This song is actually a compilation of two songs, The Way We Were, originally sung by Barbra Streisand, and Try To Remember, originally sung by just about everybody, including Gladys Knight.
I hope you don’t mind if I just give you the music tonight, sans background trivia, for I am simply exhausted and cannot go digging tonight. I do like the song, though, and love the way she sings it, so sit back, relax, and just listen …
The Way We Were – Try To Remember
Gladys Knight
Memories light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories of the way we were
Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another for the way we were
Can it be that it was all so simple then
Or has time rewritten every line
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we?
Could we?
Memories may be beautiful and yet
What’s too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
So it’s the laughter we will remember
Whenever we remember
The way we were
The way we were
Songwriters: Alan Bergman / Marilyn Bergman / Marvin Hamlisch
The Way We Were – Try To Remember lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Beautiful!
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Thanks … I’m so happy you liked it!
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You’re welcome, Jill!
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Very nice rendition, still partial to Streisand, both elegantly sung. 🙂
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Another version I had never heard before. Very beautiful. So I played Midnight Train to Georgia too. I want to go back to a simpler place and time, the 60s, when we celebrated love despite all the hate around us. We knew we could overcome. Then shit happened.
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I so fully agree … I want a ‘do-over’! We thought times were tough then, but little did we know. As you say, “shit happened” and the world will never be the same again.
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Whist I love Barbra Streisand this is my favourite recording of this song. Gladys sings with real warmth and I need that.
Cwtch.
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Like you, I love Streisand, and I like her version of this, but I like Gladys’ better … it has soul.
Cwtch
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No worries!!!! Thank you for posting the music! Great choices!!!! 💙
HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!!!!
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I’m so glad you liked it, and Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you, too, my friend! Watch out for that green beer! 😉
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That’s beautiful. Thanks again for sharing, Jill. 🙂 — Suzanne
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I’m so glad you liked it!!!
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