"Try to Remember" is a song from the musical comedy The Fantasticks. It is the first song sung in the show, to get the audience to imagine what the sparse set suggests. Its lyrics, written by Tom Jones, famously rhyme "remember" with "September", "so tender", and "December." Harvey Schmidt composed the music.
"Try to Remember" was originally sung by Jerry Orbach in the Original Off Broadway production of The Fantasticks. "Try To Remember" made the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart three times in 1965 in versions by Ed Ames, Roger Williams and The Brothers Four. However, in 1975, Gladys Knight & The Pips had a huge international hit with their version of "Try to Remember," combining it into a medley with a cover of Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were". It reached #11 on the Hot 100 chart. In Knight's version, she recited some of the lyrics from "Try To Remember" in spoken-word fashion before beginning to sing "The Way We Were." The Greek singer Nana Mouskouri also recorded it in three languages: German, French, and Italian.
Try to Remember was also used in the soundtrack of the film The Man Who Fell to Earth, the video game Chrono Trigger, and the Hong Kong film City of Glass (Boli zhi cheng).
"Try to Remember" was originally sung by Jerry Orbach in the Original Off Broadway production of The Fantasticks. "Try To Remember" made the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart three times in 1965 in versions by Ed Ames, Roger Williams and The Brothers Four. However, in 1975, Gladys Knight & The Pips had a huge international hit with their version of "Try to Remember," combining it into a medley with a cover of Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were". It reached #11 on the Hot 100 chart. In Knight's version, she recited some of the lyrics from "Try To Remember" in spoken-word fashion before beginning to sing "The Way We Were." The Greek singer Nana Mouskouri also recorded it in three languages: German, French, and Italian.
Try to Remember was also used in the soundtrack of the film The Man Who Fell to Earth, the video game Chrono Trigger, and the Hong Kong film City of Glass (Boli zhi cheng).
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00:00Try to remember the kind of September When life was slow and, oh, so mellow
00:21Try to remember the kind of September When grass was green and grain was yellow
00:34Try to remember the kind of September When you were a tender and callow fellow
00:48Try to remember, and if you remember, then follow
01:02Try to remember when life was so tender That no one wept except the willow
01:16Try to remember when life was so tender That dreams were kept beside your pillow
01:30Try to remember when life was so tender That love was an ember about to billow
01:44Try to remember, and if you remember, then follow
01:58Deep in December it's nice to remember Although you know the snow will follow
02:11Deep in December it's nice to remember Without a hurt the heart is hollow
02:25Deep in December it's nice to remember The fire of September that made us mellow
02:39Deep in December our hearts should remember and follow
02:55Follow, follow, follow, follow
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