Try to Remember

It is the first song performed in the show, encouraging the audience to imagine what the sparse set suggests.

The words were written by the American lyricist Tom Jones while Harvey Schmidt composed the music.

"Try to Remember" was sung by Jerry Orbach in the original off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks.

In 1965, Ed Ames, Roger Williams and The Brothers Four made the Billboard Hot 100 with versions of the song.

For Knight's version, she recited some of the lyrics from "Try To Remember" in spoken-word fashion before beginning to sing "The Way We Were".