Yesterday When I Was young

A nostalgic reminiscence of the past youth

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Music

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• emotion

[30kazy30]

hi tito? this is kazy can you check my vid? its my compose.. can you rate it po? or tyka po comments and mga napapansin nyo about the music para may mbgo po ako.

[dodietiks]

kazy kumusta ka na? lam mo ba ang email ko?

[McRat1968]

Persevere. Don't throw in the towel.

In 1992 my dad was given weeks to live. He surpassed that by 6 years.

[dodietiks]

I'm not throwing in the towel,I'm planning for 40 years more but preparing to go anytime, He's got better plans for me.

[McRat1968]

Mickey Mantle (RIP) heard this song and requested for Roy Clark to sing it at his funeral back in the mid-1990's.

Every word described his life, he felt.

Shortly before Mantle passed away, he made a plea to the younger generation not to make the mistakes he made.

[dodietiks]

exactly the reason I was inspired to create this video clip while I'm still alive. I'm 60 years old now, a former rock musician, short time left.

[supersporkspank]

@supersporkspank "stopped to think", not "stooped to think", though the second phrase applies as well.

[supersporkspank]

Strange as it sounds, I think there's ultimately a hopeful message behind the lyrics: the persona "feels old before his time", but there still may be time for him to make amends and steer the rest of his life along a better path. True, he hitherto had never "stooped to think what life is all about", but at least he's starting to do so now rather than later. Roy Clark's persona reminds me of Gena Rowlands' character from the excellent movie "Another Woman", because both face the same struggles.

[supersporkspank]

@supersporkspank "political correctness", not "politcally correctness".

[supersporkspank]

@McRat1968 Hey, if it weren't for wildly overpraised French "intellectuals" like Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, there'd quite arguably be no politically correctness in American universities today. Mercy bien pour rien, grenouilles maudites! (Thanks for nothing, you damned frogs!)

[lincerito]

the best singer for this always was Mr. Matt Monroe

[maryroaten]

Nomas Tom anda de puto. Yo creo que anda con la Ruka.

[maryroaten]

Tommy, wherever you are I hope you continue to live life feeling young. We all have stories to tell of our youth and I hope you don't let anyone judge you as I never did. Keep on feeling young and you will be young.

[carpenterabc]

this song is more than just song about a prodigal child...the pictue of the cold starving african child reminds me of how little COMPASSION there is in the world TODAY...we are ALL PRODIGAL PEOPLE lost in our selfish pleasures...not realizing...not realizing that THERE WILL COME A TIME TO PAY THE PRICE for "what a man sows trully he will reap.."

[McRat1968]

You're absolutely right:

No one sang it like Aznavour; and that's a very good thing (because he shouldn't have sung it anyway.)

He deserves credit for having composed it; but that's all.

No one ever said all composers are also brilliant singers and/or musicians.

Roy Clark sang it better by far.

I'm sick and tired of the French thinking they're the best at everything, like they're to be praised for having created/written/invented everything in the world.

...They think they ARE the world.