Standards
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams chords & key
- Key
- C major
- Form
- AABA
- Bars
- 32
- Groove
- Medium swing
- Time signature
- 4/4
“Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams” is a jazz standard by Harry Barris. It is usually played in C major as a medium swing, and the 32-bar AABA form has 4 sections. Harmonically it contains no major ii–V–I cadences and 3 minor ii–V–i, uses 15 different chords. In this atlas it appears on 24 album tracks.
Chord changes
Showing in: Concert (C) — C major
Changes as commonly played (concert pitch). Your band's version may differ.
Harmonic analysis
Most used chords
- Cmaj7×8
- A7×8
- G7×8
- E7×5
- D7×5
- F7×3
Characteristics
- AABA song form
Recorded on these albums
| 1947 | Frankie Laine Sings Frankie Laine · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1953 | Dizzy Gillespie Plays in Paris Dizzy Gillespie · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1953 | Horn of Plenty Dizzy Gillespie · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1954 | Swing Easy! Frank Sinatra · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1955 | Sing And Swing With Buddy Rich Buddy Rich |
| 1956 | Songs by Frankie Laine Frankie Laine · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1956 | The One, the Only Kay Starr Kay Starr · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1956 | For You Earl Bostic · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1956 | Collates Illinois Jacquet · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1957 | Young Ideas Ray Anthony · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1958 | It's Time for Ernestine Ernestine Anderson with Harry Arnold and his orchestra · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1958 | For You Earl Bostic · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1959 | Sleep Warm Dean Martin · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1959 | Have Trumpet, Will Excite! Dizzy Gillespie · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream Your Troubles Away)” |
| 1959 | Stan Getz Quartets Stan Getz · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1961 | The Divine One Sarah Vaughan · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1961 | For Real! Hampton Hawes · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1963 | Reincarnation of a Love Bird Charles Mingus · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (take 4)” |
| 1963 | Jump For Joy Joe Williams · “Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)” |
| 1964 | Who Can I Turn To Tony Bennett · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream Your Troubles Away)” |
| 1967 | A Time for Love Bobby Hackett · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
| 1976 | Soprano Sax Zoot Sims · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)” |
| 1977 | The 40th Anniversary Carnegie Hall Concert Woody Herman |
| 1977 | Our Man, Papa Jo! Jo Jones · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” |
Historic 78 rpm recordings
- WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS SIDNEY BECHET and his feetwarmers · Sidney Bechet · Eddy Bernard ·… archive.org ↗
- WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS FRANKIE TRUMBAUER And His Orchestra · Koehler · Moll · Borris archive.org ↗
- Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams Billy Moll · Jerry Jerome · Fingers MacDigits · Specs Powell · 1945 archive.org ↗
- WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS The Roy Eldridge Quintet · Roy Eldridge · Barney Kessel · Ray Brown… · 1954 archive.org ↗
Standards with similar changes
Similarity of the chord progression, independent of key.
Frequently asked questions
What key is Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams in?
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams is usually played in C major. For B♭ instruments that is D major, for E♭ instruments A major.
Who wrote Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams?
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams was written by Harry Barris.
What is the form of Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams?
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams has 4 sections (AABA) with 32 bars in total.
How fast is Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams played?
The usual groove is Medium swing.
What are the chord changes to Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams?
The opening bars are Cmaj7 F7 | Em7 A7 | Dm7 E7 | Am7 C7. The full chart above can be transposed to any key.