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Song well-nigh lost youth and romantic idealism

"Those Were the Days"
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A-side label of United kingdom unmarried
Single by Mary Hopkin
from the album Mail Card
B-side "Plough! Turn! Turn!"
Released 1968
Studio Abbey Road Studios, London
Genre Folk[1] [two]
Length v:05
Label Apple tree
Songwriter(s)
  • Boris Fomin
  • Gene Raskin
Producer(due south) Paul McCartney
Mary Hopkin singles chronology
"Those Were the Days"
(1968) 		"Goodbye"
(1969)
"Those Were The Days"
Single by Sandie Shaw
B-side "Make It Become"
Released 1968
Label Pye
Songwriter(s)
  • Boris Fomin
  • Gene Raskin
Sandie Shaw singles chronology
"Together"
(1968) 		"Those Were The Days"
(1968) 		"Monsieur Dupont"
(1969)

"Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Factor Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song Дорогой длинною (literally "Past the long road"), composed past Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism. It as well deals with tavern activities, which include drinking, singing and dancing.

Mary Hopkin's 1968 debut single of "Those Were the Days", which was produced by Paul McCartney of the Beatles, and bundled past Richard Hewson, became a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and on the Canadian RPM Mag charts. The vocal also reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, behind "Hey Jude" by the Beatles. It was number one in the first edition of the foreign singles sales chart launched past the Centre d'Information et de Documentation du Disque.[3] The song was featured on her debut album Post Card.

Early history [edit]

Georgian singer Tamara Tsereteli (1900–1968) and Russian singer Alexander Vertinsky made what were probably the earliest recordings of the song, in 1925[4] and in 1926[five] respectively.

The vocal appears in the 1953 British/French moving-picture show Innocents in Paris, in which information technology was sung with its original Russian lyrics by the Russian Tzigane chanteuse Ludmila Lopato. Mary Hopkin'southward 1968 recording of it with Gene Raskin's lyric was a chart-topping striking in much of the Northern Hemisphere. On about recordings of the song, Raskin is credited equally the sole author, fifty-fifty though he wrote but the afterward English lyrics (which are not an English translation of the Russian lyrics) and non the music.

Later history [edit]

In the early 1960s Raskin, with his married woman Francesca, played folk music around Greenwich Village in New York, including White Horse Tavern. Raskin, who had grown up hearing the song, wrote with his wife,[6] new English language lyrics to the old Russian music and and so copyrighted both music and lyrics in his own name.[7] The Limeliters later on released a recording of the song on their 1962 LP Folk Matinee.[8] The Raskins were international performers and had played London's "Bluish Affections" every year, e'er closing their evidence with the song. Paul McCartney frequented the club and, being quite taken with the song, he attempted to become several singers or groups (including the early on Moody Dejection) to record it.[ix] Failing at that, later the germination of the Beatles' own Apple Records label, McCartney immediately recorded Mary Hopkin performing the song at Abbey Road Studios in London.[10] He later said "I thought it was very catchy, information technology had something, it was a good treatment of nostalgia... (Hopkin) picked it up very easily, equally if she'd known it for years."[11] The song was eventually recorded in over xx languages and by many different artists, including Factor and Francesca.

Hopkin's recording was produced by Paul McCartney with an system by Richard Hewson and became a number-one hitting on the UK Singles Chart. In the U.s.a., Hopkin's recording reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 (held out of the top spot for three weeks by "Hey Jude" by The Beatles) and topped the Billboard Easy Listening charts for 6 weeks.[12] In the Netherlands, it topped the charts for two consecutive weeks.[xiii] The Russian origin of the melody was accentuated by an instrumentation that was unusual for a acme-10 popular record, including balalaika, clarinet, hammered dulcimer or cimbalom, tenor banjo and children'southward chorus, giving a klezmer feel to the song. Mary Hopkin played acoustic guitar on the recording, and Paul McCartney likewise played audio-visual guitar and possibly percussion. The cimbalom was played by Gilbert Webster.[14]

McCartney also recorded Hopkin singing "Those Were The Days" in other languages for release in their respective countries:

  • In Spain, Qué tiempo tan feliz
  • In Due west Frg, An jenem Tag
  • In Italy, Quelli erano giorni
  • In French republic, Le temps des fleurs

The non-English sets of lyrics were also recorded by Dalida and Sandie Shaw, with Shaw recording the English lyrics also.

The Uk and U.s. recording's B-side was Pete Seeger's "Turn! Plough! Plow!", which had been a United states of america number-one hit for The Byrds in 1965.

"Those Were the Days" was catalogue number Apple tree 2. (The Apple tree 1 number had been given to an unreleased version of Frank Sinatra'south "The Lady Is a Tramp", recorded specially in 1968, for Maureen Starkey's 22nd altogether, equally a gift from Ringo Starr, under the proper noun of "The Lady is a Champ".) It was the 2nd unmarried to be released on the Apple tree characterization, the first— "Hey Jude" by the Beatles—had retained the sequential catalogue numbers used past Parlophone (in the UK) and Capitol (in the US).

Hopkin'southward version was released on the back of her success on the television talent show Opportunity Knocks and, around the time of its release, popular singer Sandie Shaw was also asked to tape the song by her management, feeling that it should be done by a "real" vocaliser. Shaw's version was released equally a single, just did non match the success of Hopkin's version.

At the peak of the vocal'south success, a New York company used the melody in a commercial for Rokeach gefilte fish, arguing that the tune was an old Russian folk-melody and thus in the public domain. (The commercial included the line "The perfect dish, Rokeach Gefilte Fish" where the English-language vocal would go "Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days.") Raskin successfully sued and won a settlement, since he had slightly altered the tune to fit his lyrics and had taken out the valid new copyright.[ citation needed ]

In the mid-1970s, later Hopkin'due south contract with Apple tree concluded, "Those Were the Days" and "Goodbye" were re-recorded with producer Tony Visconti, whom she had married in 1971. These re-recorded versions tin exist found on music compilations.

On Robin Williams' Live 2002 stand-up album, a vocal entitled "The Grim Rapper" samples "Those Were the Days".

On 25 October 2010, Apple tree Records released Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records, which included the original recordings of "Those Were the Days" and "Bye". The greatest hits compilation anthology contained songs by artists signed to the Beatles' Apple record characterization between 1968 and 1973, the kickoff such multi-creative person Apple compilation.

On Christmas 1969, the President of Republic of equatorial guinea, Francisco Macías Nguema, had 150 alleged coup plotters executed in the national stadium while the amplifier arrangement played the Mary Hopkins' recording of "Those Were the Days".[15]

The melody of "Those Were the Days" is used for the Republic of Ireland football game chant "Come up On You Boys in Light-green".[sixteen]

In 2011, Hopkin'southward version of the song was used by Nando's South Africa in a satirical advert featuring Robert Mugabe every bit the 'Last Dictator Standing'. The advertising was axed chop-chop, due to controversy and condemnation from pro-Mugabe loyalists.[17]

Charts (Mary Hopkin version) [edit]

Other recordings [edit]

  • 1959: Theodore Bikel recorded this vocal, in the original Russian language.[46]
  • 1968: The French version of the song, "Le temps des fleurs", was popularized past the international recording star Dalida. She also recorded the song in Italian and German language.
  • 1968 The Swedish version of the song, "Ja, det var då" was released by Swedish singer Anita Lindblom.
  • 1968: The Serbo-Croatian version of the song, "To su bili dani", was released by the Yugoslav all-female person rock ring Sanjalice.[47]
  • In the 1960s: Mary Hopkin and Sandie Shaw also sang the song in French, also as in Italian, Spanish and German. Both Shaw's and Hopkin'southward versions were released roughly around the same time, equally a sort of competition between the two, to see whose single would fare meliorate with the public. When Hopkin's album, Postcard, was re-released on CD, the Spanish and Italian versions of the songs appeared as bonus tracks. Sandie Shaw has had all of her versions re-released on separate CDs, separate up by language.
  • 2001: Finnish folk metallic group Turisas included their rendition of Those Were the Days in their 2001 EP The Middle of Turisas.
  • 2005: American state vocalist-songwriter Dolly Parton recorded an album including folk and pop songs from the 1960s and 1970s. This was the opening song and championship track to her album Those Were The Days. Mary Hopkin provided bankroll vocals to this recording.
  • 2007: Japanese vocalizer Noriko Mitose included a version on her 2007 album Cotton fiber, entitled "Hana no Kisetsu" ( 花の季節 , literally "Flower Season", itself a translation of "Les temps des fleurs"). The arrangement is provided by guitarist Tomohiko Kira.[48]
  • 2019: British folk artist Laura Marling covered "Those Were the Days" as part of a companion album to the picture show Roma.[49]

See also [edit]

  • Apple Records discography
  • List of Cash Box Acme 100 number-one singles of 1968
  • Listing of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1968 (U.S.)
  • List of number-i singles of 1968 (Canada)
  • List of number-one hits of 1968 (Germany)
  • List of number-ane singles of 1968 (Ireland)
  • List of number-one singles of 1968 (Spain)
  • List of number-one singles from 1968 to 1979 (Switzerland)
  • List of Oricon number-one singles of 1969
  • List of U.k. charts and number-ane singles (1952–1969)
  • VG-lista 1964 to 1994

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External links [edit]

  • Several Russian songs, including Дорогой длинною
  • Those were the days on vocal facts
  • Discography of "Дорогой длинною" song on Russian-Records.com
  • Site with lyrics
  • Mary Hopkin - Those Were the Days on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Were_the_Days_(song)

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