Filed under: Country/Pop, Flashback Series | Tags: 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, A Place In The Sun, Aaron Neville, Billboard Hot 100, Flashback Series, Linda Ronstadt, Please Remember Me, Rodney Crowell, Tim McGraw, Will Jennings
“Please Remember Me” became Tim McGraw’s 9th non-consecutive number one hit and became his highest peaking solo hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1999; where it peaked at #10 on the chart. The song was co-written by Rodney Crowell and Will Jennings. The track was originally recorded by Crowell on his 1995 album Jewel Of The South. Crowell released the song as single in 1995 where it peaked at #69 on the Billboard country charts. Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt recorded this song as duet on Aaron’s 1997 album To Make Me Who I Am.
You can find Tim’s cover of “Please Remember Me” on his 1999 album A Place In the Sun and on his first Greatest Hits (my first album I got as a kid!),released in 2000. Although with all those greatest hits albums that have been released in the past year or two I’m sure you can find it on there as well. :D
Filed under: Flashback Series, Pop/Rock Music | Tags: 1995, 1996, Alanis Morissette, Flashback Series, Hand In My Pocket, Ironic, Jagged Little Pill, Top 40 Mainstream Chart, You Oughta Know
Alanis Morissette became a pop/rock icon in 1995 with her album Jagged 
Little Pill, which became the best debut album by a female artist in the U.S. and the 14th best selling album ever.
“Ironic” was released as the 4th single off the album, following up the success of “You Oughta Know” and “Hand In My Pocket”. “Ironic” would go on to be Morissette’s biggest hit in the U.S., becoming her first number one hit on the Top 40 Mainstream Chart.
Interesting Facts:
In 1996, the video won MTV Video Music Awards for Best Female Video, Best Editing, and Best New Artist In A Video.
Alanis has taken many hits from music critics about her take on irony. Years later she wrote about what she thinks about it: “For me the great debate on whether what I was saying in ‘Ironic’ was ironic wasn’t a traumatic debate. I’d always embraced the fact that every once in a while I’d be the malapropism queen. And when Glen and I were writing it, we definitely were not doggedly making sure that everything was technically ironic. It’s a testament to the fact that we didn’t think it was going to be put under the microscope by 30 million people. For me the sweetest moment came in New York when a woman came up to me in a record store and said, ‘So all those things in the ‘Ironic’ aren’t ironic.’ And then she said, ‘And that’s the irony.” I said, ‘Yup.’ To me it’s a real snapshot of a nineteen-year-old’s definition and version of how life worked at the time. All that ‘Ironic’ touches on spawned all my future inquiries into and current understandings of the mysteries of life.”
