“Memory” – Single by Barbra Streisand from the album Memories
B-side “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)”
Released February 1982
Label Columbia
Songwriters Andrew Lloyd Webber, T. S. Eliot, and Trevor Nunn
Producer Andrew Lloyd Webber
Charted No. 52 in US; No.34 in UK; No.30 in West Germany; No.1 in Finland; No.3 in Canada; No.6 in Sweden
“Memory” is a show tune composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Trevor Nunn based on poems by T. S. Eliot. It was written for the 1981 musical Cats, where it is sung primarily by the character Grizabella as a melancholic remembrance of her glamorous past and as a plea for acceptance.
Barbra Streisand recorded “Memory” (produced by Lloyd Webber himself) for her 1981 album Memories. When released as a single, Streisand’s cover reached No. 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 9 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart in 1982. In the UK this version peaked at No. 34 the same year. The cover was also used in the 2023 superhero film The Marvels.
