Memories of You

"Memories of You" is a popular song about nostalgia[1] with lyrics written by Andy Razaf and music composed by Eubie Blake and published in 1930.

This article is about the song. For the album by Bette Midler, see Memories of You (album).

Song history

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.

The Armstrong recording in 1930 was reviewed by Times magazine's monthly record review alongside opera records and Western art music records of composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, and Ravel.[2]

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 an instrumental version on the final episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, on May 22, 1992. The song played over a five-minute montage showing brief silent clips of some of Carson's favorite guests, seen interacting with him through the years. This was also the final song on the final album Frank Sinatra recorded for Capitol Records, Point of No Return from 1962.

Other recordings
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gollark: It annoys me that the government goes on about how amazingly important it is and how it would be unethical to make people not go to school for a bit.
gollark: Probably people with compromised immune systems or something should avoid school.
gollark: * pretty much zero chance of dying without preexisting conditions.
gollark: I mean, on the plus side, us student-aged people aren't very affected. On the minus side, we can still transmit it...

See also

References
  1. Browne, Ray Broadus; Ambrosetti, Ronald J. (1993). Continuities in Popular Culture: The Present in the Past & the Past in the Present and Future. ISBN 9780879725938.
  2. Brothers, Thomas (2014). Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. p. 366. ISBN 978-0-393-06582-4.
  3. Gioia, Ted (2012). The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. New York City: Oxford University Press. pp. 262–264. ISBN 978-0-19-993739-4.
  4. Brothers, Thomas (2014). Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. p. 386. ISBN 978-0-393-06582-4.
  5. https://www.discogs.com/Frank-Sinatra-Point-Of-No-Return/master/144081
  6. "Horn A-Plenty - Al Hirt". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
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