By:Alan O’Bryant · Source Recording: Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris (1987)Song details
Those memories of you still haunt me
Every night when I lay down
I'll always love you little darling
Until the day they lay me down
In dreams of you my body trembles
I wake up and call your name
But you're not there and I'm so lonesome
Without your love I'll go insane
I close my eyes and you're there with me
Your kiss I feel your face I see
It's not your lips now that drive me crazy
It's just your haunting memory
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By:Alan O'Bryant · Source Recording:Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris (1987)
“Those Memories of You” is a song of a love that will not let go. Its singer is haunted every night by the memory of the woman he loved; he trembles at her in his dreams, wakes calling her name, and, finding himself alone, swears he will love her until the day he is laid to rest. Her kiss and her face come back whenever he closes his eyes, and it is the memory, he says, more than her lips, that is driving him crazy.
Alan O’Bryant wrote it. He had moved to Nashville in 1974 and spent four years playing in James Monroe’s band, often on the same dates as Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys, and he was on banjo when Bill and James Monroe recorded the song on 8 February 1978 at Bradley’s Barn in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. Butch Robins also played banjo, with Bill Monroe on mandolin, James Monroe and Wayne Lewis on guitar, Kenny Baker and James Bryan on fiddle and Randy Davis on bass. It came out on the father-and-son album Together Again (MCA 2367) on 15 June 1978.
John Starling, formerly of the Seldom Scene, recorded it for his Sugar Hill album Waitin’ on a Southern Train, with Claire Lynch and O’Bryant singing harmony, and Pam Tillis released it as a single in 1986, reaching number 55 on the Billboard country chart. Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris recorded it for Trio (Warner Bros., 1987), Parton singing lead over Harris and Ronstadt, in a band that included Starling on rhythm guitar, Albert Lee on lead guitar, David Lindley on mandolin and Mark O’Connor on fiddle. Warner Bros. released it as a single on 31 August 1987, backed with “My Dear Companion”; it reached number five on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and number one on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. The Seldom Scene recorded it live for 15th Anniversary Celebration: Live at the Kennedy Center (Sugar Hill, 1988).
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