Only Yesterday (song)

"Only Yesterday"
Cover to the single "Only Yesterday"
Single by The Carpenters
from the album Horizon
B-side	"Happy"
Released	March 14, 1975
Format	7" single
Recorded	1975
Genre	Pop
Length	4:10
Label	A&M 1677
Writer(s)	Richard Carpenter John Bettis
Producer	Richard Carpenter
The Carpenters singles chronology
"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" (1974) "Only Yesterday" (1975) "Solitaire" (1975)

"Only Yesterday" is a song recorded by The Carpenters in 1975. It was released on March 14, 1975, and was the Carpenters' last top-ten single in the United States. Composed by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis, it peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the easy listening chart,^[1] the Carpenters' eleventh number one on the chart. This song is the last Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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 Japanese bridge.^{[citation needed]}

Charts

Chart	Peak position
Canadian Singles Chart	2
Oricon International Singles Chart	1
Oricon (Japanese) Singles Chart	12
UK Singles Chart	7
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	4
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening	1

See also

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

References

1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 47. 

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