Carpenters - Only Yesterday

Name: Carpenters - Only Yesterday
Uploaded: 1975-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released March 14, 1975, 'Only Yesterday' arrived at the apex of the Carpenters' commercial dominance, becoming their twelfth and final top-ten Billboard Hot 100 entry and their eleventh Adult Contemporary number one. The promo film belongs to the pre-MTV era of label-produced 'promotional films' distributed to TV variety programs and…

1975 · Mid-1970s Soft Rock / AM Gold Era (1975) · music video

1975Mid-1970s Soft Rock / AM Gold Era (1975)1970s Soft Rock / Adult Contemporary Pop - AM Radio mainstream

What this video is

Released March 14, 1975, 'Only Yesterday' arrived at the apex of the Carpenters' commercial dominance, becoming their twelfth and final top-ten Billboard Hot 100 entry and their eleventh Adult Contemporary number one. The promo film belongs to the pre-MTV era of label-produced 'promotional films' distributed to TV variety programs and international broadcasters — a critical transitional moment in music video…

Why it matters

An exemplary artifact of the mid-1970s Adult Contemporary promotional film tradition. Predates MTV by six years, situating it within the proto-music-video landscape when 'promo films' were the primary visual medium for chart acts. The use of Magicam — a nascent compositing technology — marks this…

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