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.