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Title Album details Peak chart positions UK [5]Oasis: Released: 20 April 1984; Label: WEA Formats: CD, LP, MC; As part of the short-lived group Oasis; 23 Sundance
The album's single, "Water, Paper and Clay", missed the Billboard Hot 100. It was Hopkin's last single for Apple Records, which she left in March 1972. After Hopkin's departure from Apple, a compilation album titled Those Were the Days was released in the latter part of 1972. The album featured all of Hopkin's hits but failed to chart.
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Formed in 1984, [1] the group consisted of Peter Skellern, Julian Lloyd Webber, Mitch Dalton, Bill Lovelady and Mary Hopkin. Their only album, Oasis, [2] was released on the WEA label along with two singles. The album reached No. 23 on the UK Albums Chart after first charting in April 1984; it remained in the charts for 15 weeks. [3]
The album includes a number of old show tunes, such as "Lullaby of the Leaves" and "Someone to Watch Over Me", which were among the favourites of McCartney's father, Jim, and which McCartney thought Hopkin would sing well. However, Hopkin has been somewhat critical of the song selection, saying that "Paul was quite right to encourage me, but I ...
After signing to the Beatles' record label Apple, Hopkin became a star worldwide in 1968 following the success of "Those Were the Days", produced by Paul McCartney.The ensuing album, Post Card (comprising several songs written by Donovan and a number of show tunes), and follow-up single "Goodbye" in 1969, also both under McCartney's direction, continued Hopkin's success.
The 'greatest hits' compilation album contained songs by artists who were signed to the Beatles' Apple record label between 1968 and 1973, and was the first multi-artist Apple compilation. On Christmas 1969, the President of Equatorial Guinea , Francisco Macías Nguema , had 150 alleged coup plotters executed in the national stadium while the ...
Hopkins' continuously restrained-yet-compelling piano embellishments seem to inspire Garcia to take a jazzier approach than he would with later incarnations of his band. He and Hopkins intermingle elegantly, letting the music waft to a gorgeous whisper during "Sitting in Limbo", and spurring each other to masterful improvisation at the back end ...