Thanks for the memory

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Thanks for the memory
Bob Hope and Shirley Ross with Shep Fields and His Orchestra
publication 1938
length 4:16
Genre (s) Movie song
text Leo Robin
music Ralph Rainger
Publisher (s) Paramount Music
Award (s) Oscar
# 170 of Songs of the Century
album Soundtrack to the film The Big Broadcast of 1938

Thanks for the Memory is an American song by Ralph Rainger (music) and Leo Robin (lyrics).

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Thanks for the Memory was written by Rainger and Robin for the film The Big Broadcast of 1938 . The film version was recorded by Shep Fields and His Orchestra and sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross .

In the film, the two played a married couple who are about to divorce . Towards the end of the movie, they sing this song, which is about the ups and downs of their relationship. The two describe vacation trips together, arguments, gifts they gave each other, each other's mistakes, but also good moments. Every enumeration of these moments and thus almost every stanza is introduced by the phrase "Thanks for the Memory" (Eng. "Thank you for this memory"). This mutually reassures each other that ultimately every memory, whether good or bad, was important and correct and that you can now part as a seasoned couple without a fight. In fact, the couple stays together in the film afterwards.

The song won an Oscar for Best Song at the Academy Awards in 1939 . Hope then used the song as a signature tune , which he applied with changed lyrics in many different situations.

The song is often compared to Two Sleepy People , which is also sung by Hope and Ross. The title comes from the film Thanks for the Memory , which named itself after the song to build on its success. Two Sleepy People , however, was written by Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser .

Cover versions

The song was very popular in the late 1930s / early 1940s. A first cover came from Dorothy Lamour , who also starred in The Big Broadcast of 1938 . Many then thought that she would have been Hope's duet partner. Other cover versions were:

In the field of jazz , the song was also interpreted by Mildred Bailey , Ray Brown , Serge Chaloff , Erroll Garner , Rebecca Kilgore , Lee Konitz , Dave McKenna and by Anita O'Day / Cal Tjader .

Parodies

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Roberts: British Hit Singles & Albums , 19th. Edition, Guinness World Records Limited, London 2006, ISBN 1-904994-10-5 , p. 134.
  2. ^ William H. Young, Nancy K. Young: Music of the Great Depression . 2005, ISBN 978-0-313-33230-2 , pp. 58 .
  3. See Bielefeld catalog 1985 and 2003 as well as information on the song at Jazzstandards.com