"Only Yesterday" was released on
March 14, 1975. The Cashbox magazine called it a "ballad with
its infectious beat" and that "Karen's dulcet, multi-tracked
vocals soar over a dynamic arrangement which should be buzzing
over the airwaves for a long time." The tune was the Carpenter's
twelfth and last Top 10 single in the United States, reached no.4 there. In Canada it
went at no.2, in United Kingdom at no.7, in Ireland no.5, in New
Zealand no.10, and even no.12 in Japan. |