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Mary Hopkin (born 3 May 1950), credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti from her marriage to Tony Visconti, is a Welsh singer best known for her 1968 UK number 1 single "Those Were the Days". She was one of the first artists to be signed to the Beatles ' Apple label.
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The song appears in the 1953 British/French movie Innocents in Paris, in which it was sung with its original Russian lyrics by the Russian Tzigane chanteuse Ludmila Lopato. Mary Hopkin's 1968 recording, with Gene Raskin's lyric, was a chart-topping hit in much of the Northern Hemisphere.
Hopkin's version proved popular at Apple and it was allegedly in the running to be released as Hopkin's follow-up UK single, but this ended up being the McCartney-written song "Goodbye". [9] Nilsson later recorded his own version on his album Harry , and it also became a number-one hit for David Cassidy in 1973.
The song was one of only two hits to be omitted from the compilation disc The Songs Lennon and McCartney Gave Away, issued originally in 1971 and re-released in 1979. [15] On 28 April 2014, "Goodbye" was released digitally along with "Those Were the Days" on Mary Hopkin Music. [16]
Hopkin's version was released as a single in June 1971, and was not the traditional pop song Apple were expecting, [13] with one reviewer describing it as "probably the nicest thing she has recorded, but also the least commercial". [14] Earth Song/Ocean Song was released at the beginning of October 1971 in the UK and the following month in the ...