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"Sweet Memories" is a song by Mickey Newbury, brought to success by Andy Williams. The song reached number 4 on the adult contemporary chart and number 75 on the Billboard chart in 1968. [1] Willie Nelson recorded the most popular cover version.
Tellingly, one of the two covers songs on the album was “Sweet Memories,” a song composed by Mickey Newbury, a singer-songwriter who, like Nelson, would express dissatisfaction with his debut RCA album Harlequin Melodies and blaze a trail of independent recording in defiance of Nashville that would serve as a template for the Outlaw ...
Sweet Memories is an album by country artist Willie Nelson. [2] [3] It was released in 1979. [4] The album consisted of older songs produced with an added string ...
Sweet Memories may refer to: Sweet Memories, a 1911 silent short romantic drama film; Sweet Memories, a 1979 album by Willie Nelson; Sweet Memories, a 1985 album by Mickey Newbury; Sweet Memories (song), a 1968 single by Andy Williams, written by Mickey Newbury and covered by Willie Nelson "Sweet Memories", a 2002 single by Jade Anderson
"Memories" is a 1968 song originally recorded by Elvis Presley. It was written by Billy Strange and Mac Davis demo sang by Phil Johnson (Last Freight Train, Lying Cheating Stealing, Lonely One) specially for Presley to perform on Elvis , his comeback TV special that would air on NBC on December 3, 1968.
Although the album (as well as the UK version) was presented as the soundtrack to the film, only the four songs that actually appeared in the film are included here ("Having a Wild Weekend", "Catch Us If You Can", "Sweet Memories" and "On The Move"). The other songs from the film were already released on the band's previous albums. [3]
After the song's rise, the duo's previous single, "Love Is a Stranger", was re-released and also became a worldwide hit. On Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time issue in 2003, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" was ranked number 356. [8] In 2020, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [9]
Hopper wrote the song in the mid-1960s and it was originally recorded by his group The Wilde Flowers, although their versions were not released until many years later.The Wilde Flowers was a predecessor to the group Soft Machine, who also covered the song, as did associated artists Robert Wyatt (released as the B-side of his single "I'm a Believer" and on his compilation album Eps [2]), and by ...