Mary Hopkin: Those Were The Days 1972 Apple Records SW 3395 (EX)
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Mary Hopkin: Those Were The Days 1972 Apple Records SW 3395 (EX)
Track Listing
A1 Those Were The Days
A2 Que Sera Sera
A3 The Fields Of St Etienne
A4 Kew Gardens
A5 Temma Harbour
A6 Think About Your Children
B1 Knock Knock Who's There
B2 Heritage
B3 Sparrow
B4 Lontano Degli Occhi
B5 Goodbye
Identifiers
Matrix/Runout (Side A runout etched, except (STERLING, 0) stamped): SW-1-3395-Z-9 STERLING 0
Matrix/Runout (Side B runout etched, except (STERLING, 0) stamped): SW-2-3395-Z-5 STERLING 2T LH 0
Mary Hopkin is a popular recording artist in the 1960's. It was British model Twiggy who bought Hopkin to the attention of Paul McCartney. The Beatles had just started Apple records and were looking for new artists. Hopkin fit in perfectly with McCartney's artist roster. Hopkins debut single "Those were The Days",produced by McCartney became a #1 single in the UK and a world wide hit. Mary Hopkin hits include Think About Your Children, Goodbye and Those Were The Days
Paul McCartney heard this song in a nightclub performed by Gene & Francesca. He invited the young singer Mary Hopkins, winner of the 1968 TV talent show Opportunity Knocks, into the studio to sing for him. He produced the song with her in Abbey Road Studios, and recorded the guitar part himself. Founded by the Beatles, it was Apple Records’ second single. Interestingly, Those Were the Days ranked higher on the English charts than the Beatles’ Hey Jude after its release on Apple Records, and shortly after took the American and German charts by storm. Since then it has been covered in many different genres.
The original version comes from Russia (just before the October Revolution) and in 1917 was very popular there. The original title was Dorogoi Dlinnoyu, which could be translated as ‘Down the Long Road’. It was popularized in the west through the 1953 British film Innocents in Paris, in which Those were the days is sung in a Variety scene. It was first released on record by the folk duo Gene & Francesca, with the text translated into English by Gene Raskin.
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