"Lee Remick" is the debut single by Australian indie group The Go-Betweens. It was released in September 1978 by the Australian independent record label, Able Label, with only 700 copies of the 7" vinyl record produced.

Both songs were re-released on The Able Label Singles in 1986 (together with "People Say" and "Don't Let Him Come Back") and on the 1999 compilation album, 78 'til 79 The Lost Album. In January 2009 the German label, Little Teddy Recordings, re-issued the single for the 30th anniversary of its original release. Only 500 vinyl copies were pressed. The copies were dubbed from the original vinyl record as the original master tapes of the recordings, which were sent to Beserkley Records in 1988, were subsequently lost and are presumed to have been destroyed in a fire.

In the late 1970s Grant McLennan, who was working part-time at the Toowong Music Centre, a small independent record store, suggested to the owner, Damien Nelson, that they establish a record label. With funding from Nelson, McLennan and Forster they established the Able Label. The first release on the new label was the Go-Betweens' "Lee Remick". The song was recorded at Window Studios on 16 May 1978 (the same studio that The Saints had recorded "(I'm) Stranded" eighteen months earlier), with Dennis Cantwell, the drummer of fellow Brisbane band, The Numbers. In David Nichols' seminal book on the Go-Betweens, Forster recalls that the selection of the studio was fortunate "We got it out of the phone book. It was twenty-four track, it had good microphones. We did it in three hours. It would have been only the twentieth time we'd played those songs ever."

The single however was not released until September as Nelson, Forster and McLennan, who were essentially ignorant about the vinyl-pressing process, had ordered a thousand labels for the record, with each one having to be moistened and individually applied to the record by hand. Nelson stating "We got 700 of these singles back, then we got the labels for the A-side and the B-side. And we just sat around the table sticking them on." By the time the single was released the group had appointed the band's first full-time drummer, Temucin Mustafa, who is listed on the sleeve as a member of the band even though he didn't play on the recordings. The single's sleeve depicts Forster and McLennan alongside portraits of Bob Dylan, Che Guevara and Lee Remick.

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