<P> "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" is the third single from Carly Simon's 1987 album Coming Around Again . The song was written by Simon and produced by John Boylan . Simon performed the song at her iconic 1987 concert Live From Martha's Vineyard . </P> <P> The song is one of Simon's biggest latter period AC hits, and as a result is included on multiple compilations of her work, which include 1995's 3 - disc box set Clouds in My Coffee, the UK import The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better, the 2 - disc retrospective Anthology, 2004's single disc Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits, and 2014's Playlist: The Very Best of Carly Simon . </P> <P> The title references the line "The stuff that dreams are made of" from The Maltese Falcon, and, second - handedly, Shakespeare: In Act IV of The Tempest, Prospero says "We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep". </P> <P> No official music video was made for this song, though a video was created and directed during a VHS recording of the Martha's Vineyard concert in mid-1988 . </P>

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