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)
• Billie Holiday - 1939 and 1952 recordings
• Larry Coryell – Shining Hour (1989)^[3][4]
• Miles Davis (1951, 1965)
• Dorothy Donegan^[2]
• Clifford Brown -- Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)
• Booker Ervin -- The Song Book (1964)
• Marianne Faithfull -- Strange Weather (1987)
• Tal Farlow -- Tal (1956)
• Ella Fitzgerald -- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book (1963)
• Nnenna Freelon --Nnenna Freelon (1992)
• Four Freshmen -- Voices in Latin (1958)
• Erroll Garner – Magician (1973)^[2]
• Stan Getz -- Stan Getz at Storyville Vol. 2 (1951)
• 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]
• Ink Spots -- (1954)
• Stan Kenton -- Contemporary Concepts (1955)
• Lee Konitz with Miles Davis -- Conception (1949)
• Adam Makowicz and George Mraz -- Classic Jazz Duets (1982)^[2]
• Marion Marlowe -- Dearly Beloved (1959)
• Helen Merrill -- Helen Merrill (1954)
• Charles Mingus with Hampton Hawes – Mingus Three (1957)^[2]
• Modern Jazz Quartet -- Modern Jazz Quartet (1975)
• Anita O'Day -- Waiter, Make Mine Blues (1960)
• Oscar Peterson (1961)^[2]
• Bud Powell Bud Powell Piano Solos (1950)
• 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]
• Johnny Smith feat. Stan Getz Moonlight in Vermont (1952)
• Paul Smith^[2]
• Jo Stafford with Paul Weston Songs by Jo Stafford (1946)
• Barbra Streisand - Color Me Barbra (1966)
• Art Tatum – Piano Starts Here (1949)^[2]
• Lennie Tristano -- Crosscurrents (1949)^[2]
• Tito Puente -- Puente Goes Jazz (1957)

See also

• List of 1930s jazz standards

References

1. Browne, Ray Broadus; Ambrosetti, Ronald J. (Sep 11, 1993). Continuities in Popular Culture: The Present in the Past & the Past in the Present and Future. Popular Press. ISBN 9780879725938. Retrieved Sep 11, 2019 – via Google Books.
2. Gioia, Ted (2012). The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. New York City: Oxford University Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-19-993739-4.
3. "Shining Hour overview". Allmusic.com.
4. "Major Jazz Minor Blues". All About Jazz.
5. Ruhlmann, William. Yesterdays at AllMusic. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
6. "Stevie Holland | More Than Words Can Say" at AllMusic.

External links

• "Yesterdays" at Jazzstandards.com