Just a Dream (Jimmy Clanton song)

"Just a Dream" is a 1958 single by Jimmy Clanton and His Rockets released on the Ace Records label. The actual record-label states that it was written by Clanton and Cosimo Matassa (Matassa was Clanton's manager), but other sources state that Clanton was the sole composer. The single went to number one on the R&B Best Sellers lists for one week and peaked at number four on the Hot 100.[1]

Ruby Winters covered the song in 1969 and it peaked at #40 on US R&B charts.

Original words written by Regina F Phillips and sent to Lew Tobin which was copyrighted. https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=Phillips%2C%20Regina%20F%2E&PID=TvsUVVy-l-DS1-ae3TM4WKgPyp5DMY&BROWSE=1&HC=1&SID=2

Regina never received credit for the song lyrics.

Apparently Lew Tobin was a bit of a song shark as noted by Randy Johnson on http://www.songpoemmusic.com/insomniac.htm