It wasn’t only my “Yesterday Once More”…it was my “today”, back in the 1970s. Later on, when I was working and had a more generous budget to work with, I got most of the songs on CD and the cassette tapes went in the bin a few house moves ago.īut when I think back to my teenage years, listening to the radio and waiting for one of my favourite songs to come on was how I spent pretty much all my time when I wasn’t in school. Like most teenagers in the mid-1970s, I ended up with boxes of cassette tapes that I recorded in this way. Music still turned up on vinyl…and just one single was about three week’s pocket money for me back then…so the times I could buy one of those little slivers of black vinyl were few and far between. This was long before Spotify and other pretty affordable streaming services. When I was young I’d listen to the radio Waiting for my favourite songs When they played I’d sing along It made me smileĪt the time, I used to do something that anyone of a certain age will remember…when one of my favourite songs came on the radio, I’d press “record” on my cassette player and keep a copy for myself to play any time I liked.

“Yesterday Once More” was one of the early songs that got me interested in song lyrics…and, of course, the wonderful voice of Karen Carpenter.Įven though I was only a teenager when I first heard it, I was very attracted by the idea that there was a time and place people could look back on nostalgically, and it might be a feeling I’d be able to enjoy when I grew up too.īut the lyrics also spoke to be because they described exactly how I spent my days…they were both nostalgic and completely current, at least as far as my life was concerned…

Yesterday once more