Ferdinand Rennie recorded Someone to Remember Me in 2010. Fifteen years later, he returns to it with the same producer, Alan Vukelic, and no major structural changes. The song, written by Wayne Hector and Steve Robson, still plays as a widescreen ballad: slow tempo, orchestral backing, and a vocal pushed to the front.
The difference in this 2025 version comes through in delivery. Rennie doesn’t sing it the same way. The earlier version had more dramatic flair, more push in the high notes. Here, he holds the lines differently. The pacing is tighter. There’s less performance in the way he reaches for the chorus.
Vukelic’s updated production opens up the mix. The instrumentation: strings, piano, light percussion — is similar to before, but it leaves more space around the vocal. It doesn’t try to sound current. It doesn’t try to reset the track. It’s just a second version, shaped by time.
Rennie chose to re-record a song that meant something to him, and the result is a version that sounds less like a showcase, more like something he wanted to get right.
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