⭐ Official Review [Single]: 17. "ONLY YESTERDAY"/"HAPPY" (1677-S)

[GaryAlan]

Here are the headwinds:
Billboard June 14, 1975:
TW LW , Artist, Weeks on Chart, Title
4 #1 , Captain and Tennille, 11 Love Will Keep Us Together
12 #9 , Carpenters, 11 Only Yesterday

Rack Singles Best Sellers
1 PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM -Elton John
2 WILDFIRE -Michael Murphey
3 SISTER GOLDEN HAIR- America
4 THANK GOD I'M A COUNTRY BOY -John Denver
5 LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER - The Captain & Tennille
6 WHEN Will I Be Loved Linda Ronstadt
7 ONLY YESTERDAY- Carpenters

 

[Portlander]

I remember this week so very well, I had just graduated from high school and was on my way to boot camp. This was also the initial rise to stardom for The Captain & Tennille and the beginning of the downward slide for the Carpenters with the Neil Sedaka incident on the "Horizon".