Please Remember Me

"Please Remember Me" is a song co-written by American country music artists Rodney Crowell and Will Jennings. Originally recorded by Crowell on his 1995 album Jewel of the South, his version was released as a single that year. Crowell's version of the song peaked at number 69 on the Billboard country charts upon its release. A later version was released by Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt, but was not released as a single.^[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1995)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^{[ 1]}	69

Tim McGraw version

"Please Remember Me"

Single by Tim McGraw

from the album A Place in the Sun

B-side

For a Little While

Released

March 22, 1999

Format

CD single

Genre

Country, country pop

Length

4:55

Label

Curb

Writer(s)

Rodney Crowell
Will Jennings

Producer(s)

Byron Gallimore
Tim McGraw
James Stroud

Tim McGraw singles chronology

"For a Little While"
(1998)

"Please Remember Me"
(1999)

"Something Like That"
(1999)

Four years after the release of his own version, Crowell selected several songs which he recommended to record producer Byron Gallimore. Eventually, "Please Remember Me" made its way to Tim McGraw, who recorded it for his 1999 album A Place in the Sun. Released that year as the first single from that album, McGraw's rendition reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, a position that it held for five weeks. The song was also McGraw's biggest solo hit on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number 10.

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a "lush and lovely ballad." She goes on to say that he is "surprisingly effective" on this pop-side release as he is usually best with traditional material. She finishes the review by saying that McGraw "seems to a newfound vocal maturity."^[2] Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song an A grade, calling it "a lush and gorgeous ballad that is elevated by a Patty Loveless harmony vocal." He goes on to say that McGraw's "pleading performance gives the song its urgency, and the pop-flavored production, complete with strings, harkens back to the glory days of the Nashville sound."^[3] The song ranks 96th on the RIAA 365 songs of the century list

Track listing

UK Promo CD

Please Remember Me 3:39

Cassette Single

A Please Remember Me 4:29
B For A Little While 3:33

US Single

Please Remember Me 4:29
For A Little While 3:33

Chart performance

"Please Remember Me" debuted at number 51 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Single & Tracks for the week of March 20, 1999.

Chart (1999)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^{[ 1]}	1
US Billboard Hot 100^{[ 1]}	10
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^{[ 1]}	1

End of year charts

Chart (1999)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[4]	35
US Billboard Hot 100^[5]	56
US Country Songs (Billboard^[6]	5

Covers

The Swedish country music-inspired dansband Lasse Stefanz recorded a Swedish version called "Tänk På Mig Ibland" on their 1996 album Dig Ska Jag Älskar.

It was covered by John Barrowman on his 2007 album Another Side.

American Idol season 10 winner Scotty McCreery covered this song to be used as the goodbye/exit song on the 11th season of American Idol. It was released on March 8, 2012.^[7]

Performed by Danielle Bradbery on Season 4 of The Voice, Released: Jun 11, 2013.^[8]

References

↑ Shuster, Fred (1999-06-06). "For McGraw, it starts with 1000s of songs". The (Los Angeles) Daily News. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
↑ Billboard, March 27, 1999
↑ CountryUniverse.net Song review
↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1999". RPM. December 13, 1999. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
↑ "Billboard Top 100 - 1999". Retrieved 2010-08-28.
↑ "Best of 1999: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1999. Retrieved August 25, 2012.
↑ http://www.mjsbigblog.com/scotty-mccreery-sings-american-idol-11-exit-song-please-remember-me-snip.htm
↑ https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/please-remember-me-voice-performance/id660069230

External links

Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Preceded by "Wish You Were Here" by Mark Wills	Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number-one single May 15–June 12, 1999	Succeeded by "Write This Down" by George Strait
Preceded by "Drive Me Wild" by Sawyer Brown	RPM Country Tracks number-one single May 10-May 17, 1999	Succeeded by "Anyone Else" by Collin Raye
Preceded by "Don't You (Forget About Me)" by David Cook	American Idol Farewell Song Season 11 (2012)	Succeeded by "Gone, Gone Gone" by Phillip Phillips

v t e Rodney Crowell

Studio albums	Ain't Living Long Like This But What Will the Neighbors Think Rodney Crowell Street Language Diamonds & Dirt Keys to the Highway Life Is Messy Let the Picture Paint Itself Jewel of the South The Houston Kid Fate's Right Hand The Outsider Sex & Gasoline Old Yellow Moon (with Emmylou Harris) Tarpaper Sky

Compilation albums	The Rodney Crowell Collection Greatest Hits Soul Searchin' Super Hits The Essential Rodney Crowell The Platinum Collection The Very Best of Rodney Crowell

Singles	"Elvira" "(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I" "Ashes by Now" "Ain't No Money" "Stars on the Water" "Victim or a Fool" "When I'm Free Again" "It's Such a Small World" (with Rosanne Cash) "I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried" "She's Crazy for Leavin'" "After All This Time" "Above and Beyond" "Many a Long and Lonesome Highway" "If Looks Could Kill" "My Past Is Present" "Now That We're Alone" "Lovin' All Night" "What Kind of Love" "Please Remember Me" "I Walk the Line Revisited"

Other songs	"The Answer Is Yes" "Heartbroke" "I Ain't Living Long Like This" "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight" "Making Memories of Us" "Queen of Hearts" "Song for the Life" "Voilá, An American Dream"

Related articles	Discography Warner Bros. Records Columbia Records MCA Records Roy Orbison The Notorious Cherry Bombs The Notorious Cherry Bombs Emmylou Harris

v t e Tim McGraw singles

Discography

Tim McGraw	"Welcome to the Club" "Memory Lane" "Two Steppin' Mind"

Not a Moment Too Soon	"Indian Outlaw" "Don't Take the Girl" "Down on the Farm" "Not a Moment Too Soon" "Refried Dreams"

All I Want	"I Like It, I Love It" "Can't Be Really Gone" "All I Want Is a Life" "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" "Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It"

Everywhere	"It's Your Love" (with Faith Hill) "Everywhere" "Just to See You Smile" "One of These Days" "Where the Green Grass Grows" "For a Little While"

A Place in the Sun	"Please Remember Me" "Something Like That" "My Best Friend" "Some Things Never Change" "My Next Thirty Years"

Set This Circus Down	"Grown Men Don't Cry" "Angry All the Time" "The Cowboy in Me" "Unbroken"

Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors	"Red Rag Top" "Tiny Dancer" "She's My Kind of Rain" "Real Good Man" "Watch the Wind Blow By"

Live Like You Were Dying	"Live Like You Were Dying" "Back When" "Drugs or Jesus" "Do You Want Fries with That" "My Old Friend"

Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2	"When the Stars Go Blue" "My Little Girl"

Let It Go	"Last Dollar (Fly Away)" "I Need You" (with Faith Hill) "If You're Reading This" "Suspicions" "Kristofferson" "Let It Go" "Nothin' to Die For"

Southern Voice	"It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You" "Southern Voice" "Still"

Number One Hits	"Felt Good on My Lips"

Country Strong soundtrack	"Me and Tennessee" (with Gwyneth Paltrow)

Emotional Traffic	"Better Than I Used to Be" "Right Back Atcha Babe"

Two Lanes of Freedom	"Truck Yeah" "One of Those Nights" "Highway Don't Care" (with Taylor Swift) "Southern Girl"

Tim McGraw & Friends	"Twisted" (with Colt Ford)

TBD	"Lookin' for That Girl"

Guest singles	"Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me" (with Faith Hill) "Let's Make Love" (with Faith Hill) "Bring On the Rain" (with Jo Dee Messina) "Over and Over" (with Nelly) "Like We Never Loved at All" (with Faith Hill) "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" (with Tracy Lawrence and Kenny Chesney) "Nine Lives" (with Def Leppard) "Feel Like a Rock Star" (with Kenny Chesney)

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