"I Can Dream About You" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Dan Hartman on the soundtrack album of the film Streets of Fire.

Released in 1984 as a single from the soundtrack, and included on Hartman's album I Can Dream About You, it reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.

"[2][3]Originally, producer Jimmy Iovine had asked Hartman to write a song for a film he was working on.

In an interview snippet from Portzline (2014), Hartman elaborated on another controversy related to the song—stating that “…some people had a fit because it was my name and my voice coming out of this group that looked like the Temptations.

As a result, Hartman was supposedly upset; however, he might have had a change of heart by the following year due to the “good publicity” that the confusion generated (Tuber, 1985).

[6] In the vinyl releases, Hartman, Joe Pizzulo, and Ford are credited as providing backing vocals for the song.

Frank and George Simms, who perform as The Simms Brothers Band and worked as backup singers for artists such as David Bowie,[7] revealed in a 2021 podcast that they sang on "I Can Dream About You" as a favor to Hartman but were uncredited due to the song's quick release thereafter.

Later in their career, however, they issued an album of covers called Our Kind of Soul, in 2004, on which they recorded their own version (with changed lyrics) of Hartman's song.

"[10]Before Ford settled as a musician in Colorado, he went on to tour as a vocalist for artists such as The Platters, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Drifters and Phat Daddy.

One does not feature Hartman and consists of scenes from Streets of Fire, intercut with footage of the fictional Sorels miming the song as part of a live performance.

[23][24] In November 1984, Hartman and his band performed the song on Late Night with David Letterman, along with "We Are the Young".

[25][26][27] It was also dubbed on the American syndicated half hour television show This Week's Music, where his name was incorrectly spelled as 'Harkman'.

The review stated "The title track survived the failure of the 'Streets of Fire' motion picture to become a recent top 10 smash.