Try to Remember
Try to Remember is a song from the musical comedy The Fantasticks. It is the first song sung in the show, to get the audience to imagine what the sparse set suggests. Its lyrics, written by Tom Jones, rhyme "remember" with "September", "so tender", and "December." Harvey Schmidt composed the music.
The song made the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart three times in 1965. In 1975, Gladys Knight & The Pips had a huge international hit with their version of Try to Remember, combining it into a medley with a cover of Barbra Streisand's The Way We Were. It reached #11 on the Hot 100 chart. The Greek singer Nana Mouskouri recorded it in German, French, and Italian.
Tutorials
At Tempo (May 2009)
At Tempo, then Slow (May 2010)
