Johnny Remember Me

Infobox Single
Name = Johnny Remember Me
Writer = Geoff Goddard


Artist = John Leyton
from Album =
B-side = "There Must Be" (Bob Duke)
Released = July 1961 (UK)
Recorded = RGM Sound: 1961
Format = 7"
Genre = Pop music
Length =
Label = EMI Top Rank JAR577(UK)
Producer = Joe Meek (R.G.M. Sound)
Reviews =
Last single = "The Girl On The Floor Above"
(1960)
This single = "Johnny Remember Me"
(1961)
Next single = "Wild Wind"
(1961)"Johnny Remember Me" Produced by the legendary Joe Meek, the song was a 1961 UK #1 hit single for John Leyton, backed by The Outlaws. It was Meek's first #1 production. Recounting the haunting - real or imagined - of a young man by his dead lover, the song is one of the most noted of the 'death ditties' that populated the transatlantic pop charts in the early to mid 1960s. It is distinguished in particular by its eerie, echoing sound (a hallmark of the Joe Meek production style) and by the ghostly, foreboding female wails that form its backing vocal (by Lissa Gray). The recording was arranged by Charles Blackwell.