Carpenters 是美国 70 年代商业上最成功的柔情音乐团体之一，这是来自康涅狄格州黑文市的一支兄妹二重唱组合,哥哥Richard担任键盘手兼歌手，妹妹Karen担任歌手兼鼓手，兄妹二人创作了很多脍炙人口的歌曲。《Yesterday Once More》这首歌曲是理查德.卡朋特和约翰.贝迪斯为回应七十年代早期的怀旧风而创作的。《Yesterday Once More》是概念唱片《Now and Then》中的一首经典曲目,单曲本身在1973年夏天大热胜出,这首夺金单曲在美国和英国两地都取得亚军的成绩，成为永恒畅销单曲之一。

　　When I was young
　　I'd listened to the radio
　　Waitin' for my favorite songs
　　When they played I'd sing along
　　It made me smile
　　Those were such happy times
　　And not so long ago
　　How I wondered where they'd gone
　　But they're back again
　　Just like a long lost friend
　　All the songs I loved so well
　　Every sha-la-la-la
　　Every wo-wo-wo
　　Still shines
　　Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
　　That they're starting to sing's
　　So fine
　　When they get to the part
　　Where he's breakin' her heart
　　It can really make me cry
　　Just like before
　　It's yesterday once more
　　Lookin' back on how it was
　　In years gone by
　　And the good times that I had
　　Makes today seem rather sad
　　So much has changed
　　It was songs of love that
　　I would sing to then
　　And I'd memorize each word
　　Those old melodies
　　Still sound so good to me
　　As they melt the years away
　　All my best memories
　　Come back clearly to me
　　Some can even make me cry
　　Just like before
　　It's yesterday once more