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"Try to Remember" is a song about nostalgia [1] from the musical comedy play The Fantasticks (1960). It is the first song performed in the show, encouraging the audience to imagine what the sparse set suggests. The words were written by the American lyricist Tom Jones while Harvey Schmidt composed the music.
The song "Try to Remember" was added at this time. Harvey Schmidt says he wrote it in a single afternoon, after it emerged in almost complete form after a fruitless afternoon attempting to compose other songs. [15] The revamped play appeared on a bill of new one-act plays at Barnard College for one week in August 1959. [9] [16]
His best-known work is The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway from 1960 until 2002, and the hit song from the same, "Try to Remember". Other songs from The Fantasticks include "Soon It's Gonna Rain", "Much More", and "I Can See It". He also wrote the screenplay for the 1995 feature-film adaptation. [2]
American R&B band Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded a cover of "The Way We Were" as part of a blend with the song "Try to Remember", released on their 1974 studio album I Feel a Song. The cover/blend was released by Buddah Records on March 14, 1975, in a 7-inch format, paired with the B-side singles "Love Finds Its Own Way" and "The Need to Be".
"All My Life" by K-Ci & JoJo (1997) "Close to me you're like my father, Close to me you're like my sister, Close to me you're like my brother" Well, OK—that seems weird, but I'm still down with it.
Kelly Clarkson needs a refresher course on her own songs. During a rehearsal on Friday, the 34-year-old singer went on Facebook live to sing a few of her hits for her fans, but couldn't seem to ...
Published in 1935, the song was written for the 1935 film Mississippi starring Bing Crosby and W.C. Fields.Crosby introduced the song in the film and his recording for Decca Records made on February 21, 1935 with Georgie Stoll and his Orchestra and Rhythmettes and Three Shades of Blue [1] topped the charts of the day. [2]
The lyrics are about getting through the day, step by step, trying to move along. And I just went like, “Oh my God, I just can’t believe how tough his life is right now.” And I went, “This ...