"splendid memory" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when describing someone or something as having a remarkable memory. For example, "He has a splendid memory and is able to recall even the smallest of details."
My mind is full of splendid memories of Africa that I can revive and look at whenever I want.
Some of our tracks met with complete approval (no one objected to X Ray Spex), and the list prompted some splendid memories.
Larger groups can book a ride in the restored wooden Bedford coach, the old village bus, for a splendid trip down memory lane, literally: at the wheel is the taverna landlord, the only man in the village apparently skilled in double-declutching down hairpin bends.
Ms. Minnelli, who sang a version of "If He Really Knew Me" ("He really knew me, oh my Marvin") with piano accompaniment by Michael Feinstein, introduced her performance as "a wonderful memory of a splendid, splendid friend".
The scenery is indeed splendid.
Here he did likewise for the Wagner bicentennial with an utterly gorgeous performance that may live longer in memory than all the splendid Russiana that came before.
The pain they are feeling also contains pride in this splendid junior-college Yankee nine—"Yanks for the Memories" was the New York Post headline and a larger gratitude for the elegant distractions of baseball in these very hard times.
There are very few classic swords and sorcery properties that seem ripe for revival on the big screen: Peter Jackson's splendid Lord of the Rings trilogy finally wiped out memories of Ralph Bakshi's brave but half-finished 1978 effort.
The splendid overture we hear today survives courtesy of another colleague's memory.
My most sublime moments and memories of a year that was replete with splendid moments are about a book and events in a story, as I heard and imagined and retold it.
