"Dreamy Eyes" is a song written and sung by
Johnny Tillotson
Johnny Tillotson (born April 20, 1938) is an American singer-songwriter. He enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s, when he scored nine top-ten hits on the pop, country, and adult contemporary ''Billboard'' charts, including " Poetry ...
, which he recorded on August 21, 1958,
and released later that year. The song was Tillotson’s debut single.
"Dreamy Eyes" spent 9 weeks on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 63.
The song was re-released in 1961, and reached No. 35 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart,
[Hot 100 - Johnny Tillotson Dreamy Eyes Chart History](_blank)
''Billboard.com''. Retrieved February 7, 2018. spending an additional 14 weeks on the chart, making it a total of 23 weeks the song spent on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.
In January 1962, the song reached No. 14 on Canada's
CHUM Hit Parade
The CHUM Chart was a ranking of top 30 (and, until August 1968, the top 50) songs on Toronto, Ontario radio station CHUM AM, from 1957 to 1986, and was the longest-running Top 40 chart in the world produced by an individual radio station. On Janua ...
.
References
1958 songs
Johnny Tillotson songs
Songs written by Johnny Tillotson
Cadence Records singles
1958 debut singles
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