make a musical himself, "The Five Heartbeats", a few years later. For years, many of us assumed Jackson was miming Hartman's vocals, but he's not.
Studio musician Winston Ford's voice is coming out of Jackson's mouth in the video:
As we've shared previously, the Sorels would later turn up in Hartman's video for "We Are The Young", his follow-up single.
Hartman made his own music video, with Sorels footage appearing on a TV screen atop a jukebox.
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