hypersongs

Just Remember I Love You

The July 1977 single, a top 11 hit and number 1 on adult contemporary.
Firefall, from Luna Sea (1977)

Rick Roberts wrote it. The single, Atlantic 3420, came out on July 21, 1977 with "Just Think" on the B-side, produced by Jim Mason; the length is 3:16 on the single infobox and 3:14 on that page's track list. Timothy B. Schmit sings backing vocals. It reached 11 on the Hot 100 in the week of November 19, 1977, 1 on adult contemporary, 9 on Cash Box and 6 in Canada. The Songfacts editor reads it as addressed to someone chronically depressed and hopeless, which is not Roberts's reading; Bartley told Songfacts that Roberts wrote a lot of songs as a formula aimed at radio, unlike Burnett's darker, more personal writing, and told Vintage Rock that fans say they got married to it. We found no comment from Roberts on the song.

Setlist.fm lists 142 plays by Firefall, their most played song, ahead of "You Are the Woman" (141) and "Strange Way" (137). The earliest recorded is July 28, 1976, at the Mississippi River Festival at SIU Edwardsville, before the album existed, and the most recent on October 24, 2026 at the Genesee Theatre in Waukegan. Barry Manilow recorded it on Summer of '78 (1996). We found no video, and cannot say whether our upload is the studio single or a live recording.

On stage

  • 1976-07-28, Mississippi River Festival, SIU Edwardsville Earliest recorded performance.

Covers and versions

  • Barry Manilow (1996) On Summer of '78.

Sources

  1. Just Remember I Love You, Wikipedia
  2. Just Remember I Love You by Firefall, Songfacts
  3. The Jock Bartley (Firefall) interview, Vintage Rock (2013)
  4. Firefall song statistics, setlist.fm