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Yesterday's Dreams is the seventh overall and sixth studio album recorded by the Four Tops, issued by Motown Records in August 1968. The album was recorded as the main Motown songwriting/producing partnership of Holland–Dozier–Holland were leaving the label, and as a result only contains one song from them, "I'm in a Different World", which was released as a single.
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| Released | September 1968 | |||
| Studio | Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit | |||
| Label | Motown | |||
| Producer | Ivy Jo Hunter, Ashford & Simpson, Frank Wilson | |||
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| Singles from Yesterday's Dreams | ||||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
There are several other original Motown songs on the album, including the title track, "Remember When", "We've Got a Strong Love (On Our Side)", "Can't Seem to Get You out of My Mind" and a cover of Stevie Wonder's "A Place in the Sun". The rest are cover songs produced by Ivy Jo Hunter and Frank Wilson.
Track listing edit
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Yesterday's Dreams" | Vernon Bullock, Jack Alan Goga, Ivy Jo Hunter, Pam Sawyer | 2:59 |
| 2. | "Can't Seem to Get You out of My Mind" | Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson | 3:24 |
| 3. | "I'm in a Different World" | Holland–Dozier–Holland | 3:02 |
| 4. | "We've Got a Strong Love (On Our Side)" | Jack Alan Goga, Ivy Jo Hunter, Pam Sawyer | 3:10 |
| 5. | "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" | Jimmy Webb | 3:10 |
| 6. | "Remember When" | Shena DeMell, Jack Alan Goga, Ivy Jo Hunter | 3:11 |
| 7. | "Sunny" | Bobby Hebb | 3:29 |
| 8. | "Never My Love" | Don Addrisi, Dick Addrisi | 3:27 |
| 9. | "Daydream Believer" | John Stewart | 3:16 |
| 10. | "Once Upon a Time" | Lee Adams, Charles Strouse | 2:28 |
| 11. | "The Sweetheart Tree" | Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer | 3:00 |
| 12. | "A Place in the Sun" | Ron Miller, Bryan Wells | 3:25 |
Personnel edit
- Levi Stubbs – lead vocals
- Lawrence Payton – backing vocals, keyboards
- Renaldo "Obie" Benson – backing vocals
- Abdul "Duke" Fakir – backing vocals
- The Andantes – additional background vocals (tracks 2–5, 7–11)
- The Originals – additional background vocals (tracks 2 and 11)
- Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers