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"Only Yesterday" is a song recorded by the Carpenters. Released on March 14, 1975, the song was composed by Richard Carpenter, Kōji Makaino and John Bettis. "Only Yesterday" peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Adult Contemporary (AC) charts,[2] The Carpenters' eleventh number one on that chart.

"Only Yesterday"
Cover to the single "Only Yesterday"
Single by the Carpenters
from the album Horizon
B-side	"Happy"
Released	March 14, 1975
Recorded	January 1975
Genre	Soft rock[1]
Length	4:10 (album version) 3:50 (single version)
Label	A&M 1677
Songwriter(s)	Richard Carpenter, Kōji Makaino, John Bettis
Producer(s)	Richard Carpenter
The Carpenters singles chronology
"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town " (1974) "Only Yesterday" (1975) "Solitaire" (1975)

Cash Box called it a "ballad with its infectious beat" and that "Karen's dulcet, multi-tracked vocals soar over a dynamic arrangement which should be buzzing over the airwaves for a long time."[3]

The song was The Carpenters' last top-ten single on the Billboard Hot 100—though they would have nine more top-ten singles on the AC charts, ending with AC number seven "Make Believe It's Your First Time", a few months after Karen's death in 1983.

The music video features some footage of Karen and Richard at work in the studio. After Karen sang the line, "the promise of morning light", it faded from the studio to a fountain in Huntington Library Gardens in San Marino, California. It then featured some footage of a red moon bridge, which was roped off to the general public, in the Japanese Garden at Huntington Library.

Personnel

• Karen Carpenter – lead and backing vocals
• Richard Carpenter – backing vocals, piano, Wurlitzer electronic piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, orchestration
• Joe Osborn – bass guitar
• Tony Peluso – guitar
• Jim Gordon – drums
• Bob Messenger – tenor saxophone
• Earle Dumler – oboe
• Uncredited – percussion

Chart performance

See also

• List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1975 (U.S.)

References

Bibliography

• The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition, 1996

External links

• Carpenters - Only Yesterday on YouTube

На других языках

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[ru] Only Yesterday (песня)

«Only Yesterday» — песня американской кантри группы The Carpenters, вышедшая в 1975 году в качестве сингла с шестого студийного альбома Horizon (1975). Сингл достиг второго места в Канаде и Франции, четвёртого в американском хит-параде Billboard Hot 100 (и это последний их хит, попавший в лучшую десятку Hot 100) и первого места в чарте лёгкой музыки Adult Contemporary[1][2], став для дуэта их одиннадцатым чарттоппером.

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