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The basic tracking of All My Dreams took place on 28 April 1985 at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California (four days after Holly Rock, a day after Kiss).
It was included as the eleventh and final track on a 1 May 1985 configuration of Parade, but was removed before the album’s release. The track was later included as the nineteenth and final track on a 3 June 1986 configuration of the album Dream Factory, and kept as the eighteenth and final track on the 18 July 1986 configuration of the album.
When Prince decided not to proceed with the album after disbanding the Revolution, and concentrated instead on Camille and Crystal Ball (both of which were also aborted), he decided not to include the song. The song was also considered for the planned musical The Dawn (along with Heaven, God Is Everywhere, Others Here With Us, When The Dawn Of The Morning Comes, Crucial and The Cocoa Boys), but the musical was ultimately abandoned, and the song was never intended for any of Prince’s other late-1986 album projects.
All My Dreams was mentioned as a possible track for the 1998/1999 album of Revolution-era tracks, Roadhouse Garden, but this remains unreleased. Artwork has been posted online for an NPG Music Club album titled All My Dreams, which likely includes this track, but nothing else is known about this album. The song was shelved until it was released in September 2020 as the third track of Vault Tracks part 1, one of the discs with previously unreleased tracks included with the Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition.
A portion of a distorted spoken section of this song was later reused in Acknowledge Me.
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