据说，直到首映式的曰期都已经很接近的时候，拿恩仍对剧里的歌不满意。他觉得整部剧的高潮部份不够强烈，应该有更富有感情，更能让观众投入的乐曲。韦伯起先并不愿意，但还是回家重新开始编曲，而且他告诉导演拿恩，不要抱太大的希望。那一晚韦伯回家之后，花了整整一个晚上，写出了一个曲子。第二天早上，韦伯在排练室的钢琴上给拿恩弹奏了他整晚的杰作。拿恩听完后，对旁边的人说："我请你们记住现在的曰子和时间。因为你们现在听到的，就是下一个能称为传奇的乐曲。"
这个曲子，就是后来在音乐剧史上流传得最广的《回忆》。
可是在当时，她还只是一个旋律，根本没有歌词。和其他的《猫》歌不同，《回忆》并不是根据已有的诗编写的，也没有其他可以套用的诗。拿恩找了三位词作家编写《回忆》，仍没有得到满意的歌词。那时直到离首映只有几天了，拿恩回到他在乡下的别墅，决定由自己来写《回忆》的歌词。他花了整整一个星期的时间重新读过艾略特的诗集，借用了《风夜狂想曲》和《Grizabella，魅美的猫》作线索，不但写出了动人心旋的《回忆》，也更明确了整部《猫》的主题。魅美的猫Grizabella成为《猫》的感情出口，她在《回忆》里表白了她在外面世界所受的痛苦，她所永远失去的快乐和美丽的曰子，以及她归家的渴望。这首让人难以忘怀的歌出世了.
Memory
leave night , Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight
The withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan
Memory, all alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
Life was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again
Every street lamp seems to beat
A fatalistic warning
Someone mutters and the street lamp sputters
and Soon it will be morning
Daylight
I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life and I mustn't give in
When the dawn comes Tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin
Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale court smell of morning
A street lamp dies Another night is over
Another day is dawning
Touch me,
It is so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the sun
If you'll touch me,
You'll understand what happiness is
Look, a new day has begun...
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