Remember a Day

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Remember a Day is a Pink Floyd song from 1968, written and sung by Richard Wright. It appears on their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets, and has a dreamy, nostalgic feel about childhood.

The song was recorded in two sessions. In May 1967, Wright’s vocals, piano, and Farfisa organ were recorded. In October 1967 at De Lane Lea Studios in London, Syd Barrett played acoustic and slide guitar, and the bass and drums parts were added. The same sessions also produced Jugband Blues. During the recording, Nick Mason struggled to find the right drum part, so producer Norman Smith played the drums himself.

A rare United States single (Tower 440) paired Remember a Day with Let There Be More Light in mono, but it was never released as a UK single. An instrumental version of the studio track appeared in the film Remember a Day. In 1971 the song was released on the compilation Relics. A critic from Rolling Stone later described it as pleasant but with some influences that felt less like the band’s typical style.

Live history is brief. The song was performed only once as an encore in May 1968. On 23 September 2008, David Gilmour performed Remember a Day on Later... with Jools Holland as a tribute to Wright, who had died eight days earlier. This was the first time the song was played live since 1968 by any member of the band. Gilmour and Nick Mason later played it at Wright’s memorial service, and Mason has performed it with his band Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets. A version appears on their 2020 live album Live at the Roundhouse.