♫ Yesterday’s Gone ♫

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Our friend rawgod unintentionally (or was it intentional?) planted this earworm last night, and it immediately took root inside my head, so naturally I must share it with you guys!  I’ve only played this once, just about three years ago …

This was Chad & Jeremy’s first and only hit song in the UK in 1963, and in the U.S. the following year.  Chad Stuart wrote the song, and shares the writing credit with Wendy Kidd, the manager of a band Stuart belonged to at the time of the song’s writing.

Unlike the rock-music sounds of their peers at the time, Chad & Jeremy performed in a soft, folk-inflected style that is characterised by hushed and whispered vocals. The duo had a string of hits in the United States, including Willow Weep for Me (produced by Shel Talmy), Before and After, and their biggest hit, A Summer Song (produced by Shel Talmy). However, it seems that this was one duo doomed to failure in their native land, as the Brits seemed to largely disregard them, and this one was the only one to chart in the UK at #37 … although in Canada (#23) and the U.S. (#21) they did considerably better.  After some commercial failures and divergent personal ambitions, Chad & Jeremy disbanded in 1968.

Yesterday’s Gone
Chad & Jeremy

I loved you all the summer through
I thought I’d found my dream in you
For me you were the one
But that was yesterday and yesterday’s gone

We walked together hand in hand
‘Cross miles and miles of golden sand
But now it’s over and done
‘Cause that was yesterday and yesterday’s gone

We had such happiness together
I can’t believe it’s gone forever

Wait ’til summer comes again
I hope that you’ll remember when
Our love had just begun
I loved you yesterday and yesterday’s gone

We had such happiness together
I can’t believe it’s gone forever

Wait ’til summer comes again
I hope that you’ll remember when
Our love had just begun
I loved you yesterday and yesterday’s goneYesterday’s gone
Yesterday’s gone
Yesterday’s gone

Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: David Stuart / Wendy Kidd

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30 thoughts on “♫ Yesterday’s Gone ♫”

  2. I had to go back to check this one out after all the comments, I agree with the chaps! Never heard of them, the song sounds familiar, I wonder who else sang it or injected a bit of life into it? I was keener on the Beatles and the other well known groups.

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  8. Intentional? Me? Well, I didn’t intend you had to play it so quickly, if at all. But it came as I was writing a comment, and I thought I would give it a musical ending.
    And just to clarify, yesterday might be gone, but I still love you, and all our internet friends. We may never meet in person, and our beaches may be made of words instead of sand, but they are all special. Yesterday is just a state of mind… we have each other forever now.

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