MU106 Great Composers
Sixties British Songwriters
"Johnny Remember Me"
Songwriter: Geoff Goddard
Publisher(s): Peer Music Ltd.
Musicians: Johnny Leyton (vocals) with the Outlaws: Bobby Graham (drums), Billy Kuy (guitar), Reg Hawkins (guitar), and Chas Hodges (bass) with Charles Blackwell (piano) and Lissa Grey (backup vocals).
YouTube: Johnny Leyton miming on television
Date of Recording:
Location of Recording: RGM Sound, Holloway Road, North London
Date of Release: July 1961
Label and Number: Top Rank JAR 577
Charts: 3 August 1961; UK #1
Producer: Joe Meek
Music Director / Arranger: Charles Blackwell
Engineer(s): Joe Meek
Other Information:
Lyrics
a. When the mist's a-rising and the rain is falling and the wind is blowing cold
across the moor,
I hear the voice of my darlin', the girl I loved and lost a year ago.
b. Johnny remember me.
c. Well it's hard to believe I know, but I hear her singing in the sighing of the
wind,
Blowin' in the tree tops way above me.
d. Yes I'll always remember 'til the day I die, I'll hear her cry... Johnny remember me.
e. Well some day I guess I'll find myself another little girl to take the place of my true love.
f. But as long as I live I know I'll hear her singing in the sighing of the wind,
Blowin' in the tree tops way above me.
Form
| Section | Meas. | Text | Description |
| intro | -- | ||
| verse 1 | a | ||
| refrain | b | ||
| verse 2 | c | ||
| refrain | b | ||
| chorus | d | ||
| verse 3 | -- | instrumental with vocalise | |
| verse 1* | e | the first half of the music for verse 1 | |
| verse 2 | f | ||
| refrain | b | ||
| chorus* | d | Revised chorus material with new ending | |
| refrain* | b | Refrain vocal material against altered accompaniment |