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Tell Me I Was Dreaming

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Critical reception
Music video
Track Note
Chart positions
Year-end charts
References

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| name = Tell Me I Was Dreaming
| cover =
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| type = single
| artist = Travis Tritt
| album = Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof
| released = April 3, 1995
| format =
| recorded = 1994
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Country
| length = 4:53 (single version); 6:28 (album version)
| label = Warner Bros.
| writer = Travis Tritt, Bruce Ray Brown
| producer = Gregg Brown
| prev_title = Between an Old Memory and Me
| prev_year = 1995
| next_title = Sometimes She Forgets
| next_year = 1995
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"Tell Me I Was Dreaming" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Travis Tritt. It was released in April 1995 as the fourth and final single from his album Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof. It peaked at number 2 in the United States, and number 3 in Canada. The song was written by Tritt and Bruce Ray Brown.

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that the "big ballad combines an impassioned vocal performance with Gregg Brown's nifty production touches." She goes on to call the song "country through and through."^[1]

Music video

The controversial but heartbreaking music video was directed by Michael Merriman, and premiered in early 1995. It was filmed in Austin, Texas, and is the second video in Travis Tritt's trilogy of videos featuring him as Mac Singleton, a crippled U.S. Army veteran; the first video being the chart-topping "Anymore" (1991), and the third one being the Top 30 "If I Lost You" (1998). In this video, his pregnant wife Annie slips, falls and seriously injures her head on the docks while cleaning a boat. A very panicked Mac and his friend, Al, try to rescue her, but she dies, although the baby girl that she was carrying, survives. Mac names the baby after Annie. The video uses the nearly 5 minute single version (4:53).

The video has since been cited as one of the saddest videos in country music history by both historians and fans. It also spent 3 weeks at #1 on CMT's Top 12 Countdown in June 1995, as well as score an ACM nomination for Video of the Year in 1996.

Track Note

The nearly 6 and a half minute version is on the album itself. There is also an edit which appears on Tritt's first greatest hits collection (Greatest Hits: From The Beginning), which is under five minutes (4:53), being short of the jam at the end. On the compilation The Very Best of Travis Tritt the song is only 3:46.

Chart positions

"Tell Me I Was Dreaming" debuted at number 73 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of April 15, 1995.

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Chart (1995)	Peak position

Year-end charts

Chart (1995)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[2]	36
US Country Songs (Billboard)^[3]	14

References

1. ^Billboard, April 8, 1995
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.2838&type=1&interval=24|title=RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1995|work=RPM|date=December 18, 1995|accessdate=July 21, 2013}}
3. ^{{Cite web | url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1995/hot-country-songs| title=Best of 1995: Country Songs | work=Billboard | publisher=Prometheus Global Media | date=1995| accessdate=July 21, 2013}}

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