Yesterday Once More (song)

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“Yesterday Once More”
Single by The Carpenters from the album Now & Then
A-side	"Yesterday Once More"
B-side	"Road Ode"
Released	May 16, 1973
Format	7" single
Recorded	1973
Genre	Pop
Length	03:59
Label	A&M Records 1446
Writer(s)	Richard Carpenter; John Bettis
Producer	Jack Daugherty
The Carpenters singles chronology
"Sing" (1973) "Yesterday Once More" (1973) "Top of the World" (1973)
Now & Then track listing
Side one "Sing" "This Masquerade" "Heather" "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" "I Can't Make Music" Side two "Yesterday Once More" "Oldies' Medley" "Fun, Fun, Fun "The End of the World" "Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)" "Dead Man's Curve" "Johnny Angel" "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" "Our Day Will Come" "One Fine Day" "Yesterday Once More (Reprise)"

"Yesterday Once More", written by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis, was a hit song by The Carpenters from their 1973 album Now & Then. Composed in the key of E, "Yesterday Once More" preceded an Oldies Medley on the album, consisting of nine songs from the 1960s. At the end of the song a motorcycle engine was heard to transition into the first song of the Oldies Medley: "Fun, Fun, Fun". The motorcycle was mixed out on The Singles: 1969-1973 compilation. However, very few copies of that particular version are on CD.

Though the song failed to top the US Billboard charts, peaking at #2, it is The Carpenters biggest selling record worldwide. Richard Carpenter admitted on a recent Japanese Carpenters documentary that it is his favorite of all the songs he's written. He has gone on to perform the instrumental version at concerts.

According to Cash Box, on June 2, "Yesterday Once More" was the highest debut single, debuting at #71. On August 4, it skyrocketed to #1^[1].

[edit] Theme

The lyrics are about remembering being young and listening to music on the radio.

[edit] Cover versions

• Swedish pop and country singer Kikki Danielsson covered the song on her 2006 album I dag & i morgon.

• Redd Kross, a rock/punk band from Hawthorne, California covered the song on their 1994 single "Yesterday Once More"

• Italo Disco singer Sabrina Salerno covered the song on her 1991 album Over the Pop.

• Mirabela Dauer, a Romanian singer covered the song sometimes in the 1970s. In her version the song was called "Vremea Soarelui" (The Time of the Sun)

• Dancing Mood, a Argentinian Big Band ensamble covered the song in their album "Grooving High"(2006), with Mimi Maura in vocals.

• The Shaggs, now seen as one of the most important outsider music groups, recorded a cover of the song which later appeared on their 1982 compilation "Shaggs' Own Thing"

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