"Try Me" is a song originally recorded by English singer
Lolita
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, written by Hinoky Team with production from Italian producer
Dave Rodgers.
Avex Trax released the song on 21 December 1994 as Lolita's first and only single from the album of the same name. A month later, Japanese girl group
Namie Amuro with Super Monkey's recorded their own rendition of the track, subtitled .
The song with a new track called "Memories (Ashita no Tame ni)" was released as the fifth single overall from the group. It peaked to number 8 on the
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...
chart, marking their highest-charted song at the time, selling 733,000 copies in the country. The group performed the track at the
37th Japan Record Awards
The 37th Annual Japan Record Awards took place on December 31, 1995, starting at 6:30PM JST. The primary ceremonies were televised in Japan on TBS.
Award winners
*Japan Record Award:
**Tetsuya Komuro (producer) & trf for "Overnight Sensation"
* ...
.
The song later made its appearance on Amuro's commercial for the sportswear brand Minami in the same year.
Release
"Memories (Ashita no Tame ni)" is a translation from Norma Sheffield's "Memories".
The song later appeared on two of Amuro's
compilation
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**Compilation unit
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*Compilation thesis
M ...
s ''
Original Tracks Vol.1'' and ''
181920
''181920'' (pronounced: “one-eight-one-nine-two-zero”) is the first greatest hits album by Japanese musician Namie Amuro, released under the Avex Trax label on January 28, 1998. The album commemorates Amuro’s marriage and pregnancy, and cov ...
''. A new mix with the extended version of the song appeared on Amuro's first
studio album
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Dance Tracks Vol. 1
''Dance Tracks Vol.1'' is Namie Amuro's debut studio album and only release through Toshiba-EMI. Nine days after ''Dance Tracks Vol.1'' hit stores, she released her first single with Avex Trax, "Body Feels Exit" on 25 October 1995. The album rea ...
'' (1995).
The single reached #8 on the weekly Oricon charts and charted for 25 weeks. It sold 732,950 copies, becoming the #45 single of 1995.
Live performances
Track listing
{{Super Monkey's
Super Monkey's songs
1995 singles
Black-and-white music videos