"Sweet Yesterday" is a song written by

Kye Fleming Rhonda Kye Fleming (born October 9, 1951) is an American singer/songwriter and music publisher working in Nashville, Tennessee. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2009 and has won more than 42 BMI Awards, including B ...

and

Dennis Morgan Dennis Morgan (born Earl Stanley Morner, December 20, 1908 – September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer. He used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame. According to one obi ...

and recorded by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

artist Sylvia. It was released in January 1982 as the first single from the album ''

Just Sylvia ''Just Sylvia'' is the second album by country music singer Sylvia. It was released in 1982 on RCA Records and was produced by Tom Collins. It featured a number one country hit in the song "Nobody", a Kyle Fleming-Dennis Morgan composition. Th ...

''. The song reached #12 on the ''

Billboard A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Billboards present large advertise ...

Hot Country Singles & Tracks Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sal ...

chart.

Chart performance

References

1982 singles 1982 songs Sylvia (singer) songs Songs written by Kye Fleming Songs written by Dennis Morgan (songwriter) Song recordings produced by Tom Collins (record producer) RCA Records singles {{1982-country-song-stub