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Day Dreaming (Aretha Franklin song)

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"Day Dreaming"
Song

"Day Dreaming" is a soul single by American singer Aretha Franklin. Released from her 1972 album, Young, Gifted and Black, it spent two weeks at the top of the Soul Singles chart and peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. Donny Hathaway plays electric piano on the single. It has been believed that the song is about Temptation's singer Dennis Edwards. It would be her twelth number one soul single while at Atlantic Records and sold over one million copies.

Chart positions

Charts Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 5
U.S. Billboard Soul Single 1 (2 weeks)
Preceded by
"In the Rain" by The Dramatics
Billboard's Soul Chart number one single
April 22 - April 29, 1972
Succeeded by