Remember Me is a 1997 song by British DJ Alexis 'Lex' Blackmore under his pseudonym Blue Boy. It peaked at No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1997 and number two on the American dance chart. Additionally it peaked within the Top 10 in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. On the Eurochart Hot 100, the track reached number 13.
Background
The track originally appeared on Mark Farina's remix albumMushroom JazzVolume One. Jive Records got hold of it and earmarked it for single release. The radio edit was remixed by Sure Is Pure, who were also responsible for a remix of Lost in Music, and was released on the Pharm sublabel imprint. The track is built around samples from "Woman of the Ghetto" by Marlena Shaw: "Remember me? I'm the one who had your babies, I", in reference to African-American maids raising white children for little pay, came from a live version, whereas the "ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging..." sample repeated throughout the song is the scat portion of the original song's refrain. Shaw had the following to say about it:
Critical reception
from Billboard described the song as a "wickedly catchy dance anthem" and noted further that "while the groove is appropriately aggressive and street-credible, the song is iced with accessible keyboards, and a loopy hook takes up permanent residence in the brain upon impact." Australian music channelMax placed "Remember Me" at number 557 in their list of1000 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2012.
In late 2008, the Australian psychedelic rock bandTame Impala started performing this song as part of their live sets, eventually recording a cover version of it as a B-side to the "Sundown Syndrome" single. This cover became quite popular in Australia, reaching number 78 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2009. In late 2010, Gianni Luminati of Walk off the Earth released a song on YouTube, "Jammin' a Hammock", playing 3 instruments simultaneously, while lying in a hammock; it is an interpretation of this song. In November 2012, British musician Daley sampled this song for his own composition "Remember Me", with the refrain sung by Jessie J. In 2013, the South African group Goldfish sampled the song for their track Three Second Memory. TheSouthAfrican.com called the song "Where to start? Obviously the title track, which takes the vocal sample "Remember Me" and builds around it to a level which justifies its standing as the basis of the album."
