Remember Me (Diana Ross song)

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Remember Me (Diana Ross song) - Wikipedia

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"Remember Me"

Single by Diana Ross

from the album Surrender

B-side

"How About You"

Released

December 8, 1970

Recorded

1970

Studio

Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A) Detroit, Michigan

Genre

Soul

Length

3:39

Label

Motown

Songwriter(s)

Ashford & Simpson^[1]

Producer(s)

Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson

Diana Ross singles chronology

"Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
(1970)

"Remember Me"
(1970)

"Reach Out (I'll Be There)"
(1971)

"Remember Me" is a 1970 single recorded and released by singer Diana Ross on the Motown label and was included on her 1971 album Surrender. The song was released as the album's first single on December 8, 1970 by the label. It was written and produced by Ashford & Simpson. In the US, the song was Ross' third top forty pop hit within a year, peaking at number 16 on the Hot 100 chart and number 10 on the soul chart.^[2] It was also Diana Ross' third entry on the Easy Listening chart, where it went to number 20.^[3] It gave Diana her third gold single in a year and her third top 10 charting single in Cash Box, peaking at number eight.^[4] Overseas, "Remember Me" reached the top ten in the UK, where it reached number seven. It was the lead single from Ross' 1971 album, Surrender.

Overview

The song was written and produced by the Motown collaborators Ashford & Simpson. The song is written from the view of a spurned woman who requests that her ex-boyfriend remembers her for all the positive things she had brought to his life.

Personnel

Lead vocals by Diana Ross
Background vocals by Ashford & Simpson
Produced by Ashford & Simpson

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for "Remember Me"
Chart (1970–1971)	Peak position
Canada RPM Top Singles	9
UK^[5]	7
US Billboard Hot 100^[6]	16
US Billboard Adult Contemporary^[3]	20
US Billboard R&B/Soul^[2]	10
US Cash Box Top 100^[4]	8

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for "Remember Me"
Chart (1971)	Rank
UK^[7]	72
US (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)^[8]	133
US Cash Box Top 100^[9]	75

Cover version

Boys Town Gang recorded a medley of "Remember Me" together with "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" in 1981. The single was a No. 5 U.S. Dance hit and a top 20 hit in Belgium and the Netherlands. Kim Wilde covered "Remember Me" on her Snapshots album in 2011.

In 2020, Bon Harris of Nitzer Ebb did a cover of the song for his Songs From the Lemon Tree sessions, which was released on Youtube.^[10]

References

^ "secondhandsongs.com". secondhandsongs.com. Archived from the original on August 19, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 500.
^ ^a ^b Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–2001. Record Research. p. 210.
^ ^a ^b "Cash Box Top 100 2/13/71".
^ "Top 100 1971". top-source.info. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990. ISBN 0-89820-089-X
^ "Top 100 1971 - UK Music Charts". Uk-charts.top-source.info. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
^ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
^ "Top 100 Year End Charts: 1971". Cashbox Magazine. Archived from the original on 2012-07-25. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
^ "BON HARRIS Songs From The Lemon Tree - Episode 03". ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK. 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2024-07-28.

External links

Diana Ross - Remember Me on YouTube

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Discography Awards and nominations
Studio albums	Diana Ross (1970) Everything Is Everything (1970) Surrender (1971) Touch Me in the Morning (1973) Diana & Marvin (1973) Last Time I Saw Him (1973) Diana Ross (1976) Baby It's Me (1977) Ross (1978) The Boss (1979) Diana (1980) Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1981) Silk Electric (1982) Ross (1983) Swept Away (1984) Eaten Alive (1985) Red Hot Rhythm & Blues (1987) Workin' Overtime (1989) The Force Behind the Power (1991) A Very Special Season (1994) Take Me Higher (1995) Every Day Is a New Day (1999) Blue (2006) I Love You (2006) Diana Ross Sings Songs from The Wiz (rec. 1978, rel. 2015) Thank You (2021)
Compilations	Greatest Hits (1972) Diana Ross' Greatest Hits (1976) 20 Golden Greats (1979) To Love Again (1981) All the Great Hits (1981) Forever Diana: Musical Memoirs (1993) One Woman: The Ultimate Collection (1993) Diana Extended: The Remixes (1994) Voice of Love (1996) Love & Life: The Very Best of Diana Ross (2001) The Definitive Collection (2006) The Greatest (2011) Upside Down: The Collection (2012) Supertonic: Mixes (2020)
Live releases	Live at Caesars Palace (1974) An Evening with Diana Ross (1977) Greatest Hits Live (1989) Stolen Moments: The Lady Sings... Jazz and Blues (1993) Christmas in Vienna (1993)
Soundtrack albums	Diana! (1971) Lady Sings the Blues (1972) Mahogany (1975) The Wiz (1978) Endless Love (1981)
Video albums	Live in Central Park (2012) Paris 1968: Broadcast Archives (2013)
Singles	"Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)" "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" "Remember Me" "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" "Surrender" "I'm Still Waiting" "Good Morning Heartache" "Touch Me in the Morning" "You're a Special Part of Me" "Last Time I Saw Him" "My Mistake (Was to Love You)" "You Are Everything" "Don't Knock My Love" "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)" "Sorry Doesn't Always Make It Right" "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" "I Thought It Took a Little Time (But Today I Fell in Love)" "Love Hangover" "One Love in My Lifetime" "Gettin' Ready for Love" "Your Love Is So Good for Me" "You Got It" "Lovin', Livin' and Givin'" "Ease on Down the Road" "Pops, We Love You (A Tribute to Father)" "What You Gave Me" "The Boss" "No One Gets the Prize" "It's My House" "Upside Down" "I'm Coming Out" "My Old Piano" "It's My Turn" "One More Chance" "Cryin' My Heart Out for You" "Endless Love" "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" "Mirror, Mirror" "Work That Body" "Muscles" "So Close" "Pieces of Ice" "All of You" "Swept Away" "Touch by Touch" "Missing You" "Eaten Alive" "Chain Reaction" "Experience" "Dirty Looks" "If We Hold On Together" "Workin' Overtime" "This House" / "Paradise" "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" "Someday We'll Be Together" "Take Me Higher" "I Will Survive" "Not Over You Yet" "Goin' Back" "I've Got a Crush on You" "Thank You" "If the World Just Danced" "Turn Up the Sunshine"
Featured singles	"A Brand New Day" "We Are the World"
Tours and concerts	Super Bowl XXX halftime show (1996) Return to Love Tour (2000) I Love You Tour (2006–2008) More Today Than Yesterday: The Greatest Hits Tour (2010–2012) In the Name of Love Tour (2013–2017) The Essential Diana Ross: Some Memories Never Fade (2015–2017)
Related topics	The Supremes Rhonda Ross Kendrick (daughter) Tracee Ellis Ross (daughter) Evan Ross (son) Arne Næss Jr. (second husband) Arthur "T-Boy" Ross (brother) Diana Ross Playground Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5
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