Memories of You

DESCRIPTION: "Why can't I forget like I should? Heaven knows I would if I could." The singer cannot forget, and whines about how everything -- sunrise, sunset, places they have been -- bring back "memories of you" and leave "a rosary of tears"
AUTHOR: Words: Andy Razaf / Music: Eubie Blake (source: Wikipedia)
EARLIEST DATE: 1930 (date of composition, according to Wikipedia)
KEYWORDS: love separation
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RECORDINGS:
Brian Hawkins, "Memories of You" (Fragment: Piotr-Archive #709, recorded 10/11/2023)
NOTES [56 words]: Although apparently written in 1930, this seems to have been popularized by a 1955 recording by Benny Goodman and Rosemary Clooney. It patently is not folk in origin, and I doubt it has been adopted by the folk, other than one person who couldn't even stay on pitch while singing it. For more information, try the Wikipedia article. - RBW
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