"Only Yesterday"
Cover to the single "Only Yesterday"
Single by The Carpenters
from the album Horizon
A-side(s)	"Only Yesterday"
B-side(s)	"Happy"
Released	March 14, 1975
Format	7" single
Recorded	1975
Genre	Pop
Length	04:10
Label	A&M Records
Writer(s)	Richard Carpenter John Bettis
Producer(s)	Jack Daugherty
Peak chart positions
#4 (U.S. Billboard Hot 100), #1 (U.S. AC)
The Carpenters singles chronology
"Please Mr. Postman" (1974)	"Only Yesterday" (1975)	"Solitaire (song)" (1975)

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Cool Facts

• The music video features some footage of Karen and Richard at work in the studio for:

 After long enough of being alone, Everyone must face their share of loneliness. In my own time nobody knew the pain I was going through; And waiting was all my heart could do. Hope was all I had until you came, Maybe you can't see how much you mean to me. You were the dawn breaking the night; The promise of morning light... 

• After Karen sang "The promise of morning light," it faded from the studio to a fountain in Huntington Library Gardens in San Marino, California. It even featured some footage of the Japanese bridge.