C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.659405 Composed by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Broadway,Jazz,Musical/Show,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #268470. Published by John Fries (A0.659405). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns. Â You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer. Yesterdays is a 1933 song about nostalgia composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Otto Harbach. They wrote the song for Roberta, a musical based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller. Yesterdays was overshadowed by the musical's more popular song, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, which was a number one hit for the Paul Whiteman orchestra.
