Remember | |||||||||||||
Recording Artist: | Bryan Adams | ||||||||||||
Writers: | Jim Vallance Bryan Adams |
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Date Written: | 1978 / Vancouver Canada | ||||||||||||
Albums: | Bryan
Adams (A&M Records, 1980) Anthology (A&M Records, 2005) |
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Audio: | Click to view the lyric |
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Bryan Adams: rhythm guitar, vocal Jim Vallance: drums, organ, (bass?) Jim Clench: bass? Peter Bjerring: Arp Odyssey synthesizer solo Bruce Fairbairn: trumpet Tom Keenlyside: saxophone Ralph Eppel: trombone Backing vocals: Nancy Nash Produced by Jim Vallance and Bryan Adams. Recorded October 20 and 21, 1978 at Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, and October 24, 1978 at Little Mountain Sound, Vancouver. Mixed by Bobby Shaper at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, January 1980. |
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Cover Versions: | Also recorded by Rosetta Stone | ||||||||||||
Comments: |
"Remember" would have benefited greatly had Bob Clearmountain or Bob Rock produced the track. Regardless, it's a serviceable rocker, and Bryan still trots it
out from time in concert.
I was pleasantly surprised when I learned that he'd included the song on his 2005 "Anthology" CD. We recorded the basic track on October 20 and 21, 1978, at Mushroom Studios in Vancouver. The horn overdubs and Nancy Nash's backing vocals were recorded at Little Mountain Sound a few days later, the evening of October 24. I was producing BTO at Mushroom Studios at the time, so we used Robbie Bachman's drum kit for the "Remember" session. I played drums and keyboards on the track (drummer Matt Frenette of Loverboy "mimes" on the video). It's either me or Jim Clench (April Wine) on bass ... I can't recall. Bryan played all the guitars. The horns were played by my "Prism" pals Bruce Fairbairn (trumpet), Tom Keenlyside (saxophone) and Ralph Eppel (trombone). "Remember" also features a superb synthesizer solo by Peter Bjerring, played on an Arp Odyssey (the Arp was "state of the art" in 1978!). A year earlier Peter had played another outstanding Arp solo on my Prism song "Spaceship Superstar". On October 28, 1978 -- at the request of A&M's Michael Godin -- Adams and I flew to Toronto to do a mix of "Remember" with engineer Mike Jones at Sounds Interchange Studios. I remember the mix being quite good, but for some reason we never used it. |
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Lyrics: | Pardon me, have you got the time to let me say hello? I couldn't help but see that you look like a lady I used to know a long time ago Remember the time we spent together Remember the days that went forever Remember the nights we stayed together Whatever I do I'll still remember It's hard to believe that I held her up and then she let me down It's all the same to me ... But she broke my heart and left me spinnin' round and round and round Remember the time we spent together Remember the days that went forever Remember the nights we stayed together Whatever I do I'll still remember | ||||||||||||
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