[net.music] Memories

wmartin@brl-vgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (04/04/84)

Every time I hear the song "Memories" from the musical CATS,
I could swear that the melody is some classical piece I have
heard in the past.  I looked at the sheet music and found no
reference to a classical piece, but it isn't unusual for melodies
to be transferred from classics to pop tunes. 

Does anyone else recognize this, and, if it is true, do they
know the classical piece the melody came from?

It nags at me every time I hear the song...

Will

gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) (04/09/84)

The name of the song is Memory, and it's not part of a classical piece
that I know of.  It probably sounds familiar to you because so many
people have covered it in the past two years.

Barbra Streisand
Barry Manilow (only one to take it into the top40)
Betty Buckley
Menage
-- 
                               Be ye moby,
                               for I am moby.

Greg-bo, Prince of Eternia
{decvax!genrad, eagle!mit-vax, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds