"Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin' (Too Good to Be True)" is a song by Jermaine Jackson featuring his younger brother Michael Jackson, taken from Jermaine Jackson's eponymous album. Jason Elias of AllMusic called this song "percolating and infectious."[1]
The vocal version of "Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin'" was on the B-side to both the 7" and 12" versions of Jermaine Jackson's single "Do What You Do",[2][3] while an instrumental version of the song was on the B-side to another Jermaine Jackson single,
"Dynamite".[4][5]
In her 1993 book Michael Jackson: The King of Pop, author Lisa D. Campbell stated that "although it was never officially released as a single because of legal difficulties between Michael's label, Epic, and Jermaine's label, Arista, the song did receive a lot of airplay."[6] As a result, Billboard did not include the song on any "singles" chart. Nor, at the time, did Billboard publish an airplay-only chart.[7] The song, however, did register on Radio and Records′ Top 40 chart, a chart based solely on airplay, peaking at No. 6 in June 1984. The song was most successful on the BillboardHot Dance Club Play chart, where it spent three weeks at No. 1 that same June.[8] The song was performed as a medley with some of Jermaine Jackson's other solo hits ("Let's Get Serious" and "Dynamite") on the Jacksons' 1984 Victory Tour.[9]
^Campbell, Lisa D. Michael Jackson: The King of Pop (Branden Books, 1993, ISBN0-8283-1957-X, page 86)
^See "The New Billboard". Billboard. 20 October 1984. pp. 1, 73. The magazine instituted such a chart later in 1984, months after the song's popularity had peaked.
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