| Product Code: | SAPCOR 23 |
| Artist: | Mary Hopkin |
| Origin: | New Zealand |
| Label: | Apple Records (1972) |
| Format: | LP |
| Availability: | Enquire Now |
| Condition: |
Cover: VG+
Record: NM (M-)
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| Genre: | Folk Rock , Pop , Rock U |
Very smart clean vinyl with a very nice gloss cover showing minor age spots on rear.
Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" ("Дорогой длинною", literally "By the long road"), composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism.
Mary Hopkin's 1968 version of the song, produced by Paul McCartney, became a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart. The song also reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, behind McCartney's own band The Beatles' hit "Hey Jude". In France the song was at no. 1 in the very first edition of the singles sales chart launched by the Centre d'Information et de Documentation du Disque in October 1968.[3]
Mary Hopkin (born 3 May 1950), credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti (from her marriage to Tony Visconti), is a Welsh folk singer best known for her 1968 UK number one single "Those Were the Days". She was one of the first musicians to sign to the Beatles' Apple label.
