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Song of the Day #5,735: ‘Don’t Forget Me’ – Maggie Rogers

I first learned about Maggie Rogers from my daughter Fiona, who loved the song ‘Dog Years’ back in the late 2010s.

I then watched the viral video of Pharrell Williams listening to her song ‘Alaska’ during an NYU class in 2016. It’s hard not to both appreciate her talent and root for her success after watching that gem.

Somehow, though, I’ve never taken the time to dig deeper into her music. She has released two studio albums and several EPs since 2017, plus two independently produced albums before that, but I haven’t listened to any of them.

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Song of the Day #5,296: ‘Don’t Forget Me’ – Harry Nilsson

The title cut from Lana Del Rey’s upcoming album, featured yesterday, includes this verse:

“Harry Nilsson has a song, his voice breaks at 2:05 / Something about the way he says “Don’t forget me” makes me feel like / I just wish I had a friend like him, someone to get me by / Lennon in the back, whisperin’ in my ear / “Come on, baby, you can thrive” / But I can’t”

The song she’s referencing is Nilsson’s ‘Don’t Forget Me,’ which appeared on the John Lennon-produced 1974 album Pussy Cats.

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Song of the Day #1,028: ‘Don’t Forget Me’ – Neko Case

Now here’s a song that I’d never heard before discovering it through this cover version. ‘Don’t Forget Me’ was originally written and recorded by Harry Nilsson for his 1974 album Pussy Cats.

That album was produced by John Lennon and features a wild cover of Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ as well as gentler fare like this. Apparently Nilsson and Lennon’s hard partying carried over into the studio and resulted in a wild, half-genius, half-WTF album.

Nilsson even ruptured a vocal cord during the sessions but kept it to himself, and you can hear his voice getting progressively more harsh through the record.

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