I Remember You (jazz standard)

I Remember You is a jazz standard from 1942 with music by Victor Schertzinger and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra recorded the song for Decca on 10 december 1941. In January 1942 it was introduced in the film The fleet's In, sung by Dorothy Lamour, in harmony with Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell, and with the Jimmy DorseyOrchestra. Schertzinger, who additionally wrote the other songs, was also the Director of the film. According to the TCM documentary Johnny Mercer: The dream's On Me, Mercer would have written the song for Judy Garland, on whom he was in love. He gave it to her the day after she married David Rose. Some famous renditions of I Remember You are those of Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook, on Chet BakerSings and Plays on and Charlie Parker's recording for the Savoy label in 1948. ==Well-known recordings[ Edit] == ===Radio 2 Top 2000[ Edit] ===
 * Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings and Plays With Bud Shank, Russ Freeman and Strings (1955)
 * The Beatles - Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 (1977)
 * Tony Bennett - The Art of Romance (2004)
 * Björk Guðmundsdóttir- Venus as a Boy " single (1993)
 * June Christy - The Song Is June! (1958)
 * Doris Day - Day By Day (1956)
 * John Denver - One World (1986)
 * Tal Farlow - Jazz Masters 41
 * Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook (1964)
 * Four Freshmen - Four Freshmen And Five Trombones (1955)
 * Art Garfunkel - Some Enchanted Evening (2007)
 * Lee Konitz - Motion (1961)
 * Diana Krall - The Look of Love (2001)
 * Frank Ifield (1962)
 * Shaun Micallef - His Generation (2009)
 * George Michael - Songs from the Last Century (1999)
 * James Caan & Bette Midler - For the Boys (1991)
 * Sue Raney - When Your Lover Has Gone (1958)
 * Jeri Southern - The Very Thought Of You: The Decca Year, 1951-1957
 * The Super Jazz Big Band or Birmingham (2001)
 * Sarah Vaughan - Snowbound (1963), Live in Japan (1973)
 * Dinah Washington - What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! (1959)
 * Slim Whitman - Traveling Man (1966)