![]() ![]() And, if you have spent any length of time in your relationship, I bet it will resonate with you too. Now, years later and 26 years into my own love affair, I too understand the meaning. As they swayed back and forth with one another, they seemed keenly aware of what Willie’s song meant. My grandma would be doing the dishes, and my grandpa would come up behind her, grab her waist and take her in his arms. One of my favorite memories was watching them dance in the kitchen with Willie Nelson on the stereo singing You Were Always on My Mind. ![]() They by no means had it all together, but there was never a time I didn’t witness affection between them and genuine care for one another. Finances were tight sometimes and days were long, but their hearts were big, which made the troubles small. Oh, I know they had worries, tensions, and family discord. They loved each other well and laughed a lot. But it was their relationship I remember most. Much of my childhood was spent with them in that place making precious memories I have tucked away. Years later my grandparents went back and rented a cabin on the same lake until fate would have it that they were able to buy the log cabin. The family lore goes that my grandpa, as a young boy attending Boy Scout camp, watched builders create that very cabin with the trees from the property. Many of those years were spent in a beautiful log cabin in northern Minnesota. Once he returned, in the words of Johnny and June Cash, they got “married in a fever” and began a 60-year life together anchored in love. ![]() They met in 1941 shortly before my grandpa, a naval aviator, left for WWII. Scenes from the band's movie release, ' It Couldn't Happen Here' and featuring actor Joss Ackland as the spooky murderer.My grandparents had an epic romance. Joss Ackland as the spooky killer, from Always On My Mind video It was actually written by the little-known team of Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Carson Thompson, originally for Brenda Lee. An apparently common misconception is that the song was written by Willie Nelson, whose 1982 recording was the biggest US hit version of the song.Interviewed for the book (or more precisely, for the newpaper column on which it was based), Neil Tennant notes that the song's lyrical perspective is "a typical country music sentiment, really - that the man should be a bastard." Pet Shop Boys' version of the song is one of several mentioned in the 1994 book Lives of the Great Songs.In the book Pet Shop Boys, Literally, Chris Heath recounts an incident in which TV presenter/producer Janet Street Porter raved about their performance on the "Love Me Tender" show and suggested they should release the song as a single - being completely unaware that they in fact had, and that it had been the 1987 Christmas number one.Joss Ackland, who appears in the movie ' It Couldn't Happen Here' also is heard on the tail end of the Extended Dance Version of this track.Neil changed the lyrics from "Maybe I didn't treat you / Quite as good as I should have ', taking out the have to make it more ungrammatical.The band was going to release this track as the b-side to ' Rent' but were convinced that it should be its own single.In 1988, a different version of the song (not quite the same as Harding's arrangement, but based on it) was released on the Introspective album, which follows the 'in my house' section with a two-stanza rap by Neil. The Phil Harding remix has a section where the lyrics of the chorus change to 'You were always on my mind / You were always in my house.' followed by a breakdown section. Their first choice was 'Baby Let's Play House'. The band originally performed this song on a television program called 'Love Me Tender', a tribute to Elvis Presley. Some special limited releases of Actually contained a bonus 'Always On My Mind' single, due to fan disappointment that the song wasn't a part of the album. In fact the single liner notes contained the phrase, "not from the album, actually.' It was released following ' Rent' and before ' Heart'. 'Always On My Mind' was released during the promotional period of the ' Actually' album, although the track was not on featured on the record. Always On My Mind is the ninth single released by the band. ![]()
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