"Yesterdays" is a 1933 song about nostalgia 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 production's more popular song, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", which was a number one hit for the Paul Whiteman orchestra.
Other recordings Artie Shaw and his Orchestra (1938) (RCA-Victor mx. BS-027231, take 1; Rel. Bluebird B-10001-B) Billie Holiday (1939) and 1952 recording Coleman Hawkins (1944) Jo Stafford with Paul Weston – Songs by Jo Stafford (1946) Lee Konitz with Miles Davis – Conception (1949) Art Tatum – Piano Starts Here (1949) Lennie Tristano – Crosscurrents (1949) Bud Powell – Jazz Giant (1950) Miles Davis (1951) (1965) Stan Getz – Stan Getz at Storyville Vol. 2 (1951) Johnny Smith feat. Stan Getz – Moonlight in Vermont (1952) Jackie Gleason Orchestra – Music, Martinis and Memories (1954) Ink Spots (1954) Helen Merrill – Helen Merrill (1954) Artie Shaw - Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five (Album 3) (including Tal Farlow, Hank Jones, Tommy Potter) (1954) Reissue: The Last Recordings: Rare and Unreleased, Vol. 1 (1992) Clifford Brown – Clifford Brown with Strings (1955) Stan Kenton – Contemporary Concepts (1955) Tal Farlow – Tal (1956) Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing (1957) Charles Mingus with Hampton Hawes – Mingus Three (1957) Modern Jazz Quartet – Modern Jazz Quartet (1975) Tito Puente – Puente Goes Jazz (1957) Four Freshmen – Voices in Latin (1958) Marion Marlowe – Dearly Beloved (1959) Buddy Rich and Max Roach – Rich Versus Roach (1959) Anita O'Day – Waiter, Make Mine Blues (1960) Oscar Peterson (1961) Frank Sinatra - Sinatra and Strings (1962) Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book (1963) Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins – Sonny Meets Hawk! (1963) Booker Ervin – The Song Book (1964) Barbra Streisand – Color Me Barbra (1966) Erroll Garner – Magician (1973) Stephane Grappelli and Yehudi Menuhin – Tea for Two (1977) Adam Makowicz and George Mraz – Classic Jazz Duets (1982) Kevin Eubanks – Guitarist (1983) Marianne Faithfull – Strange Weather (1987) Gato Barbieri – The Third World Revisited (1988) Larry Coryell – Shining Hour (1989) Tom Harrell with Kenny Werner – Sail Away (1991) Nnenna Freelon – Nnenna Freelon (1992) Stevie Holland – More Than Words Can Say (2006)"Stevie Holland | More Than Words Can Say" at AllMusic. Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band – Act Your Age (2008) Dorothy Donegan Paul Smith
See also List of 1930s jazz standards
References
External links "Yesterdays" at Jazzstandards.com