Yesterdays (1933 song)

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

"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]

Other recordings

• Gato Barbieri – The Third World Revisited (1988) ^[3]
• Billie Holiday (1939) ^[4] and 1952 recording ^[5]
• Larry Coryell – Shining Hour (1989) ^{[6] [7]}
• Miles Davis (1951) ^[8] (1965). ^[9]
• Dorothy Donegan ^[2]
• Clifford Brown – Clifford Brown with Strings (1955) ^[10]
• Booker Ervin – The Song Book (1964) ^[11]
• Marianne Faithfull – Strange Weather (1987) ^[12]
• Tal Farlow – Tal (1956) ^[13]
• Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book (1963) ^[14]
• Nnenna Freelon – Nnenna Freelon (1992) ^[15]
• Four Freshmen – Voices in Latin (1958) ^[16]
• Erroll Garner – Magician (1973) ^[2]
• Stan Getz – Stan Getz at Storyville Vol. 2 (1951) ^[17]
• Jackie Gleason Orchestra – Music, Martinis and Memories (1954) ^[18]
• Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band – Act Your Age (2008) ^[19]
• Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing (1957) ^[20]
• Stevie Holland – More Than Words Can Say (2006) ^[21]
• Stephane Grappelli and Yehudi Menuhin – Tea for Two (1977) ^[2]
• Tom Harrell with Kenny Werner – Sail Away (1991) ^[2]
• Coleman Hawkins (1944) ^[2]
• Ink Spots (1954) ^[22]
• Stan Kenton – Contemporary Concepts (1955) ^[23]
• Lee Konitz with Miles Davis – Conception (1949) ^[24]
• Adam Makowicz and George Mraz – Classic Jazz Duets (1982) ^[2]
• Marion Marlowe – Dearly Beloved (1959) ^[25]
• Helen Merrill – Helen Merrill (1954) ^[26]
• Charles Mingus with Hampton Hawes – Mingus Three (1957) ^[2]
• Modern Jazz Quartet – Modern Jazz Quartet (1975) ^[27]
• Anita O'Day – Waiter, Make Mine Blues (1960) ^[28]
• Oscar Peterson (1961) ^[2]
• Bud Powell – Jazz Giant (1950) ^[29]
• Buddy Rich and Max Roach – Rich Versus 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]
• Frank Sinatra - Sinatra and Strings (1962) ^[30]
• Johnny Smith feat. Stan Getz – Moonlight in Vermont (1952) ^[31]
• Paul Smith ^[2]
• Jo Stafford with Paul Weston – Songs by Jo Stafford (1946) ^[32]
• Barbra Streisand – Color Me Barbra (1966) ^[33]
• Art Tatum – Piano Starts Here (1949) ^[2]
• Lennie Tristano – Crosscurrents (1949) ^[2]
• Tito Puente – Puente Goes Jazz (1957) ^[34]

See also

• List of 1930s jazz standards

References

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External links

• "Yesterdays" at Jazzstandards.com