The organ and hi-hat part I changed made it a bit more swinging and a little bit more driving. I re-worked the drums, organ and keyboard. Song taken from Mariahs Merry Christmas album. The spirit of the song was up, but it wasn’t hitting hard enough. Mariah Carey - Jesus Born On This Day (lyrics on screen) - YouTube. Their version of ‘Dreamlover’ was missing a lot of stuff.

Mariah and Dave did this loop thing which was new to us pop producers at the time. In an interview Afanasieff described the alteration:

Music executive Tommy Mottola, Carey’s fiancée at the time, didn’t like the initial outcome of “Dreamlover” so he had producer Walter Afanasieff change the instrumental. Then we started listening to a lot of different and old loops and we used the ‘Blind Alley’ loop and I started singing the melody over it So he said, ‘Oh, you want to do that happy stuff? All right, all right.’ He was not into doing it. I wanted to do something that had a happy feeling, something that was more open and released, and that’s really not Dave.

In an interview with Fred Bronson, Mariah described the recording process:

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