Think of Me

Single

Released on the Madonna album in July 1983, Think of Me is one of the debut record’s more rhythmically fluid album tracks. Written by Madonna, produced by Reggie Lucas and mixed by Jim Dougherty, it sits at the meeting point between early 1980s dance-pop, R&B and up-tempo jazz-soul.

Track: Think of Me
Album: Madonna, released July 1983
Written by: Madonna
Produced by: Reggie Lucas
Mixed by: Jim Dougherty

The track features musicians including Dean Gant, Fred Zarr, Ed Walsh, Reggie Lucas, Ira Siegel, Leslie Ming and Bobby Malach, with backing vocals associated with Gwen Guthrie, Norma Jean Wright, Brenda White and Chrissy Faith. Its arrangement carries some of the same polished club-R&B character found elsewhere on the album, but with added colour from Bobby Malach’s tenor saxophone and the bright synthetic textures that helped define Madonna’s earliest sound.

As an album track, Think of Me shows Madonna developing the emotional directness that runs through her early work. The song is playful on the surface, but its message is pointed: remember me, value me, do not assume I will wait politely in the corner. It belongs to the same first-album world as Physical Attraction and I Know It, where sweetness and steel keep colliding under the beat.