Forget Me Not (Martha and the Vandellas song)

""Forget Me Not""
Single by Martha and the Vandellas
from the album Riding High
A-side	"I Promise to Wait My Love"
Released	April 4, 1968
Format	7" single
Recorded	Hitsville USA; 1967-1968
Genre	R&B
Label	Gordy
Writer(s)	Richard Morris Sylvia Moy
Producer(s)	Richard Morris
Martha and the Vandellas singles chronology
"Honey Chile" (1967) "I Promise to Wait My Love /Forget Me Not" (1968) "I Can't Dance to That Music You're Playing" (1968)

"Forget Me Not" is a 1968 single by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas.^[1] Though the song failed to ignite charts in America barely hitting the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at #93 (it was the b-side to their hit, "I Promise to Wait My Love") and failing to chart on the US R&B charts (a rarity for the group),^[2] it became a big hit on the UK pop singles chart peaking at #11 (in March 1971) netting them their biggest UK hit in several years.^[3] The song displays the narrator promising her lover to not forget her love to him while he's "off to war". Though not loosely based on the Vietnam War, it had hints that the subject matter was about the war.

Credits

• Lead vocals by Martha Reeves
• Background vocals by The Andantes
• Written by Richard Morris and Sylvia Moy
• Produced by Richard Morris
• Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

References

1. The Complete Motown Singles Vol 8: 1968 [CD liner notes]. New York: Hip-O Select/Motown/Universal Records.
2. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/martha-the-vandellas-mn0001199135/awards
3. "UK Charts -Flying Pickets". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 11 October 2015.