英國白人靈魂歌姬［達絲蒂．史賓絲菲爾］──成人流行抒情曲──［Yesterday When I Was Young／當昨天我年少時］

Somehow, it seems the love I knew
Was always the most destructive kind

Yesterday when I was young
The taste of life was sweet
As rain upon my tongue
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
The way the evening breeze
May tease the candle flame

The thousand dreams I dreamed
The splendid things I planned
I always built to last on weak and shifting sand
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
And only now I see how the time ran away

Yesterday when I was young
So many lovely songs were waiting to be sung
So many wild pleasures lay in store for me
And so much pain my eyes refused to see

I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
I never stopped to think what life was all about
And every conversation that I can now recall
Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all

The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
The friends I made all somehow seemed to slip away
And only now Im left alone to end the play, yeah

Oh, yesterday when I was young
So many, many songs were waiting to be sung
So many wild pleasures lay in store for me
And so much pain my eyes refused to see

There are so many songs in me that wont be sung
I feel a bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday
When I was young

１９７２年１１月 ３３歲半的英國白人靈魂歌姬達絲蒂．史賓絲菲爾（Dusty Springfield）發行第１７張大碟［See All Her Faces］

一些曲目是與 Jeff Barry 為 Atlantic Records 的第三張專輯錄製，

其他曲目則是 １９７０年４至 ７月在英國為 Philips 錄製──這些是史賓絲菲爾與長期製作人Johnny Franz 的最後錄音。

［See All Her Faces］ 收集了１９６９年至１９７１年間錄製的許多曲目。

結果這張專輯並沒有凝聚力的聲音，但提供許多不同風格的音樂。

［See All Her Faces］共有八位製作人，包括史賓絲菲爾本人。

樂評大致良好．

本碟只在英國推出，未在美國發行．

由於史賓絲菲爾聲勢以降，因此未入排行榜．

第二主打是１９７２年５月發行的［Yesterday When I Was Young／當昨天我年少時］──只在英國，歐洲，日本推出．

這是改編自法語歌曲［Hier encore／昨日再現］

由Georges Garvarentz作曲，Charles Aznavour作詞，Charles Aznavour１９６４年灌錄．

１９６９年，英國Herbert Kretzmer改寫英語歌詞，由美國歌手Roy Clark灌錄，登上美國告示牌單曲榜＃１９．

史賓絲菲爾版由Johnny Franz與達絲蒂製作成一首成人流行抒情曲．

旋律悅耳，管弦樂編曲優美，史賓絲菲爾的沙啞嗓音以細膩溫柔方式演繹．

由於當時史賓絲菲爾聲勢下滑，

［Yesterday When I Was Young］未入榜．

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnrClwWMbM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4c0s93YA8c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6BGICAA6XY

Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t84LpT607DQ