BENNY GOODMAN - MEMORIES OF YOU

MEMORIES OF YOU

BENNY GOODMAN &ROSEMARY CLOONEY

SONGWRITERS: ANDY RAZAF & EUBIE BLAKE

WHERE: JAPAN 1980

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MEMORIES OF YOU

LABEL: COLUMBIA

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1955

"Memories of You" is a popular song with lyrics written by Andy Razaf and music composed by Eubie Blake and published in 1930.

The song was introduced by Singer Minto Cato in the Broadway show Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930. A 1930 version recorded by Louis Armstrong featuring Lionel Hampton is the first known use of the vibraphone in popular music.

A version of the song recorded by The Four Coins from the biopic The Benny Goodman Story reached #22 on the Billboard magazine chart in 1955. Doc Severinsen and the NBC Orchestra performed a moving, melancholy instrumental version on the final airing of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, May 22, 1992. The song played over a five-minute "scrapbook" tribute montage showing brief silent clips of some of Carson's favorite guests - seen interacting with the host through the years.

Waking skies at sunrise

Every sunset too

Seems to be bringing me

Memories of you

Here and there, everywhere

Scenes that we once knew

And they all just recall

Memories of you

How I wish I could forget

Those happy yesteryears

That have left a rosary of tears

Your face beams in my dreams

Spite of all I do

Everything seems to bring.