Accompanied by the English-Italian conductor and pianist Antonio Pappano on piano, Dutch violinist Janine Jansen performs Yesterdays, a 1933 song about nostalgia composed by Jerome Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) with lyrics by Otto Harbach (August 18, 1873 – January 24, 1963). The song was written for Roberta, a musical based on the novel “Gowns by Roberta” by Alice Duer Miller.

Accompanied by Antonio Pappano on piano, Janine Jansen performs Yesterdays, a 1933 song about nostalgia composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Otto Harbach. The song was written for Roberta, a musical based on the novel “Gowns by Roberta” by Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942), an American writer.

Here the great American tenor and Hollywood star of Italian origin, Mario Lanza sings “Yesterdays”. Recorded for the Coca-Cola radio show, air date March 7, 1952.

Mario Lanza sings Yesterdays from Roberta

Yesterdays from Roberta (1933 musical) lyrics

Yesterdays (2)
Days I knew as happy sweet
Sequestered days

Olden days
Golden days
Days of mad romance and love
Then gay youth was mine

And truth was mine
Joyous free and flaming life
Forsooth was mine
Sad am I

Glad am I
For today I’m dreaming of
Of yesterdays
Then gay youth was mine

The truth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I’m dreaming of
Of yesterdays

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