(Paul Williams – Roger Nichols) Almo Music Corp ASCAP 3:36
A&M 1260 Single released: 4/23/71
Billboard #2, 5/15/71
b/w Saturday
Original album mix:
– CARPENTERS (Tan Album)LP and Remastered Classic CD
– CARPENTERS COLLECTED
– CARPENTERS-THE COMPLETE SINGLES
– JAPANESE SINGLE BOX
– THE NATION’S FAVOURITE CARPENTERS SONGS (UK)
– ULTIMATE COLLECTION (NL)
A mono folddown of this mix can be found on original promo single.
1973 remix: segued from “Superstar”, wider stereo soundstage
– THE SINGLES 1969-1973 Remastered Classics
– THE SINGLES 1969-1973 original A&M CD, slightly sped up
– YESTERDAY ONCE MORE (84)
– YESTERDAY ONCE MORE (UK), slightly sped up
1985 remix: stereo piano, reverb added, track starts slightly left
– A&M GOLD SERIES VOL 1
– A&M NEW GOLD SERIES VOL 1 (1990)
– A&M GOLD SERIES (1991) and STARTRAX (AUS)
– ANTHOLOGY (89)
– CARPENTERS (Tan Album) Original A&M CD and Spectrum (UK) reissue
– CARPENTERS COLLECTION (Time-Life)
– CLASSICS VOL 2 and YESTERDAY ONCE MORE (85)
– ESSENTIAL COLLECTION
– FROM THE TOP
– ONLY YESTERDAY-THEIR GREATEST HITS
– REMINISCING
1985 remix, reversed stereo:
– O MELHOR DE CARPENTERS-ONLY YESTERDAY (BRZ)
– A ARTE DE CARPENTERS
1991 remix: bass enhanced, track starts slightly right, strings missing during sax solo
– 20/20 BEST OF BEST SELECTION
– 40/40 BEST SELECTION (JP)
– 40/40 (US)
– ANTHOLOGY (97)
– BEST OF BEST+
– THE BEST OF CARPENTERS (Brazil)
– BY REQUEST
– CARPENTERS BEST VOL. 1
– GOLD (JP)
– GOLD (UK)
– GOLD (US)
– ICON
– INTERPRETATIONS (UK)
– INTERPRETATIONS (US)
– LOVE SONGS
– MAGICAL MEMORIES OF THE CARPENTERS
– THE SINGLES 1969-1981
– THE SINGLES 1969-1981 SACD on SACD stereo layer and CD Audio layer
– SWEET MEMORY on and off
– THEIR GREATEST HITS AND FINEST PERFORMANCES (Readers Digest)
– TWENTY TWO HITS OF THE CARPENTERS
– ULTIMATE COLLECTION (UK)
– YESTERDAY ONCE MORE (98)
– YESTERDAY ONCE MORE (NL)
Karaoke mix: backing track to 1991 remix
– ORIGINAL MASTER KARAOKE-YESTERDAY ONCE MORE
SACD 5.1 surround mix:
– THE SINGLES 1969-1981 SACD on surround layer
Quad remix:
– CARPENTERS (tan album) Quad 8-track
– THE SINGLES 1969-1973 Quad LP and 8-track
A live version can be found on LIVE IN JAPAN and in the medley on LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM.
2018 RPO Mix: enhanced version recorded at Abbey Road Studios with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
– CARPENTERS WITH THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Though not initially credited, Tommy Morgan’s harmonica was used in the 1971 recording and all versions thereafter.
Note: the 1991 version was released in the UK on CD and vinyl singles that labelled it as a new or “Radio Remix”, but it’s just the standard 1991 remix that probably hadn’t yet been released in the UK up to that point.
Chris May says:
Regarding the SACD surround mix: A great remix. The strings have still somehow “disappeared” during the sax solo whereas they are heard there on all of the earlier mixes.
Original promotional ad for this single: