The Dream Weavers

The Dream Weavers were an American pop music duo that was popular in the 1950s.

Gene Adkinson and Wade Buff went to different high schools, but they were both members of the " The Greater Miami Boys' Drum and Bugle Corps ," a 100 -member corps. They became friends and composed even at school some common songs.

Then they studied together at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where she won a talent contest of 5,000 students. As a result, they were in 1955 twice weekly contest on the university's radio station " LITTER" the half-hour program "Starlight Serenade with Gene and Wade" with pianist Lee Turner and bassist Eddie Newsom. The show ended at 10:30 clock, and finally genes and Wade each the song "It 's Almost Tomorrow" were allowed to play. The music was composed Gene Adkinson, Wade Buff steered the text at.

The host of the show, Chuck Murdock, launched a competition to find a matching group names for the two. The winner of this competition argued that "... those who have written the song creator ( " Weber " ) dreams are. " - The band name The Dream Weavers was found.

"It's Almost Tomorrow " was recorded as a single in Jacksonville. Subsequently, the song was on constantly in the local radio of Miami. This in turn prompted the record label Decca Records to an improved quality re-recording of the piece. This version reached 1956, the top 10 U.S. and even # 1 on the UK singles chart. Wade Buff acted in the recording as the lead singer, and the third voice was sung by alternating female performers ( Sally Sanborn, Mary Carr, Mary Rude and others)

The Dream Weavers published in 1955 and 1956, half a dozen singles, including " You're Mine ", " Into the Night ", "A Little Love Can Go a Long Way " and " Give Us This Day", and were among Deccas top artists. They were also regular inter alia, on the Ed Sullivan Show or Perry Como regular TV show.

In March 1956, married Mary Buff Rude. After their honeymoon, they wanted to put together the group for a tour, but then decided that such a long tour and life on the road would not be so good for married life. Wade Buff guaranteed his place in the Dream Weavers for Lee Raymond. But then Gene Adkinson was drafted into the army, and the group ended its existence.

The song "It's Almost Tomorrow" was ( " The 3000 's biggest hit singles from 1955 to today " ) is equal to seven times noted in a survey by the American music magazine Billboard's " Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits", including number 87 of total list, number 46 of the "Top 100 of 1950 ", number 17 of the "Top 100 of 1956 ", 5th in " Decca 's Top 50 " and 13th of " debut singles that reached the Top 100 ."