jmjiloveyou - Yester-me, Yester-you, Yesterday
jmjiloveyou
Sep 22, 2026 08:26am
<h1>Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday</h1><p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yestermeyesteryouyesterday.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/24/Yestermeyesteryouyesterday.jpg/220px-Yestermeyesteryouyesterday.jpg" alt="Yestermeyesteryouyesterday.jpg" height="215" width="220"></a></p><p><br></p><p>"<strong>Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday</strong>" is a 1969 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">soul</a> song written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Miller_(songwriter)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">Ron Miller</a> and Bryan Wells, released by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motown" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">Motown</a> singer-songwriter-musician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">Stevie Wonder</a> on the album <em style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Cherie_Amour_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">My Cherie Amour</a></em> (1969). The song continued Wonder's success on the pop charts. It reached #7 on the pop singles chart and become Wonder's ninth <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_charts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">Top 10</a> single of the 1960s. The single fared even better on the UK singles chart where it reached #2 in November 1969, and at that time, it was Wonder's biggest UK hit.</p><p>Stevie recorded also an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">Italian</a> version with the title "<strong>Solo te, solo me, solo noi</strong>" (<em>Only you, only me, only us</em>). The song was later reworked into an unusual, electronic version by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Rush" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">Jennifer Rush</a> on her 1985 <em style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movin%27_(Jennifer_Rush_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Movin'</a></em> album.</p><h2><br></h2><h2>Background</h2><p>The song had been first recorded, in 1966, by blue-eyed Motown soul singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Clark_(singer)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">Chris Clark</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yester-Me,_Yester-You,_Yesterday#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">[1]</a></p><p>At the time the song was released, Wonder was going through some vocal problems and was required to wait before recording a song. Due to this, instead of making Wonder record new ones, they decided to release songs that he had recorded years earlier, and this song was one of them (it was recorded two years earlier). The song's main theme is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">nostalgia</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yester-Me,_Yester-You,_Yesterday#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">[2]</a> for a loved one.</p>