Song 114 - Thank you for the memory by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin

It has been over a week since I posted a song for a day an for those who are reading this daily, please accept my apology for someone very near and dear to me pass away last week and despite having draft blogs prepared; I didn't feel like posting any music. It seems very fitting to be picking this blog back up with the track "Thanks for the Memory" as I have spent the last week thinking how lucky I was to have this person in my life and how much her passion for music inspired my own.

Written in 1938 by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin, the song was introduced in the film The Broadcast of 1938. In the film it is sang by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross, who sing it as a divorced couple who encounter each other aboard a ship. Near the end of the film they poignantly sing one of the many versions of the song, recalling the ups and downs of their relationship. As well as winning the Oscar, the tune would become a theme tune of Hope's.

It is often said that this tune is a companion piece to Two Sleepy People, which was written by Frank Loesser and performed again by Hope and Ross in the 1939 film, Thanks for the memory. A film which was inspired by the original song.

To hear the song,

Thanks for the Memory sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross

Oscar for Best Song: 1938
Song title: Thanks for the memory
Written by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin