Yesterday When I Was Young

French singer-songwriter Charles Aznavour wrote and recorded this in 1964 as "Hier Encore," or "Only Yesterday." Country singer Roy Clark, who had just started his long-running gig as the co-host of Hee Haw, covered the song in 1969 and landed in the Top 10 on the country chart. Clark's spoken-word intro leads into a somber recollection of a wasted youth that led to a lonely adulthood: It seems the love I've known Has always been the most destructive kind I guess that's why now I feel so old Before my time

Herbert Kretzmer, who also translated Aznavour's hit "She," wrote the English-language lyrics.

Clark honored a request from Mickey Mantle and sang this at the former New York Yankee's funeral in 1995.