"1900 Yesterday" is a song written by John Cameron and Lee Simmons.
[1][2] Liz Damon's version was originally released as a single on the Hawaii based Makaha label, before White Whale acquired the worldwide distribution rights in December 1970.
[5] The song spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No.
21 on Billboard's year-end ranking of 1971's "Top Easy Listening Singles".
[13] The lines that precede the song's title -- "Like smoke from a cigarette/Dreams that you soon forget"—appear in the 1966 song "Fading Away,"[citation needed] written by Smokey Robinson, Warren "Pete" Moore, and Bobby Rogers of the Motown act The Miracles, and first recorded by The Temptations for their 1966 album Gettin' Ready.