“Moments to Remember” is a 1955 popular song about nostalgia recorded by Canadian quartet The Four Lads. The song was originally written by Robert Allen and Al Stillman for Perry Como but was turned down by Como’s management.
The Four Lads recorded it in June 1955 for Columbia Records as the B side to the single “Dream On, My Love.” Bernie Toorish of the Four Lads credited the enthusiastic endorsement of Cleveland radio DJ Bill Randle for increasing radio airtime play and popularizing the recording. It eventually reached number 2 on Billboard magazine’s Top 100 hit list (an early version of the Hot 100), sold 4 million copies and became the group’s first gold record. Besides the voices of the male quartet, the song also contains two uncredited female parts. According to the Four Lads’ Frank Busseri, the introductory verse, (“January through December/We’ll have moments to remember”), as well as the repeat of the Bridge section in harmony, (“When summer turns to winter”,) were sung by Lois Winters of the Ray Charles Singers and the poetic spoken words in mid-song: (“A drive-in movie/Where we’d go/And somehow never watched the show/”) were recited by Pat Kirby who at that time was a singer on Steve Allen’s television show Tonight!.[
Songs with Banjo from Harold Hagler
