主题：Yesterday when i was young & Roy Clark -- Elusa13

Abouth the song

This is a sad song. Mickey Mantle asked Roy Clark to sing this song

at his funeral and I heard Roy sing this on the news broadcast of the

funeral. All of us have probably met someone, somewhere, like the

person in this song, how very tragic. Sing along!

About the singer

Grand Ole Opry Member

-- since 1987

When country music first crossed over onto the pop charts, it was Roy Clark who did it. When a small town in the Ozarks became the live music capital of the world, boasting more seats than Broadway, it was Roy Clark who started it. When the longest-running syndicated television series in history was on the air, it was Roy Clark who starred in it.

Just don't expect Clark to take credit for any of it. "The biggest attribute I have," he says, "is that I'm just Ole Roy. I remind women of their brothers or sons, and men aren't intimidated by me. I don't play or sing that far over their heads that they can't say, 'If I wanted to practice, I could do that, and besides, look at him. He's no Greek god, that's for sure.'"

Throughout the '60s, Clark recorded several albums, toured constantly, and appeared on TV variety shows from Carson to Mike Douglas to Flip Wilson. "I was the token bumpkin. It became, 'Let's get that Clark guy. He's easy to get along with.'" Then came "Hee Haw." A countrified "Laugh-In" with music, shot in Nashville, "Hee Haw" premiered in 1969. Co-starring Roy Clark and Buck Owens, it was an immediate hit.

Though CBS cancelled the show after two-and-a-half years, despite ranking in the Top 20, the series segued into syndication, where it remained until 1992. "I long ago realized it was not a figure of speech when people come up to me and say they grew up watching me since they were that big."

A consummate musician, no matter the genre, he co-starred with Petula Clark at Caesar's Palace, became the first country artist to headline at the Montreux International Jazz Festival and appeared in London on "The Tom Jones Show." Today, Clark continues to be amazed when guitarists from England credit his BBC specials and performances on TV variety shows with the likes of the Jackson 5 for inspiring them to play.

But the highlight of his career, he says, was a pioneering, sold-out 1976 tour of the then Soviet Union. "Even though they didn't know the words, there were tears in their eyes when I played 'Yesterday.' Folks there said we wouldn't realize in our lifetime the good we'd accomplished, just because of our pickin' around."

At the end of each of Roy's concerts, he tells the audience, "We had to come. But you had a choice. Thanks for being here." With smiles in return, audiences continue to thank Roy Clark for being there too.

Awards include ---

TNN/Music City News Minnie Pearl Award 1999

Academy of Country Music Pioneer Award 1996

Grammy - Best Country Instrumental Performance 1982

CMA Musician of the Year 1980

Music City News Country Instrumentalist of the Year 1980

Music City News Country Instrumentalist of the Year 1979

CMA Musician of the Year 1978

Music City News Country Instrumentalist of the Year 1978

Academy of Country Music Guitar Player of the Year 1977

CMA Musician of the Year 1977

Music City News Country Instrumental Entertainer of the Year 1977

Academy of Country Music Jim Reeves Memorial Award 1976

Music City News Country Instrumental Entertainer of the Year 1976

Music City News Country Instrumental Entertainer of the Year 1975

Music City News Country Instrumentalist of the Year 1974

Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year 1973

CMA Entertainer of the Year 1973

Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year 1972

Music City News Country Instrumentalist of the Year 1972

Academy of Country Music Comedy Act 1971

Music City News Country Instrumentalist of the Year 1971

Academy of Country Music Comedy Act 1970

Music City News Country Instrumentalist of the Year 1970

Academy of Country Music Comedy Act 1969

Music City News Country Instrumentalist of the Year 1969

Notable songs include ---

Honeymoon Feeling

Malague襻

If I Had to Do It All over Again

Thank God and Greyhound

Tips of My Fingers

Come Live With Me

Yesterday, When I Was Young

Dented Fender

Riders in the Sky

Right or Left at Oak Street

（sorry，没有找到网上Roy Clark的原唱，只有Julio Iglesias和杜丽莎的翻唱。个人感觉Julio Iglesias唱的花腔太多，失去味道，杜丽莎基本能忠实原调，但由于条件限制，唱不出Roy Clark那种沧桑嗓音带来的平直和伤感）

Julio Iglesias[胡里奥] - yesterday when i was young

http://61.128.101.130:4080/song//xr/0346/9.wma

杜丽莎 - Yesterday When I Was Young

http://0132.100ku.com:715/v36-/0159/10.wma