songs about remembering

Subject: songs about remembering
From: topical tom
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 05:01 PM

As age creeps up on us older folk we often turn to memories of the past.These are treasures (or otherwise)to be pondered over as time goes by.In many cases,sadly, they are all we have left.Let's see how many songs have to do with memories and remembering.There have been many great ones.Here are two that I love:

Pecious Memories

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 05:05 PM

Thank You For the Days.
In My Life.
The Old School Yard.
No Woman No Cry.
Beeswing.

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: topical tom
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 05:07 PM

I missed one!"Remember Me" as sung by Roy Acuff

        

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The sweetest songs belong to lovers in the gloaming
The sweetest days are the days that used to be
The saddest words I ever heard were words of parting
When you said sweetheart remember me
Remember me when the candle lights are gleaming
Remember me at the close of a long long day
It would be so sweet when all alone I'm dreaming
Just to know you still remember me

You told me once that you were mine alone forever
And I was yours till the end of eternity
But all our vows are broken now and we will never
Be the same except in memory
[ dobro ]
A brighter face may take my place when we're apart dear
A sweeter smile and a love more bold and free
But in the end fearweather friends may break your heart dear
If they do sweetheart remember me
Remember me when the candle lights...
Just to know you still remember me

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Ythanside
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 05:13 PM

'Those Were The Days'
'Maggie'

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 05:24 PM

"Bring Back the Days" as sung by Bob Zentz.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: peregrina
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 05:40 PM

Archie Fisher: Fiddle Farewell
Ed Pickford: Strange Lover is a Coal Mine, Crumpled Mac

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Leadfingers
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 05:43 PM

Bill Caddick's 'Sunny Memories' album - inspired by a collection of Pre WW1 photographs he found in a Junk Shop has a PILE of great songs , the Title track being probably the best that fits in this thread

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 06:49 PM

Bee Gees - Don't Forget To Remember

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Genie
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 07:23 PM

Memory - from "Cats" (Andrew Lloyd-Webber/ Tim Rice)
Memories - Tin Pan Alley song
Remember - Irving Berlin ("... You promised that you'd forget me not, but you forgot to remember."
Thanks For The Memories - (Bob Hope's theme song)
Try To Remember - from "The Fantasticks!"
The Way We Were - (from movie of same name)

September Song (from "Nickerbocker Holiday")
Come Back, Paddy Reilly (Percy French)

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Genie
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 07:24 PM

I Remember Loving You - Utah Phillips

Gentle On My Mind - John Hartford

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Genie
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 07:27 PM

A Handful Of Songs (Jerry Rasmussen)

River (Bill Staines)

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: GUEST,cStu
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 08:26 PM

I Forgot To Remember To Forget her - Elvis/Charlie Feathers

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: topical tom
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 05:34 AM

Thanks,folks, for all the good songs and memories.I especially enjoyed Jerry Rasmussen's "A Handful of Songs".

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 05:39 AM

"Ah yes ah remembare eet well" Gigi.

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: topical tom
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 06:13 AM

fat B****rd: LOL!Another side of memory!
Here

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 08:57 AM

Can't remember who wrote, or sang it, but (TTTO Hi Ho!)

Oh shit, oh shit
I can't remember it.
As I sing my song, the words have gone
Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit oh shit.

Oh shit, oh shit,
What was the other bit, ... ...


Nigel

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: mg
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 12:14 PM

try to remember the kind of september...

did someone say memories are made of this..or I remember youhoo..

donegal danny..

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Snuffy
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 12:33 PM

But the ladies remember at Whitsun

How well I remember that terrible day
When our blood stained the sand and the water

But that's a long long time ago
There's a picture in a frame
And tears shed every Christmas
But the memories remain

Remember December of fifty-nine
The howling wind and driving rain
Remember the gallant men who drowned
On the lifeboat, Mona was her name

A long, long time ago, I can still remember how that music used to make me smile.

By the waters the waters of Babylon
Where we lay down
Yea we wept when we remembered Zion

While I'm away, Oh please remember me.
When I return, I'll find you waiting here.

It's well I do remember on a bleak November's day,
The landlord and his agent came to drive us all away;
He set my house on fire with his demon yellow spleen
And that's another reason why I left Old Skibbereen.

I took the gold pin from the scarf on my bosom,
And said, "Take ye this, in remembrance of me",
And bravely I kissed the sweet lips of the lassie
Ere I parted with her on the road to Dundee.

Pretty babes in the wood, pretty babes in the wood
Oh, don't you remember those babes in the wood

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 12:47 PM

And then there's a song titled "Memories." There's a gospel song titled "Remember Me," too.

Jerry

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Genie
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 01:11 PM

I mentioned "Memories" above, Jerry. Are you thinking of the same one?

"Memories, memories,
Dreams of love so true.
O'er a sea of memory
I'm drifting back to you.

Childhood days, wildwood days
Among the leaves of green.
You left me alone
But you're still my own
In my beautiful memories."


Mary, I was just about to mention "I Remember You"
(...
And when my life is through
And the angels ask me to recall
The thrill of it all,
Then I will tell them I remember you."

Perry Como had a pop hit with a song called "Magic Moments" back in the '50s.
And there was another one (The Four Tops?) called "Moments To Remember."

How can we NOT have mentioned Burns's AULD LANG SYNE?

Subject: songs about remembering (or not)
From: Genie
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 01:44 PM

Along the lines of "Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well,"
we also have these hilarious gems:

The Memory Song (Steve Walters)
("I'm looking for my wallet and my car keys ... ")

and Sue Trainor's parody of Tom Paxton's "Last Thing On My Mind," written for Tom's 60th birthday:
(Don't Know What Was) The Last Thing On My Mind

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 02:06 PM

Thazt's it, Genie. Somehow, I seem to have read right over it..

Jerry

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Genie
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 07:31 PM

There's also another "Those Were The Days" -- the one that was used as the theme song for All In The Family:

Boy, the way Glen Miller played
Songs that made the hit parade!
Guys like us, we had it made --
Those were the days!

Didn't need no welfare state,
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great!
Those were the days!

And you knew where [who?] you were then:
Girls were girls and men were men.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again!

...

And the last verse is eluding my recall at the moment. (I.e., I can't remember it right now. LOL )

Anyway, maybe "nostalgia" songs is a slightly different category from "songs about remembering."

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: CupOfTea
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 09:16 AM

The Dutchman
Bob Dylan's Dream
Didn't I Dance
Music in my Mother's House
Outside Track
Part of Me Remembers (Mustard's Retreat)
Raglan Road
Sliabh Gallion Braes

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: peregrina
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 09:20 AM

Tim O'Brien: 'Running out of Memory for You' --about the electronic kind

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: squeezebox-kc
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 10:00 AM

only remembered for what he had done
Swan Arcade amongst others

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Barry Finn
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 11:31 AM

Yesterday
Please Forget me Not
When You & I Were Young Maggie

Barry

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 11:42 AM

This would make a great Getaway workshop.
So many songs I haven't thought of in years.

When You Were Sweet Sixteen
My Buddy

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: topical tom
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 11:46 AM

Thanks,all, for the great songs.Hereis a great, though sad, bluegrass memory.

Subject: Lyr Add: SWEET SONG FROM YESTERDAY (Bob Zentz)
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 12:32 PM

The song Charlie Noble mentioned by Bob Zentz is actually

"SWEET SONG FROM YESTERDAY"

Hold back the days in which I'm living,
So far from home, so far from free;
Hold back the way we've all been given,
And let a sweet song from yesterday wash over me.

If we should meet like ships a-passin',
Some stormy night upon the blue,
We may not speak, but for the asking,
I'd let a sweet song from yesterday wash over you.

When it seems you dreams ain't worth the dreamin',
When you can't find you way through,
And when you schemes ain't worth the schemin',
Just let a sweet song from yesterday wash over you.

...verse I added many years ago because I thought it was too short:(a copy was given to Bob just so he'd know what happened if anyone used it near him.)

"So many times we've sung together-
So many songs, but still too few.
So sing tonight - and on the 'morrow,
Just let a sweet song from yesterday...wash over you"

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: topical tom
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 12:41 PM

Bill D:"Sweet Song From Yesterday" is a lovely song indeed.

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Bert
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 03:58 PM

Hot soup have this one (Don't know what was the) Last thing on my mind

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 08:19 PM

Remember When The Music Came From Wooden Boxes (Harry Chapin)

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Ref
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 09:20 PM

Cheryl Wheeler's "Further And Further Away."

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 08:39 AM

Here is another of my favourite songs about remembering.

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 08:43 AM

Oooops! Sorry about the little military promo!

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: GUEST,Golightly
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 09:25 AM

I'm not a big fan of Sting, but his'Fields of Gold' is already a classic and has to be in this list:

Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of gold
Youll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in the fields of gold

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 10:41 AM

The one that starts 'I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places..'

I think it is one of the most elegant songs ever written.

I see you in the morning sun and when the day is through,
I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing...you.'

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Genie
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 12:26 PM

That's the title, leeneia: "I'll Be Seeing You."   It was very popular during WWII.

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: fat B****rd
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 12:46 PM

Thankyou Topical Tom. I reserve the right to sing in a Maurice Chevalier accent on account of my French roots.
There's a lovely song by Mose Alison called "Was" on the theme of 'When is becomes was" and not forgetting Johnny Mercer's "Early Autumn" and Mr. Wait's "Martha"
I'll get me hanky.
Charlie

Subject: Lyr Add: NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN (from Edith Piaf
From: Genie
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 01:08 PM

In addition to McCartney's "Yesterday," there's also an older song (from the first half of the 20th C.) titled "Yesterdays."

Then there's the one Roy Clark sang: "Yesterday When I Was Young."
Wasn't that originally a French song done by Charles Aznavour?

Speaking of French songs about reminiscing, there's Edith Piaf's "Le Vieux Piano" (The Old Piano), and I guess you could also include what in her later life sort of became her signature song:

Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
(Charles Dumont/Michel Vaucaire
Non, rien de rien, (No, nothing at all)
Non, je ne regrette rien, (No, I regret nothing,)
Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait ni le mal - (Neither the good they've done to me nor the bad -)
Ça m'est bien égal. (It's all the same to me."
Non, rien de rien,
Non, je ne regrette rien.
C'est payé, balayé, oublié (It's paid for, swept away, forgotten)
Je me fous du passé! (I don't give a damn about the past!)

Avec mes souvenirs (With my memories)
J'ai allumé le feu, (I light the fire)
Mes chagrins, mes plaisirs, (My problems, my pleasures,)
Je n'ai plus besoin. d'eux (I don't need them any more_
Balayés mes amours (My love affairs swept away)
Avec leurs trémolos (with their
Balayés pour toujours. (swept away forever.)
Je repars à zéro. (I'm starting again at zero.)

Non, rien de rien,
Non, je ne regrette rien,
Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait, ni le mal -
Tout ça m'est bien égal!
Non, rien de rien,
Non, je ne regrette rien,
Car ma vie (For my life,)
Car mes joies (for my joys)
Aujourd'hui (today)
Ça commence avec toi. (That begins with you.)

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Genie
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 01:12 PM

I love that last line from Michael Smith's "The Dutchman" -

"Long ago I used to be a young man
And dear Margaret remembers that for me."

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 01:16 PM

You're welcome, Charlie!When I think of that song I think of it first as sung by Maurice Chevalier, so singing it with a French accent seems totally natural to me.By the way, you may notice that most of my songs are tear-jerkers.When a song provokes laughter or tears I consider it a good song so WTH,I'll keep carrying hankies and Kleenex whereever I go!

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Jay777
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 01:30 PM

Will you Remember Mine?- A beautiful song by good ol' (Boxcar) Willie Nelson.
Will you Remember Me?- Sarah McLachlan.
Remember (Walking in the Sand)- Shangrilas.

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Bert
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 03:24 PM

...When a song provokes laughter or tears I consider it a good song so WTH,I'll keep carrying hankies and Kleenex whereever I go!..

Good for you mate.

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Stewie
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 07:55 PM

There is also Tom Rush's 'Remember Song':

CLICK.

--Stewie.

Subject: Lyr Add: I WILL REMEMBER YOU (Sarah MacLachlan)
From: Genie
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 08:18 PM

I WILL REMEMBER YOU
(by Sarah McLachlan, Seamus Egan, and Dave Merenda)

I will remember you.
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by,
Weep not for the memories.

Remember the good times that we had?
I let them slip away from us when things got bad.
How clearly I first saw you smiling in the sun.
Want to feel your warmth upon me, I want to be the one.

I will remember you.
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by,
Weep not for the memories.

I'm so tired but I can't sleep,
Standing on the edge of something much too deep.
It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word.
We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard.

But I will remember you.
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by,
Weep not for the memories.

I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose,
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose.
Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night.
You gave me everything you had, oh, you gave me light.

And I will remember you.
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by,
Weep not for the memories.

And I will remember you.
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by,
Weep not for the memories.
Weep not for the memories.

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 08:32 PM

Genie, that is a wonderful song.I just heard it sung recently at the funeral of a dear friend.It was very moving.

Subject: I Will Remember You
From: Genie
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 08:54 PM

Yeah, it's a beautiful song, and Sarah McL. sings it beautifully too.   I hadn't thought of it in that context, but it really fits.

Here's another "remembering" song, which I first heard sung by Celtic Thunder. It's by Phil Coulter, who wrote "Scorn Not His Simplicity" and a number of others.

Remember Me, Recuerdame

Subject: RE: songs about remembering
From: Genie
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 09:16 PM

Here's another good 'un:

Remember When? (Alan Jackson)