- Only Yesterday (song)
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"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
1677Writer(s) Richard Carpenter
John BettisProducer 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
positionCanadian 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
References
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 47.
- The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition, 1996
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- The Carpenters songs
- Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one singles
- Oricon International Singles Chart number-one singles
- Songs with lyrics by John Bettis
- 1970s pop song stubs
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