Johnny Remember Me

"Johnny Remember Me" is a song first performed by John Leyton in 1961, backed by the Outlaws. It became a 1961 UK Singles Chart #1. Recounting the haunting – real or imagined – of a young man by his dead lover, the song is one of the most noted of the 'death ditties' that populated the pop charts in the early to mid-1960s. It is distinguished in particular by its eerie, echoing sound (a hallmark of its producer Joe Meek's production style) and by the ghostly, foreboding female wails that form its backing vocal, by Lissa Gray. Despite the line, "the girl I loved who died a year ago" being changed to the more vague "the girl I loved and lost a year ago", the song was banned by the BBC, along with many other 'death discs', which were popular at the time.