| Field | Value |
|---|
| name | Don't Forget to Remember Me |
| cover | Don't_Forget_to_Remember_Me_Carrie_Underwood.jpg |
| border | yes |
| type | single |
| artist | Carrie Underwood |
| album | Some Hearts |
| released | March 13, 2006 |
| * The Plant Recording Studios (Sausalito, CA)<ref name | "LinerNotes" / |
| genre | |
| length | 4:00 (album version) |
| 3:14 (radio edit) |
| label | Arista Nashville |
| producer | Mark Bright |
| prev_title | Some Hearts |
| prev_year | 2005 |
| next_title | Before He Cheats |
| next_year | 2006 |
| misc | |
- Electrokitty Recording (Seattle, WA)
- Starstruck Studios (Nashville, TN)
- The Plant Recording Studios (Sausalito, CA)
3:14 (radio edit)
- Morgane Hayes
- Kelley Lovelace
- Ashley Gorley
"Don't Forget to Remember Me" is a song written by Morgane Hayes (now known as Morgane Stapleton), Kelley Lovelace and Ashley Gorley, and recorded by American country music artist Carrie Underwood. It was released in March 2006 as the third single from her debut studio album, Some Hearts. It is also her second release to country radio. The song peaked at number two on the Billboard country charts in early 2006, and number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100. It has sold 403,000 copies.
Content
Underwood tells a story of good-bye when she is ready to leave home after graduating high school. When she is ready to leave the house to move on with her life, her mother tells her not to forget her. Underwood has to accept the fact that now she is living all by herself as she relates in her lyrics.
Music video
In the music video, which was premiered on CMT on March 16, 2006. Underwood is shown walking off a bus and immediately signing autographs, as the song moves on Underwood, in her new house, has flashbacks of when she is loading up her Chevy with equipment and hugging her mother as she sings in the song "We were loading up that Chevy both tryin' not to cry." Underwood also sings while approaching a public telephone to call her mother and at the end of the music video she takes the stage and sings to an empty large auditorium. Underwood's mother appears in the video as herself.
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Some Hearts.
- Jim Van Cleve – fiddle
- J. T. Corenflos – electric guitar
- Eric Darken – percussion
- Morgane Hayes – background vocals
- Mike Johnson – steel guitar
- Steve Nathan – keyboards
- Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
- Adam Steffey – mandolin
- Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
- Lonnie Wilson – drums
Awards
2007 ASCAP Country Music Awards
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| 2007 || "Don't Forget to Remember Me" || Most Performed Song of the Year ||