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Forget Me Nots

Name: Forget Me Nots
Duration: 4 min 45 s

Patrice Rushen

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Album: Straight from the Heart (Remastered)
Released: 1982
Genres: post-disco, jazz funk, disco, funk
Length: 4:45
Tempo: 114 BPM
Label: Strut

About this song

Forget Me Nots was Patrice Rushen's first and only Top 40 hit. VH1 ranked it #86 on its list of the 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 1980s. The song was sampled and referenced in Will Smith's 1997 hit movie tie-in Men In Black.

Fun facts

Sampled in 21 other songs, like “Fastlove by MNEK”.
Covered 5 times, including “Forget Me Nots by Marie Dahlstrøm (Ft. Jeremy Passion)”.
Written by Patrice Rushen, Freddie Washington and Terri McFaddin.
Produced by Charles Mims Jr. and Patrice Rushen.
Recorded at Conway Studios (Los Angeles).