Yellow Days

"La mentira (Se te olvida)", known in English as "Yellow Days", is a bolero written by Álvaro Carrillo around 1965.{{cite book|last=Cunningham|first=Michael G.|title=Gilded Songs (Berlin to Bacharach): The Gig Instrumentalist's Guide to the Golden Era of American Popular Song (1920 to 1979)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SyxG0sOXSbsC&pg=PA50|date=August 2010|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=978-1-4520-4527-6|page=50|access-date=2017-02-12|archive-date=2017-02-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217041821/https://books.google.com/books?id=SyxG0sOXSbsC&pg=PA50|url-status=live}} Alan Bernstein wrote the song's lyrics in English. It has become a Latin and jazz standard, having been featured as the theme song of films and telenovelas,{{cite book|editor1-last=Balderston|editor1-first=Daniel|editor2-last=González|editor2-first=Mike|editor3-last=López|editor3-first=Ana M.|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures|date=2000|publisher=Routledge|location=London, UK|page=285|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kp6FAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA285|chapter=Álvaro Carrillo|isbn=9781134788521}} as well as being covered by artists such as Frank Sinatra, who sang it to an arrangement by Billy May.{{cite book|title=The Music of Billy May: A Discography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQarAAAAIAAJ|date=1 January 1998|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-30739-3|page=275}} It appeared on the Francis A. & Edward K. (Sinatra and Duke Ellington) album on Reprise. It has also been covered by Jerry Vale, the Sandpipers, Anita Bryant, Johnny Mann, Lenny Dee, Johnny Mathis, and Jonah Jones.{{cite book|title=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qggEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6|date=4 May 1968|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|page=6|issn=0006-2510|access-date=12 February 2017|archive-date=17 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217034519/https://books.google.com/books?id=qggEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6|url-status=live}}