WEDNESDAY WRAP

CD SHOWCASE MEMORIES

REQUESTS: Please advise if…
…you are a member of a singing group or band & would like to be featured
…you would like me to feature a favorite song of yours not played on the radio

Ending today by listening to a pair of same name songs, Amy Grant’s “I Will Remember You” & Sarah McLachlan’s “I Will Remember You”, while checking under the hood of a Camaro, photographed by OC,SHer MEL K at the 11/07/2015 Pumpkin Run….

#1 “I Will Remember You” | Amy Grant
Originally released (after a remix) 03/31/1992 as the 7th & final single from her 12th album ‘Heart In Motion’, this song peaked at #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart & #20 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the 5th song from the album to be released to pop radio, & the 1st of those to not reach the BH 100 Top 10. Other hits from that album include “Good For Me”, “Baby Baby”, “Every Heartbeat” & “That’s What Love Is For”.

#2 “I Will Remember You” | Sarah McLachlan
3 years later, this song, written by McLachlan, Seamus Egan & Dave Merenda, 1st appeared on the soundtrack for the movie ‘The Brothers McMullen’. That version, also featured on her remix album ‘Rarities, B-Sides & Other Stuff’, managed #65 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart & #10 in Canada. The song was catapulted into greater popularity when she released a live version of it from her 1999 album ‘Mirrorball’; then, the song reached #14 on the BH 100, #3 on the Adult Contemporary, #2 on the Adult Top 40 & #10 on the Mainstream Top 40 charts. It also notched at #10 again in Canada. The live version earned her a 3rd straight Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Grammy nomination in 2000, behind 1998’s “Building A Mystery” & 1999’s “Adia”. “Building A Mystery” & “I Will Remember You” both won the Award.