I REMEMBER YOU

Created on 20/03/2005
Latest update on 05/03/2026

Artist: Dorothy Lamour
Author: Johnny Mercer/Victor Schertzinger
Label: Paramount
Year: 1941

With Helen O'Connell & Bob Eberly accompanied by the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra in film The Fleet's In. Song cowritten by the director, who died shortly before opening night. Mercer wrote it hoping Judy Garland would take it.

Covers:

1941:

Jimmy Dorsey [first recording (Decca)]

1942:

Harry James [vocal: Helen Forrest]

1944:

Jo Stafford

1947:

Bing Crosby

1954:

Charlie Parker

1955:

Chet Baker

1956:

Doris Day

1959:

Jackie McLean

1959:

Ella Fitzgerald

1959:

June Christy

1959:

Dinah Washington

1960:

Peggy Lee

1961:

Nat King Cole

1962:

Frank Ifield [n°1 UK]

1962:

Sarah Vaughan

1962:

Beatles [Live At The Star Club, Hamburg]

1963:

Julie London

1963:

Lucky Blondo [as Vous souvenez-vous]

1963:

Coleman Hawkins

1987:

Glen Campbell

1991:

Bette Midler & James Caan [in film For The Boys]

1993:

Björk

1998:

Wylie & The Wild West

1999:

George Michael

2001:

Diana Krall

2007:

Art Garfunkel

2014:

Diane Schuur [title track LP]

Ada Jones (1909) remembered someone else. Her song was written by Harry Von Tilzer/Vincent Bryan and introduced in stage show The Girls Of Gottenberg.

Contact


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