Talk:Memory (Cats song)

message: Please note my temp stub.  Note to future editors: DO NOT make a song article merely a recapitulation of its lyrics, or include more of them than can be considered to be "fair use" (eight bars), or the article will merely be removed again as a copyvio.  Rlquall 01:22, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lyrics 

message: I'd like to see some information about why there are 2 different versions of the lyrics to Memory. The version on the full soundtrack album is different from the version in the highlights album and on the verious "Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber" CDs - the latter is the version that most people know. I'm assuming that this is because the song was positioned as a "single" for marketing purposes to promote the musical - after all, the version on the soundtrack album has some dialogue mixed in, so I can see why that would be taken out. But I don't see why the lyrics were changed so much. Any information?  -Jaclyn 2 Mar 2006
: there are two main reasons. One is that Memory is reprised several times in the show, calling for different lyrics for each. The second is that ALW originally asked Tim Rice to write the lyrics, which he did. ALW chose to use Nunn's lyrics instead of Rice's, but Rice's lyrics are still known and sometimes sung outside the show.
It would help to have the lyrics here for the comparison of TS Eliots original poems- and also Rice's lyrics -- also an explanation of what Puccini work it sounds familiar to --- it sounds vaguely familiar something from La boheme but I cannot put my finger on it  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.163.0.44 (talk) 16:22, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two versions of the lyrics? 

message: I heard somewhere that Andrew Lloyd Webber lifted the main melodic line of "Memory" from the second movement, titled "Gorgeous Pilot House", of the Mark Twain Suite by Jerome Kern.  Can anyone find anything on this? - 209.86.226.56 (talk) 10:57, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Melody 

message: ' "Memory", often incorrectly called "Memories" '
Is it? It doesn't seem to me that it's routinely misnamed.
Notreallydavid (talk) 08:39, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, at least i got the same impression/experience. --Kmhkmh (talk) 08:35, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening sentence 

message: Since this is a song from musical i think the cover section should be restructured to separate between actual (notable) covers by well known artists outside the outside the musical and the performers of the song in the London/West End and New York/Broadway casts (plus possible from other particularly known casts). The latter aren't really cover versions to begin with.--Kmhkmh (talk) 08:35, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: cover versions

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The source for this is from the year 2006 which I would claim makes it outdated. Óli Gneisti (talk) 12:55, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "... most successful song ever from a musical."