Perfect music for a quiet evening, snowy day, middle of the night insomnia,… Read Full Bio ↴Perfect music for a quiet evening, snowy day, middle of the night insomnia, romantic evening, rainy day - really intimate music for the heart and soul. Reminds me of the soft music Mia Farrow began to listen to as "Rosemary" before the witches intruded on her quiet time in "Rosemary's Baby". Thank goodness we had the privilege of living in the lifetime of Henry Mancini. Imagine the music they enjoy in the heavens now!

Dreamsville
Henry Mancini Lyrics

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I'm in Dreamsville, holding you
I'm dreaming you, just we two alone
In love in Dreamsville, time is new
We're here to love and we do

We can see the rest of the world
Below us from our pink cloud
There's no boundary to this magic light

As we go exploring hand in hand
In dreamy Dreamsville

Far away and here we love
Here we stay

Overall Meaning

The song Dreamsville by Henry Mancini is a romantic ballad which speaks about a dreamland where two people are lost in love. The song speaks about the beauty of love and how it can transport two people to a magical world, a world without boundaries, and where time ceases to exist. The lyrics highlight the essence of being in love and how it can create a sense of belonging, safe haven, and a deep connection between two people.

The lyrics paint a picture of a couple in a romantic setting, where they are holding hands, dreaming together, and exploring the wonders of the world around them. The song is all about being lost in the magic of love and how it can take you to a place where there is no stress, anxiety or fear. In Dreamsville, everything is beautiful, peaceful and perfect, and they are the only two people in the world.

In summary, the song Dreamsville by Henry Mancini is an ode to love, where two people get lost in a world of magic and beauty. It speaks about the power of love to create a world where time ceases to exist, boundaries fades away and two people can find true happiness and joy together.

Line by Line Meaning

I'm in Dreamsville, holding you
I'm lost in a dream world, surrounded only by you

I'm dreaming you, just we two alone
I'm imagining a romantic dream where we're the only ones

In love in Dreamsville, time is new
Our love in this dream world feels fresh and exciting

We're here to love and we do
Our purpose in Dreamsville is to love each other and we succeed

We can see the rest of the world
From our dream world, we have a view of the rest of reality

Below us from our pink cloud
We're observing the world below us from a place of comfort and happiness

There's no boundary to this magic light
We feel surrounded by an otherworldly, limitless glow

As we go exploring hand in hand
Together, we adventure through the dream world, exploring the unknown

In dreamy Dreamsville
We're lost in this magical dream world of love and happiness

Far away and here we love
Even though we're far from reality, we still feel an intense love

Here we stay
We'll continue to revel in our dream world of love and endless possibility

Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Henry N Mancini, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans

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Comments from YouTube:

@jeffcaylor7629

9y↑10

Great memories from a kid of the 60's.

@JerriBerriBoBerri

6y↑5

Inimitable! Will miss you every day but so grateful I have your albums, YouTube and my forever memories of falling in love with your music. He's know the scamp mischievous practical joker you were and who could forget the Peter Gunn show, Mr lucky and your music. Let's "Two For The Road," Hank.

@cynthiahawkins2389

6y↑32

Not only was "Hank" Mancini a wonderful musical artist, he was also a huge, generous philanthropist - he and his wife Ginny helped many a performer, out on the coast, stranded, and hard up. He was something else...I remember him with great affection, and not just for his music!!

@dianalee3059

Indeed. Ginny founded The Society of Singers the helpful group you referred to.

@amtrakatsfnyc

8y↑181

Here I am, some 52 years after hearing this track for the first time, still listening and marveling at the superb composition and arrangement from the master himself - Henry Mancini. This music describes an era of American culture when musical beauty was defined in a very different way. Again, thank you for posting and sharing.

@amtrakatsfnyc

8y↑12

Chip, Every time I listen to this track, I can remember watching Peter Gunn on Monday evenings at 9 P.M. [on NBC] and hearing this composition of beauty being played as background music.

@steveember8972

7y↑5

Well - and I must say, diplomatically - put re: American culture. Sublime Mancini. Now, I'm going over to listen to Sue Raney's vocal with Mancini conducting!

@kathyneely3681

And this one by John Williams and Alan and Marilyn Bergman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gylr2rDmA1Q

@amtrakatsfnyc

6y↑2

Yes Kathy, Make Me Rainbows is clearly in this class of music that is filled with beauty, charm, and ease. I just listened to your link. Thank you for sharing.

@marinanewby9009

5y↑1

Absolute agreement!!

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@jerry3136

10y↑85

Cloudy rainy Friday evening, nice warm house with this music from long ago still sounding so great after all this time. It brings a smile to this older guy who remembers the days when this and a much slower pace of life was prevalent Mr Mancini, you were a genius who let us all share your wonderful talent, and to this we say, thank you..

@customkey

9y↑4

Well said, my friend.

@amtrakatsfnyc

9y↑5

+jerry n Jerry, Your thoughts of how music represents our past have been replicated in my mind for several years. This composition and recording is a treasure of the past that will never be replicated.

@amaraland1

And you and me slow dancing❤

@jamesgatto8441

10y↑121

Reminds me of my dad laying on the couch after dinner relaxing in the early sixties. I too miss my dad. Brings back a much simpler time in this confusing,mixed up world. Thanks for posting something worth listening to.

@jerry3136

10y↑16

James, my younger brother and I were raised by our father. He played piano with a small quartet, practiced in our small home, we grew up with this music, how lucky our father taught us how to appreciate this beautiful music, and as yours, missed every day, taught us so many values that we live today.

@amtrakatsfnyc

7y↑3

James, Your ideas mirror my thoughts about the condition of our present world and the lack of this type of music that is present in this performance.

@jerry3136

6y↑7

Still here James, 3 years later still enjoying the music my younger brother and myself were so lucky to have growing up in the 60s with our father. We had no cell phones, fancy TV's, one nice ford convertible, and each other. We always sat at a small table together in our small kitchen for dinner, and our large radio in the living room with its beautiful ivory buttons and lighted yellow dial had this music playing all the time, magic.

@fingers1958

5y↑3

I had the same sensation listening to this, James! Made me miss my father, also. Such sublime music!

@MikePulcinellaVideo

5y↑3

The early 60s a simpler time?? Yes, for us children because we were children. But not for our parents. The Cuban missile crisis almost ended the world. Civil rights riots, the Vietnam War...and on and on. We were insulated from all of that as young people, but don't let nostalgia give you the false impression that things were easy then. They were not.

Having said that, this is a fantastic composition that really evokes a feeling of those times.

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@Quinngermin

6y↑15

8 years ago I joined the middle school jazz band and an entire magical world was opened for me. Pieces like this remind me how truly precious it was ... friends, loved ones, thanks Mrs Clanin.

@jerry3136

10y↑46

This music magically takes me back to my high school days in the 60's, my father still alive and playing piano with his friends in our small home. We did not have much, my brother and my father, but we were rich.

@customkey

9y↑2

jerry n Thank you for the magical words, my friend.

@HenryMartinez08

jerry n Hear, hear!

@edwardmallon8679

Henry Martinez
A warm and loving tribute. I only hope they’ll feel the same about me

@steviel6345

10y↑24

Smooth jazz...and strings. Unbeatable.

@davidmaslow399

4y↑1

I don't hear any strings. Horns and brass and rythmn section plus guitar, but NO strings!

@tboneholt

3y↑3

MAN those French horns!

@MrHARRYGOODNIGHT

3y↑1

No strings. French horn and trombones.

@alexforest1

9y↑25

I love the warm and exciting music of Henry Mancini . Thank God he left us with a variety of music to cherish.

@BillSU77

8y↑46

Mancini was so creative. His melodies are for anything he described incredible. Another musical genius along with Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams. his music will live on forever.

@nonenoneonenonenone

Mancini was much more talented than Williams! No comparison.

@josephvu9913

none Good to know that Williams was Mancini’s Pianist during the mid 50s and Early 60s. And a lot of Williams’s earlier Film Works was influenced by Mancini.

@thestoryplease

12y↑4

Can hardly believe this was the music of a TV show when it was really the sound of a generation moving from the big bold brassy 1940's to a heartfelt, introspective, artful, sophisticated 50's undercurrent surfacing in the 1960's. A masterpiece of music from one side ready to join along with Miles' "Round about Midnight" on the other side. Love it

@mortyfromc

10y↑25

This is one of the few songs that can just ease away the cares of the day and let you slip off to dreamsville. I miss Henry Mancini and his music.

@sandiegotrojandawg

7y↑3

Mancini's lush orchestration literally transports you to some distant cloud, kicked back and relaxing while floating on surreal winds of daydreams and imagination...only Mancini can do this to me -- and I love it.

@MrPalkov

8y↑13

I'm 43 and this is the first time I've heard this fantastic music. Makes me think
of the world gone by but still bearing a lot of relevance to today's reality, at least the reality the we wish we were in.

@myriambegasse9580

I love Mancini and guess who made me know him? another legend : julie andrews !!! I m french and 17 by the way !!!

@Survivor2002

10y↑46

One of the first 'grown-up' soundtracks I ever fell in love with (thanks, Dad), and the fact that a legendary composer is featured here on keys, (a certain "Johnny" Williams) makes it that much sweeter.

@247hdjazz

10y

***** Why NOT? It SURE IS, btw!

@tonymonroy64

10y↑1

that right I forgot that soundtrack composser of star wars, indiana jones,..played on some tracks . Thanks for reminding us.

@fastmail55

10y↑3

THE John Williams?! Now how cool is that!

@kurtrachwitz2021

Try the soundtrack score to the old tv series M Squad. Williams composed it! Favorite track: Lonely Beat,

@franflau

Mancini's musicians were simply the best! His arrangement book with 33 1/3rpm discs is worth a university's graduation.

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@daleschneider7689

9y↑42

Mancini aproppriately named this because it is so dreamy.Never knew thatJohn Williams did the piano solo on this, always thought it was Mancini. RIP Hank you are missed.

@zosxavius

9y↑20

One of my favorite mancini tracks. This whole soundtrack is pure gold!

@thereseblaine626

Zos Xavius, Me 2 personally. -David S. Blain

@lynettemiller7912

5y↑1

Absolutely! I'd been in love with this soundtrack before I watched even one episode of the show! Then to discover there were even more cool tunes when I did finally see it: FABULOUS!

@johnwinter3663

Indeed. Beautiful gorgeous tones and musicality. Makes one revile
at the debasement of music by Hip - Hop. Thank You,
Henry Mancini for enabling us to reach back and have the human ears
taste of beauty and authentic genius. Depth - Tonal and Spiritual Perfection. I, John Winter - Who humbly raised 7 children with careful
ears for creative richness found in the works of Mancini and so many
many Jazz Masters - Black or White, Hispanic or Asian - Man or Woman of so many wonderful nations joined and emboldened by
their freshness, distinctions, differences and Orginality Hip - Hop take a damn seat, You are an effront to the human ear and any sensibility.
You are a Migraine !! Fight Hate. Fight the proliferation of Ignorance. Fight " Hip - Shit " Mancini - Miles, Bird, Jobim, Ella, Santana - Bravo

@Prof.ArnonPalty

9y↑3

This beautiful composition brings back so many memories...I remember studing the Mancini score in and out... From his "Sound and Scores" book. Incredible!

@wntoply6

13y↑3

my brother bought this album when we were kids. he was more musically hep than me, so i listened intently. it was my first introduction to that form of modern jazz, & of course henry mancini...i was immediately mesmerized! from that point on, i was hooked on jazz. to this day, no other form of music has taken it's place. even when rock came along at about the same time, & everyone flipped out over it, i didn't. jazz is my love with all it's colors, moods senses & vibes, it's my pure heaven!

@ruthhellkamp926

He captured the ambiance of being deeply in love with this tune......just wonderful! I met him personally as he walked into my gig one night . I played piano for decades at a high end hotel and he and an entourage walked in for dinner after a big outdoor concert here in Upstate NY> What a wonderful memorable night...as we really had a great connection and talked "shop" . He even asked me to play a few of my own compositions...and when he got back to LA.....he sent a huge anthology of all his work to me..with a sweet letter inside.

@8woldy8

8y↑3

What an ear and what an arranger Mancini was. His music is truly in a class by itself.

@hearagain4035

7y↑5

Denny Farrell Here. Late Night Chicago Radio Jazz ShowDreamsville Is one of those melodies that will live forever.

@robertperry3807

10y↑10

Another of my favorite Mancini love songs. You've got to hear Sarah Vaughn do this one.

@jerry3136

11y↑2

Close your eyes, its back to the 60's, much slower paced time, malls not open 24/7, no cell phones, people just a lot more friendly, and smile, this music is magic.

@BillSU77

8y↑16

Dreamsville - wish I was there right now - Mancini so smooth, a genius.

@boyan.guitar

10y↑37

Mancini was such a class act.

@agentmorgan_ny

10y↑20

Yes from the Peter Gunn soundtrack ~ great album start to finish.

@dattieo

7y↑9

Mancini was one of those special composers who makes you glad he came along before you were born.

@claudiopontes5191

9y↑5

i was twenty years old when i heard for the first time this beautiful song! i haven't changed i still love it so.

@GutpileCharlie

13y↑1

I bought the vinyl back in the 50's. Damn! It doesn't get any better than this! Thank you Henry!

@b6schilke996

5y↑3

Woke this morning with this in my head.

@JayySmoov

6y↑7

I remember playing this in my small jazz group in high school. It Introduced me into a whole new era of music and composition. Beautiful piece and time.

@SuperMike1955

7y↑16

I love youtube for having these songs available

@231143able1

8y↑5

The beautiful melodies from the 50s and 60s. Henry Mancini was a real great musician and composed a lot of hits of those years.

@anaga

7y↑4

Henry Mancini. Creo que no habrá nadie como él con esa sensibilidad y acierto para todas las bandas sonoras que componía. Tengo toda su discografía y no me canso de escucharla

@wllpapr

13y↑4

This is so soothing and relaxing.....dreaming in Dreamsville! Missing the likes of Henry Mancini....

@lorenzshawl8230

Simply Divine love this track 🎹🎹🎹❤️❤️❤️

@JanRaz1955

12y↑1

This is so beautiful. Takes me back to a simpler time in the early 60's with my parents listening to this and dancing. Life was so much slower and beautiful. Miss you Dad

@dianalee3059

2y↑1

I’m being married in April and I’ve chosen this lovely piece for my wedding dance. I’m retired from a wonderful 50 year career as a studio singer where it was my joy to work with Henry Mancini and his lovely singing wife Ginny. Better, more down to earth people you would never meet. RIP my friends, I truly miss you ❤️❤️

@tompowers9218

8y↑20

This wonderful music really does put me into Dreamsville.

@oswaldomesias6569

6y↑3

No words are needed.

@Grandtrunk

6y↑6

Peter Gunn. Greatest album ever recorded. Dreamsville is like the finest and rarest of cogniacs poured slowly into the glass then SLOWLY consumed

@alanakemann5666

5y↑3

So smooth. So Dreamsville.

@kentcummings2433

3y↑1

I wrote a letter to Henry Mancini when I was 12 years old telling him that I loved his music. He wrote back a note scribbled in magic market, signed, “Hank.” What a thrill!

@brucerobbins6227

10y↑15

To me, Hank's most beautiful melody without a doubt.

@JerriBerriBoBerri

7y↑8

I miss you so very much Henry Mancini.

@johnwoods6436

6y↑2

Mancini, was classic. His music was always so mellow and smooth. Incomparable "beauty." 😎

@stephaniepersin4145

10y↑2

Another gem.

@oldthudman

5y↑2

Loved Mancini.......Beautiful

@leopoldotroconis8500

6y↑5

HENRY MANCINI. "QUE GRANDE FUISTE"...Desde Caracas, Venezuela.

@donpaulweatherpluspaul2670

6y↑7

I love knowing the great composers who also did their own brilliant orchestrations, to keep some kind of emotional integrity; composers like Mancini and LeGrand.

@anaga

7y↑2

I discovered Mancini when I was a teenager and now I am 48. All this time I have been discovering more and more themes of this music genius and I would like to be contemporary of him, I would search how to meet him. I love his music and I love him

@MrLuvOldies

8y↑7

Sooo Soft,Smooth,and Dreamy.Mmmmmmmm

@amtrakatsfnyc

11y↑1

This is exactly what I do each time I listen to this performance. You are so correct about the quality of life in the early 60's.

@linvalazza570

I've been listening to Dreamsville for 65 years and never get tired of listening to it.

@debdessaso

8y↑7

Just heard this for the first time yesterday. Magnificent!

@dawson2504

10y↑11

Mancini truly made some wonderful music. I have the LP this is from and rediscovered this track from the Henry Mancini station on Pandora. Bliss!!!

@lorenzshawl8230

Simply heavenly Love watching the Peter Gunn series and listening to all the great music and Edie Hart (Lola Albright) singing all the great compositions of Henry Mancini❤️❤️❤️🎹🎹🎹

@DB5tothehive

6y↑6

Just now heard this for the first time while walking in the street. I wish someone else out there could compose music like this..

@claudiopontes5191

9y↑14

oh! boy what memories this song brings to me.

@GONBEIFUKUDA

13y↑1

This is one of the best musics that I love. It is is so elegant and sweet .

@BillSU77

8y↑2

theme from Mr. lucky so smooth and beautiful. Mancini the musical genius.

@hootinouts

13y

One night back in 1978 I was painting a scene on canvas of fishing boats docked along a creek under a full moon. It is very dreamy scene indeed. When I painted I always listened to my favorite radio station in Philadelphia which was WDVR out of Wilmington DE. While I was working on this painting "Dreamsville" was playing and even to this day every time I look at my painting "Dreamsville" pops into my head.

@thehalla

6y↑9

Donald Fagen mentioned about this song in his autobiography. I came to understand how Henry’s music had been major influence on DF

@MrRickywallace

10y↑6

Aah yes, love it--that cool Mancini sound!

@nycjohnny2003

11y↑1

this music transports you, no matter what time you're in or from - thanks Henry for this life-changer

@fioredecor222

9y↑7

MASTERPIECE

@msbony2u

7y↑2

DREAMY and FABULOUS! I remember when they would use this on "Peter Gun"!

@albertomateo5048

No hace falta saber idiomas la buena musica es internacional solo hacen falta personas con sesibilidad

@JerriBerriBoBerri

5y↑4

Henrys daughter, Monica Mancini and Johnny Mathis duet this song. Take a listen it's on here and it's marvelously Dreamsville too.

@GreaterDeity

11y↑1

We just played this at our jazz band concert yesterday... I absolutely love this song.

@amtrakatsfnyc

15y↑1

Nice memory from the past for it reminds me of the first time that I heard this when I purchased the LP Music From Peter Gunn sometime in the late 60s. Thank you for posting this beautiful composition.

@amtrakatsfnyc

11y↑1

My memories are identical to those that you have posted. You are correct: life was slower, more beautiful, and more realistic. Thank God that we still have the memories to enjoy and give us strength.

@gwenwilliams1439

He had a superb talent for smooth sounds and dreamy music!! Nobody could top him, ever....!! I grew up listening to him and have never stopped! 🎼🎵🎶💋💞

@mariaisabelmontoyavillacor9079

4y↑2

Crecí con la música de Henry Mancini, una música de ensueño; empecé a amar sus hermosas melodías; han pasado los años, él ya no está pero nos ha dejado un hermoso legado sus hermosas creaciones del gran genio de la música!!

@BaseballinHeaven

I love that 60's smooth sound by Mancini. What an elegant era! Just beautiful!

@laurag.2148

43w

So beautiful it brought tears to my eyes! ❤️🇨🇦

@musclvr25

8y↑49

When I was 12 years old or so my friends were listening to the Beatles and Elvis, etc. I was listening to Mancini and Percy Faith. What happened to beautiful, mellow music like this?

@noopieflace

7y↑6

Thank God it's still around!!

@amtrakatsfnyc

7y↑5

Ed, I am in the same class as you. My friends would laugh at me because I did not like Elvis and all of the rock and roll "noise". Here I am, age 73, still marveling at music that reflects peace and calm.

@robertvillarreal4525

7y↑2

Like a whisper or a peaceful stream of water, this piece of pure enchantment goes through me, without a single strand of illusion. Was familiar with the theme of The Pink Panther; which was incomparable greatness, all finely wrapped up in one; but this the first of this odyssey I discovered thanks to Youtube and Pandora. On Pandora, I typed in Herb Albert, and a sleu of unbelievable selections were included. Hugo Winterhalter's "Land of Dreams," just blew me away! What a creative and need I say, 'calm' mindset that has since, beyond a doubt, eluded the masses of this unsurpassed time in culture. God bless those days, like Walter Matheau said, " God bless those pajamas" when he ripped them on Dennis the Menace(1993).

@amtrakatsfnyc

7y↑3

Ed, I am in the same category as you. My friends would tease me relative to my musical preference; I did not change to their choices and still remain faithful to the true masters of composition and performance.

@ruthpace7111

7y↑2

I listened to the Beatles - and the Stones - typical teenager stuff. But I also listened to my dad's records - his favorite was Mantovani - he took me to see him in concert and took me to see Johnny Mathis when I was 16.
But from my early teens, I've always liked listening to all sorts of music - classical, opera, light jazz, film music, rock, metal. The only thing I will not listen to is hip-hop and rap.

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@sammkevin4020

8y↑24

I read some many of these responses, and I have the same one. What happened to music like this? Well, I'm here, you, too. What else matters?

@JanRaz1955

I played this in my car recently traveling from NJ to Colorado..it was so relaxing ❤

@kdcobra64

11y↑1

sublime genius

@janecz

11y↑1

One of my favourites songs. Love with Ray Anthony as well.

@sandraeckelhofer

7y↑2

from Heaven, Mr Mancini <3

@franflau

6y↑3

At that fantastic piano no one less than John Williams!!!

@louisestarks2520

8y↑10

This song is wonderful, however it leave me wanting much more. So very nice

@MrLuvOldies

9y↑3

Thank you. Real Beautiful Henry Mancini Music.Mmmmmmmm

@scdeveloppementservices8844

8y↑4

quel immense plaisir d'écouter ces mélodies!!!!!

@yelsnab

10y↑6

from the album 'The Music from Peter Gunn' - the late '50s detective series with Craig Stevens

@jamescasad6504

8y↑14

This was my first, and only loves' song, she's gone now, but our song still lives. Like her, beautiful.

@MrEddeb3

8y↑2

Me too James...57 years ago this December 5th. I'll never forget her...or this song...

@doughelms558

Right, sure. There's one of you on every oldie. (Not quite real, are you?)

@Waxadisc

5y↑2

Pure magic

@oldthudman

12y

Great music!.....One of my all time favorites!!!

@marcie1781

3y↑1

I'm only 13, and I found this song through a Jazz Cello book my teacher gave me. She knew I liked Jazz, and I've been going through the songs and listening to them. This song is still very enjoyable, even in 2021.