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"Yesterdays" is a 1933 song about nostalgia[1] composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Otto Harbach. They wrote the song for Roberta, a musical based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller. "Yesterdays" was overshadowed by the musical's more popular song, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", which was a number one hit for the Paul Whiteman orchestra.[2]

"Yesterdays"
Song by Jerome Kern
Published	1933
Songwriter(s)	Otto Harbach
Composer(s)	Jerome Kern

Other recordings

• Billie Holiday - 1939 and 1952 recordings
• Larry Coryell – Shining Hour (1989)[3][4]
• Lee Konitz and Miles Davis -- 1949
• Dorothy Donegan[2]
• Clifford Brown -- Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)
• Ella Fitzgerald -- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book (1963)
• Erroll Garner – Magician (1973)[2]
• Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band – Act Your Age (2008)[5]
• Stevie Holland (More Than Words Can Say, 2006)[6]
• Stephane Grappelli and Yehudi Menuhin – Tea for Two (1977)[2]
• Tom Harrell with Kenny Werner – Sail Away (1991)[2]
• Coleman Hawkins – 1944[2]
• Adam Makowicz[2]
• Helen Merrill -- Helen Merrill (1954)
• Charles Mingus with Hampton Hawes – Mingus Three (1957)[2]
• Oscar Peterson(1961)[2]
• Bud Powell – (1953)[2]
• Leo Reisman – 1933[2]
• Buddy Rich and Max Roach – Rich vs. Roach (1959)[2]
• Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins – Sonny Meets Hawk! (1963)[2]
• Artie Shaw with Hank Jones – The Last Recordings: Rare and Unreleased, Vol. 1 (1954)[2]
• Paul Smith[2]
• Barbra Streisand - Color Me Barbra (album) 1966
• Art Tatum – (1949)[2]
• Lennie Tristano -- Crosscurrents (1949) [2]
• Marianne Faithfull -- Strange Weather (1987)

See also

• List of 1930s jazz standards

References

External links

• "Yesterdays" at Jazzstandards.com

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