Jerry Orbach - Try to Remember [From the Fantasticks] (1962)

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Try to Remember is a song from the musical comedy The Fantasticks. It is the first song sung in the show, to get the audience to imagine what the sparse set suggests. Its lyrics, written by Tom Jones, famously rhyme "remember" with "September", "so tender", and "December." Harvey Schmidt composed the music.

Try to Remember was originally sung by Jerry Orbach in the Original Off Broadway production of The Fantasticks. "Try To Remember" made the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart three times in 1965 in versions by Ed Ames, Roger Williams and the The Brothers Four. However, in 1975, Gladys Knight & The Pips had a huge international hit with their version of "Try to Remember," combining it into a medley with a cover of Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were". It reached #11 on the Hot 100 chart. In Knight's version, she recited some of the lyrics from "Try To Remember" in spoken-word fashion before beginning to sing "The Way We Were." The Greek singer Nana Mouskouri also recorded it in three languages: German, French, and Italian.

Try to Remember was also used in the soundtrack of the film The Man Who Fell to Earth, the video game Chrono Trigger, and the Hong Kong film City of Glass (Boli zhi cheng).

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[skewlboypin]

yeah, great voice, and a looker...even when he wasw in Law&Order he was still kinda cute. Most guys don't have that kind of shelf life.

[jsabat28]

This was a really great tribute to Mr. Orbach.

Great job...

[jsbach15]

What an exceptional treat to see all these photos of Jerry's performance in the "FANTASTICKS" as well as other plays/musicals. Thanks very much for uploading. Always a favorite.

[crystalfer]

@PecanSandees23 TY for that .. I was wondering the same thing. I believe Julie Harris won that year for "Forty Carats"

[bslmbslm]

i love you jerry - made many things watchable

[jackpark7927]

Mrs. Gibson, my high school speech teacher, returned to school in the fall of '61 after a Broadway vacation and could not stop talking about a newcomer she'd seen in an off-Broadway musical called The Fantastiks. She said expected big things from him. As it turned out, Jerry became the Babe Ruth of the New York stage...more performances than any other actor.

[Mannypacquia0]

@Zen999the yeah absolutely he shouldve definitely gotten big after these theatre performances and also after his big stint on law and order. like big as in box office hollywood movies in theatres bigg.

[Dion1957]

I'm an actor and if I could have a a career like Jerry's I'd die a happy man.

[SueBeaWho]

He looks like he enjoyed life. I sure hope he did. And what a dashing fellow!

[lskarin]

Wow! Good find. I have the original recording and this rendition is better. By comparison, it was "stiff." There is at least one later Orbach rendition that is more "stylized" and I think inferior.

[Zen999the]

Thanks, John.

[Zen999the]

Wow!  Just stumbled into this. The most talented performer who never really got the fame he deserved?