Songofthday 9/21/21 - The days keep coming without fail a new wind is gonna find your sail, that's where your journey starts...

 

 

"Please Remember Me" - Tim McGraw

from the album A Place In The Sun (1999)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 16

 

Today's song is from country music singer Tim McGraw, who made the Billboard magazine pop Hot 100 top-40 with the first single from his fourth album Everywhere, "It's Your Love" with wife Faith Hill, as well as the sixth single "For A Little While". The former had massive sales that helped it into the top ten, while the latter benefited from Billboard changing its rules to allow non-retail singles to make the chart. In the spring of 1999, McGraw returned with the lead single from his upcoming fifth release, A Place In The Sun. "Please Remember Me" was originally released by Rodney Crowell, who wrote the song with Will Jennings. It was a minor hit on country radio, peaking at #69 in 1995. 

McGraw's version, produced by Byron Gallimore and James Stroud, overcomes the sterility of the production on Crowell's original. Tim may not have the jaded delivery of Rodney, but his haunted vocals really capture the words to great effect. The result is Tim embodying the young man whose love left him and he can't get over them, but still realizes they will find better. The track truly completed McGraw's evolution as an interpreter of material, and the public responded favorably...

McGraw's "Please Remember Me" became his second (and so far last) top ten pop hit in America in May of 1999. The song was massive on country radio, spending five weeks at #1 on Billboard's Country Singles chart. Internationally, the single also topped the Canadian country chart. The A Place In The Sun album, released as the single was peaking in May, scored Tim's second #1 album on the Billboard 200, going on to sell over three million copies, and was his fourth consecutive #1 on the Country Albums list. At the Grammy Awards in 2000, "Please Remember Me" was nominated for Best Male Solo Country Vocal Performance, which veteran George Jones won that year with "Choices". Both Tim and the album will be back to the series.

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Here's Tim performing "Please Remember Me" live in 1999...

 

 

and lastly, at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in 2003, performing "Please Remember Me" and "It Wasn't His Child"...

 

 Up tomorrow: R&B group have some Faith in their second top-40 pop hit.