Peak
4
Weeks
18
Score
3,610
Chart Year
1958
Scores & Rankings
Chart Performance
Peak Position4
Peak DateAug 25, 1958
Weeks at Peak3
Weeks Charted18
Weeks in Top 4015
Weeks in Top 108
Weeks at #20
Weeks at #10
Scoring
Summary Calc1,717
Weekly Calc1,893
Total Score3,610
Rankings
Year Ranking#27
Decade Ranking#172
Billboard Year#30
Top 5000#2,555
Details
- Album
- Single
- Label
- Ace Records
- Genre
- Dance-pop
- Composer(s)
- Jimmy Clanton;Cosimo Matassa
- Entered Chart
- Jul 14, 1958
- Peak Date
- Aug 25, 1958
- Released
- July 1958
- Recorded
- 1958
- Catalog #
- Ace 546
- B-Side
- You Aim To Please
Music Video
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Notes
"Just a Dream" is a 1958 single by Jimmy Clanton and His Rockets released on the Ace Records label. The actual record-label states that it was written by Clanton and Cosimo Matassa (Matassa was Clanton's manager), but other sources state that Clanton was the sole composer. The single went to number one on the R&B Best Sellers lists for one week and peaked at number four on the Hot 100. Ruby Winters covered the song in 1969 and it peaked at #40 on US R&B charts.
Just a dream, just a dream All our plans and our all schemes How could I think you'd be mine The lies I'd tell myself each time I know that we could never last We just can't seem to in the past Just a dream I dream in vain With you I'd only live in pain Your picture is always with me I can still hear that same mournful song And now I sit here crying Please leave me alone Why, why do I love you How can I live in misery I know that I won't forget you But now I know it's too late for me
Chart History (18 weeks)
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jul 14, 1958 | 51 | 75 |
| 2 | Jul 21, 1958 | 22 | 104 |
| 3 | Jul 28, 1958 | 25 | 101 |
| 4 | Aug 4, 1958 | 12 | 114 |
| 5 | Aug 11, 1958 | 9 | 117 |
| 6 | Aug 18, 1958 | 5 | 121 |
| 7 | Aug 25, 1958 | 4 | 122 |
| 8 | Sep 1, 1958 | 4 | 122 |
| 9 | Sep 8, 1958 | 4 | 122 |
| 10 | Sep 15, 1958 | 5 | 121 |
| 11 | Sep 22, 1958 | 6 | 120 |
| 12 | Sep 29, 1958 | 9 | 117 |
| 13 | Oct 6, 1958 | 12 | 114 |
| 14 | Oct 13, 1958 | 14 | 112 |
| 15 | Oct 20, 1958 | 19 | 107 |
| 16 | Oct 27, 1958 | 29 | 97 |
| 17 | Nov 3, 1958 | 59 | 67 |
| 18 | Nov 10, 1958 | 86 | 40 |