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Clifford Brown

Yesterdays

1955 · via KRS-One

Clifford Brown’s earliest release of “Yesterdays” on file came out in 1955. Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach are credited as its writers. The earliest release on file is Lee Konitz’s, from 1951. Also recorded by Miles Davis (released 1956), Oscar Peterson (released 1993) and Billie Holiday (released 1987), among 702 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. KRS-One’s “MCs Act Like They Don’t Know” (1995) samples it, per MusicBrainz.

Clifford Brown – Yesterdays
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KRS-One and DJ Premier wrote this one over Clifford Brown's 1955 take on "Yesterdays," a Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach song. Play the two back to back and you can hear forty years shaking hands.

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Credited writers: Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach.

Earliest release on file: Lee Konitz, 1951.

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KRS-One’s “MCs Act Like They Don’t Know” (1995) samples it, per MusicBrainz.

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702 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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KRS-One's "MCs Act Like They Don't Know" samples a recording of the old Jerome Kern tune "Yesterdays." Whose version, cut forty years earlier, did it sample?Clifford Brown
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