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bubbaTUNESday - bub136 Lisa Hartman - Dreamer Of Dreams

Today's bubbatune brings you one of my all time fav gals of the world. She may be more famous these days as wife to Clint Black but there was a time when she was pretty damn popular on her own. There were tons of scantily clad pix of Lisa Hartman all over the magazines in the 80s when she was at the height of her fame if you will, which would've been the Knots Landing years and shortly there after. But like most people who do know who she is, Lisa Hartman Black, the singer isn't much more than an occassional duet partner for her husband. But it's actually music and a record contract that first brought Lisa Hartman into the world of celebrity.

Her first soft pop self titled album came out in 1976, followed by a one off single in 1978, a Motown inspired rock album called Hold On in 1979, then my favorite - her 1982 rock album Letterock and her theme to the film Where The Boys Are '84 and finally another rock album in 1987. All the while she stayed busy making TV movies and appearing on Knots Landing for four years. Now she shows up occassionally on record and in concert with Clint, but this little collection called Dreamer Of Dreams shows Miss Hartman doing what she had set out to do - make records... and though the elusive hit didn't happen until her marriage, that doesn't mean these songs don't deserve a good listen or ten.


bub136 LISA HARTMAN - DREAMER OF DREAMS (December 2008)

Years and years ago someone online sent me all the Lisa Hartman music they could get their hands on and I put them into the Bubbatunes collections (bub7) as a 2 CD set but since those days I have come up with the whole Lisa Hartman re-releases and a collection of rarities and felt it was time to come out with a one disc comprehensive collection of Lisa's best ofs.

I tried to incorporate every single 7" single she released but didn't quite make it as I had to have some favorite album tracks thrown on as well. We have all 3 of the Clint Black duets, and songs covering all four of Lisa's solo albums, plus some one off singles and even some "rare" "live" stuff from her films and Knots Landing.

Rather than do a chronological look at Lisa, I thought it was way more fun and just throw it all out there and see how it lands, so we start with the newest song available "You Still Get To Me" - the latest duet with her husband from last March, before going to the vaults and pulling songs and singles from her albums.

Some rare points include the 7" cut versions of "Where The Boys Are" and "I Don't Need Love" - two songs that should have been hits.

The majority of these songs come from what is my favorite album in her catalog - 1982's Letterock which should've been a hit if not just from the fact Lisa sang some of these songs on Knots Landing. Included in Dreamer Of Dreams, is the single "Hidin' From Love", "If Love Must Go", "Hole In My Heart", "New Romance (It's A Mystery)" and "Games" - the last four which were all performed on Knots Landing - (Games is performed during the scene when a drunken Gary wrecks Ciji Dunne's recording session by telling Abby they are 'ruinninnggg liiiives!'). Also from Letterock is Lisa's pseudo homage to gays with "Johnny's Always On My Mind"

1979's Hold On has some of my favorite Lisa songs and the ones included here include "Walk Away" (the one and only single released) and its B-side - an update on the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On" (which she also performed on Knots Landing), my favorite from that album "If You Want To Come Home" and the pretty ballad "Don't You Love Me Anymore" (incidentally also sung on Knots).

From her final album Til My Heart Stops, I threw on all three of the singles - the aforementioned "I Don't Need Love" plus the pop/rock ballady "The Dress" and the rocking "Tempt Me (If You Want To)".

The vault begins with her self titled 1976 album and from there comes the singles "Saying Hello, Saying I Love You, Saying Goodbye" and "Pickin' Up The Pieces" but I had to dump the final single "Kentucky Rainbows" for one of my fav album tracks, "Somebody Been Lovin' Her".

In the same musical vein as the Lisa Hartman songs is the 1978 single "Nobody Likes Lovin' More Than I Do (Dreamer Of Dreams)" which is where our title is sort of derived from.

The rarer songs come out with her cover of "Sometimes When We Touch" which was sung on Knots Landing, and "Waitin' For A Miracle" which our girl sang on the TV film The Great American Traffic Jam in 1980.

So even though these songs never made any chart dent, they left a huge dent in my life, and I love all of Lisa's songs and now maybe you will too, and of course we all know things worked out for Lisa but it would've been great if just one of these ditties had had some chart action, after all at the biggest time in her career Lisa told TV Guide, "I want to sing. I came out here with a dream and I still want that to happen." Alas, a dreamer of dreams.





bub136 LISA HARTMAN - Dreamer Of Dreams
Track List: 01. YOU STILL GET TO ME (w/ Clint Black) 02. IF YOU WANT TO COME HOME 03. HOLE IN MY HEART 04. WHERE THE BOYS ARE (Single Version) 05. I DON'T NEED LOVE (Single Version) 06. NEW ROMANCE (IT'S A MYSTERY) 07. YOU KEEP ME HANGIN' ON 08. EASY FOR ME TO SAY (w/ Clint Black) 09. SAYING HELLO, SAYING I LOVE YOU, SAYING GOODBYE 10. HIDIN' FROM LOVE 11. THE DRESS 12. PICKIN' UP THE PIECES 13. WAITING FOR A MIRACLE 14. WALK AWAY 15. TEMPT ME (IF YOU WANT TO) 16. IF LOVE MUST GO 17. NOBODY LIKES LOVIN' MORE THAN I DO (DREAMER OF DREAMS) 18. JOHNNY'S ALWAYS ON MY MIND 19. SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH 20. GAMES 21. SOMEBODY BEEN LOVIN' HER 22. WHEN I SAID I DO (w/ Clint Black) 23. DON'T YOU LOVE ME ANYMORE

FOR A LIMITED TIME: (UPDATED 2/5/10)
Updated 10/14/10: LISA HARTMAN - DREAMER OF DREAMS

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