 Released as a single, Boyz II Men's recording of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" peaked at number two on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and reached number one on the Hot R&B Singles chart in December 1991.The track was included on Boyz II Men's first album, "Cooleyhighharmony", its name a reference to the film from which the song originated.The music video for the song featured archive footage of Jim Henson, Sammy Davis Jr. and Gilda Radner, who'd all passed away one to two years before.