Songs that stole our souls - song 'Dream Lover'

Interview, Oct, 1997 by Greil Marcus

For as long as Stars Screaming lasts, the song is lost to its singer; it's the singer's life that sings the song or, maybe, finally gets to turn it off. More than anything - more than an old hit, more than a good tune, more than a big moment in Bobby Darin's life - the song becomes part of a little theater on the shoulders of a character an author has made up.

By chance I found myself talking to the man who produced the record just as I was finishing John Kaye's book. He talked about how Darin had been discovered, the demos he wanted to record, the talent some saw and some were blind to, the date of the recording session, and none of it seemed half as real as the story Kaye tells.