1993
Track 6 on October Project’s first album for Sony/Epic in 1993. Released as a single. Accompanying music video has over 1 million views.
“From its first play on 99x, ‘Return to Me’ generated immediate requests, curiosity calls, and propelled [the track] into Atlanta’s Top-20 in its first week out.”
—Brian Philips/99X Atlanta
“From its first play on 99x, ‘Return to Me’ generated immediate requests, curiosity calls, and propelled [the track] into Atlanta’s Top-20 in its first week out.”
—Brian Philips/99X Atlanta
1994
Featured in the soundtrack for “Blown Away” starring Jeff Bridges & Tommy Lee Jones, alongside U2, Aretha Franklin, Joe Cocker and The Pogues.
Featured on Baywatch, Season 5, Episode 3, “Aftershock”
2000
Re-recorded with Marina on lead vocals in a duet with Julie Flanders, Emil Adler on keyboards, Dave Sabatino on guitar and Urbano Sanchez on percussion. Track goes to #1 on several radio stations.
2002
Featured in the climactic scene of the independent film “The Adulterer,” starring Tony Award-winning actress Alice Ripley (Next to Normal, Les Mis) and Cris Diamantopolous (Les Mis, Waitress, Silcon Valley), a winner at several film festivals. This scene from the film on YouTube has been seen over 62 million times.
Closing credit music for the Twin Towers documentary “The Spirit of St. Paul’s.”
2003
An album by British folk band Equation entitled Return To Me, originally recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studio in 1996, is released featuring their performance of the song
2011
“Return To Me” is arranged by Keiji Ishiguri for Yale’s first coed a cappella singing group, Redhot & Blue, a group that Marina directed while at Yale. The song, now known as “The Epiphanal Version,” is a beloved staple of the Redhot & Blue repertoire.
2013
In the wake of the school shooting in Sandy Hook, Marina and Julie closed the 5500 person March for Change rally on February 14, 2013 with an a cappella rendition of "Return to Me” for all of those who have lost loved ones to gun violence, Connecticut legislators took note, and on April 4, 2013, they passed the strongest and most comprehensive gun legislation in the nation.
2014
Return To Me: The Singles, featuring a re-issue of Marina’s 2000 recording, now known as “The Millennial Version” and a recording of the song by Yale’s Redhot & Blue, now known as “The Epiphanal Version” with 5 stars on Amazon.
The "Millennial” version of “Return to Me” is skated to by Olympic Gold Medalists Katia Gordeeva and Ilia Kulik on national television (ABC).
Enter “Return to Me” in the search bar at YouTube and you will find dozens and dozens of entries from across the years, including an Italian/Albanian pop star (Frederick Doci), a Spanish language version, and many more.