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Those Were the Days (song)

December 07, 2023

For other songs, see Those Were the Days (disambiguation).

"Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song "Дорогой длинною" (Romance transliteration "Dorogoy dlinnoyu", 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. It also deals with tavern activities, which include drinking, singing and dancing.

"Those Were the Days"
A-side label of UK single
Single by Mary Hopkin
from the album Post Card
B-side"Turn! Turn! Turn!"
Released30 August 1968[1]
StudioEMI, London
GenreFolk[2][3]
Length5:05
LabelApple
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)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 Go"
Released1968
GenreEasy listening
Length3:50
LabelPye
Songwriter(s)
Sandie Shaw singles chronology
"Together"
(1968) 		"Those Were The Days"
(1968) 		"Monsieur Dupont"
(1969)

Mary Hopkin's 1968 debut single of "Those Were the Days", which was produced by Paul McCartney of the Beatles, and arranged by Richard Hewson, became a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and on the Canadian RPM Magazine charts. The song 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 French National Hit Parade launched by the Centre d'Information et de Documentation du Disque.[4] The song was featured on the US version of the 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[5] and 1926[6] respectively.

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 of it with Gene Raskin's lyric was a chart-topping hit in much of the Northern Hemisphere. On most recordings of the song, Raskin is credited as the sole writer, even though he wrote only the later English lyrics (which are not an English translation of the Russian lyrics) and not the music.

Later history edit

In the early 1960s, Raskin, with his wife Francesca, played folk music around Greenwich Village in New York, including White Horse Tavern. Raskin, who had grown up hearing the song, and his wife wrote[7] new English lyrics to the old Russian music and then copyrighted both music and lyrics in his own name.[8] The Limeliters subsequently released a recording of the song on their 1962 LP Folk Matinee.[9] The Raskins were international performers and had played London's "Blue Angel" every year, always closing their show with the song. Paul McCartney frequented the club and, being quite taken with the song, he attempted to get several singers or groups (including the early Moody Blues) to record it.[10] Failing at that, after the formation of the Beatles' own Apple Records label, McCartney immediately recorded Mary Hopkin performing the song at Abbey Road Studios in London.[11] He later said, "I thought it was very catchy, it had something, it was a good treatment of nostalgia... (Hopkin) picked it up very easily, as if she'd known it for years."[12] The song was eventually recorded in over twenty languages and by many different artists, including Gene and Francesca.

Hopkin's recording was produced by Paul McCartney with an arrangement by Richard Hewson and became a number-one hit on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, 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 six weeks.[13] In the Netherlands, it topped the charts for two consecutive weeks.[14] The Russian origin of the melody was accentuated by an instrumentation that was unusual for a top-ten pop record, including balalaika, clarinet, hammered dulcimer or cimbalom, tenor banjo and children's chorus, giving a klezmer feel to the song. Mary Hopkin played acoustic guitar on the recording, and Paul McCartney also played acoustic guitar and possibly percussion. The cimbalom was played by Gilbert Webster.[15]

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

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

The UK and United States recording's B-side was Pete Seeger's "Turn! Turn! Turn!", which had been a United States number-one hit for The Byrds in 1965.

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

Hopkin's 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 record the song by her management, feeling that it should be done by a "real" singer. Shaw's version was released as a single, but did not match the success of Hopkin's version.

At the peak of the song's success, a New York company used the melody in a commercial for Rokeach gefilte fish, arguing that the tune was an old Russian folk-tune and thus in the public domain. (The commercial included the line "The perfect dish, Rokeach Gefilte Fish" where the English-language song 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, after Hopkin's contract with Apple ended, "Those Were the Days" and "Goodbye" were re-recorded with producer Tony Visconti, whom she had married in 1971. These re-recorded versions can be found on music compilations.

On 25 October 2010, Apple Records released Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records, which included the original recordings of "Those Were the Days" and "Goodbye". The greatest hits compilation album contained songs by artists signed to the Beatles' Apple record label between 1968 and 1973, the first such 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 amplifier system played the Mary Hopkin recording of "Those Were the Days".[16]

The tune of "Those Were the Days" is used for the Republic of Ireland football chant "Come On You Boys in Green".[17]

In 2011, Hopkin's version of the song was used by Nando's South Africa in a satirical advertisement featuring Robert Mugabe as the 'Last Dictator Standing'. The advert was axed quickly, due to controversy and condemnation from pro-Mugabe loyalists.[18]

Charts (Mary Hopkin version) edit

Certifications edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[47] Gold 1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Other recordings edit

  • 1959: Theodore Bikel recorded the song in its original Russian language version.[48]
  • 1968: The French version of the song, "Le temps des fleurs", was popularized by the international recording star Dalida. She also recorded the song in Italian and German.[citation needed]
  • 1968: A Swedish version of the song, "Ja, det var då", was released by Swedish singer Anita Lindblom.[citation needed]
  • 1968: a Finnish version of the song, "Oi niitä aikoja", was released by the Finnish singer Päivi Paunu[citation needed]
  • 1968: The Serbo-Croatian version of the song, "To su bili dani", was released by the Yugoslav all-female rock band Sanjalice.[49]
  • In 1968 American singer Johnny Mathis released the album "Those Were The Days" which featured the title song as the first track
  • In the 1960s: Mary Hopkin and Sandie Shaw also sang the song in English and French, as well as in Italian, Spanish and German. Both Shaw's and Hopkin's versions were released around the same time, as a sort of competition between the two, to see whose single would fare better with the public. When Hopkin's album, Post Card, 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, split up by language.[citation needed]
  • 2001: A Lithuanian version of the song, "Kelelis tolimas", was released by Lithuanian singer Virgis Stakėnas.
  • 2005: American country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton recorded an album including folk and pop songs from the 1960s and 1970s. This was the opening song and title track to her album Those Were the Days.[50] Mary Hopkin provided backing vocals to this recording.[citation needed]
  • 2007: Japanese vocalist Noriko Mitose included a version on her 2007 album Cotton, 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.[51]
  • 2019: British folk artist Laura Marling covered "Those Were the Days" as part of a companion album to the film Roma.[52]

See also edit

References edit

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  2. ^ Kay, Hilary (1992). Rock & Roll Memorabilia: A History of Rock Mementos With over 600 Illustrations. Prentice Hall. p. 174. ISBN 978-0671-77931-3. The Hopkin single, a McCartney-produced traditional Russian folk song, knocked Apple 1 ("Hey Jude") off the U.K. top slot.
  3. ^ Spizer, Bruce. "An Apple a Day: Mary Hopkin – Post Card". Beatlesnews.com. Retrieved 1 June 2013. Mary Hopkin's debut single paired "Those Were The Days," a Lithuanian folk song adapted by American Gene Raskin
  4. ^ a b "An Industry Report on France". Billboard. 14 July 1973. p. 42. ISSN 0006-2510.
  5. ^ "Topic: Дорогой длинною" [Topic: By the long road]. SecondHandSongs. Retrieved 19 June 2010.
  6. ^ "Recording: Дорогой длинною - Alexander Vertinsky". SecondHandSongs. Retrieved 19 June 2010.
  7. ^ Miles, Barry (1997). Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. Secker & Warburg. p. 455.
  8. ^ Perrone, Pierre (18 June 2004). . The Independent. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008.
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  17. ^ "Euro karaoke: how to sing along with the fans". UEFA. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  18. ^ "Nando's axes Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe 'dictator' advert". BBC News. 2 November 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
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  49. ^ Janjatović, Petar (2007). EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006. Belgrade: self-released. p. 203.
  50. ^ Holland, Roger (13 January 2006). "Dolly Parton: Those Were the Days". PopMatters. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  51. ^ "Noriko Mitose - Cotton". SnowBlanc. 22 May 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  52. ^ Murphy, Sarah (23 January 2019). "'Roma' Gets Companion Album Featuring Patti Smith, Jessie Reyez, El-P, Laura Marling". Exclaim!. Retrieved 4 March 2020.

External links edit

  • Those were the days on song 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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For other songs see Those Were the Days disambiguation Those Were the Days is a song credited to Gene Raskin who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song Dorogoj dlinnoyu Romance transliteration Dorogoy dlinnoyu 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 It also deals with tavern activities which include drinking singing and dancing Those Were the Days A side label of UK singleSingle by Mary Hopkinfrom the album Post CardB side Turn Turn Turn Released30 August 1968 1 StudioEMI LondonGenreFolk 2 3 Length5 05LabelAppleSongwriter s Boris FominGene RaskinProducer s Paul McCartneyMary Hopkin singles chronology Those Were the Days 1968 Goodbye 1969 Those Were The Days Single by Sandie ShawB side Make It Go Released1968GenreEasy listeningLength3 50LabelPyeSongwriter s Boris FominGene RaskinSandie Shaw singles chronology Together 1968 Those Were The Days 1968 Monsieur Dupont 1969 Mary Hopkin s 1968 debut single of Those Were the Days which was produced by Paul McCartney of the Beatles and arranged by Richard Hewson became a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and on the Canadian RPM Magazine charts The song 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 French National Hit Parade launched by the Centre d Information et de Documentation du Disque 4 The song was featured on the US version of the debut album Post Card Contents 1 Early history 2 Later history 3 Charts Mary Hopkin version 3 1 Weekly charts 3 2 Year end charts 4 Certifications 5 Other recordings 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksEarly history editGeorgian singer Tamara Tsereteli 1900 1968 and Russian singer Alexander Vertinsky made what were probably the earliest recordings of the song in 1925 5 and 1926 6 respectively 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 of it with Gene Raskin s lyric was a chart topping hit in much of the Northern Hemisphere On most recordings of the song Raskin is credited as the sole writer even though he wrote only the later English lyrics which are not an English translation of the Russian lyrics and not the music Later history editIn the early 1960s Raskin with his wife Francesca played folk music around Greenwich Village in New York including White Horse Tavern Raskin who had grown up hearing the song and his wife wrote 7 new English lyrics to the old Russian music and then copyrighted both music and lyrics in his own name 8 The Limeliters subsequently released a recording of the song on their 1962 LP Folk Matinee 9 The Raskins were international performers and had played London s Blue Angel every year always closing their show with the song Paul McCartney frequented the club and being quite taken with the song he attempted to get several singers or groups including the early Moody Blues to record it 10 Failing at that after the formation of the Beatles own Apple Records label McCartney immediately recorded Mary Hopkin performing the song at Abbey Road Studios in London 11 He later said I thought it was very catchy it had something it was a good treatment of nostalgia Hopkin picked it up very easily as if she d known it for years 12 The song was eventually recorded in over twenty languages and by many different artists including Gene and Francesca Hopkin s recording was produced by Paul McCartney with an arrangement by Richard Hewson and became a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart In the United States 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 six weeks 13 In the Netherlands it topped the charts for two consecutive weeks 14 The Russian origin of the melody was accentuated by an instrumentation that was unusual for a top ten pop record including balalaika clarinet hammered dulcimer or cimbalom tenor banjo and children s chorus giving a klezmer feel to the song Mary Hopkin played acoustic guitar on the recording and Paul McCartney also played acoustic guitar and possibly percussion The cimbalom was played by Gilbert Webster 15 McCartney also recorded Hopkin singing Those Were the Days in other languages for release in their respective countries In Spain Que tiempo tan feliz In West Germany An jenem Tag In Italy Quelli erano giorni In France Le temps des fleursThe non English sets of lyrics were also recorded by Dalida and Sandie Shaw with Shaw recording the English lyrics as well The UK and United States recording s B side was Pete Seeger s Turn Turn Turn which had been a United States number one hit for The Byrds in 1965 Those Were the Days was catalogue number APPLE 2 The APPLE 1 number had been given to an unreleased version of Frank Sinatra s The Lady Is a Tramp recorded specially in 1968 for Maureen Starkey s 22nd birthday as a gift from Ringo Starr under the name of The Lady is a Champ It was the second single to be released on the Apple label the first Hey Jude by the Beatles had retained the sequential catalogue numbers used by Parlophone in the UK and Capitol in the US Hopkin s 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 record the song by her management feeling that it should be done by a real singer Shaw s version was released as a single but did not match the success of Hopkin s version At the peak of the song s success a New York company used the melody in a commercial for Rokeach gefilte fish arguing that the tune was an old Russian folk tune and thus in the public domain The commercial included the line The perfect dish Rokeach Gefilte Fish where the English language song 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 after Hopkin s contract with Apple ended Those Were the Days and Goodbye were re recorded with producer Tony Visconti whom she had married in 1971 These re recorded versions can be found on music compilations On 25 October 2010 Apple Records released Come and Get It The Best of Apple Records which included the original recordings of Those Were the Days and Goodbye The greatest hits compilation album contained songs by artists signed to the Beatles Apple record label between 1968 and 1973 the first such multi artist Apple compilation On Christmas 1969 the President of Equatorial Guinea Francisco Macias Nguema had 150 alleged coup plotters executed in the national stadium while the amplifier system played the Mary Hopkin recording of Those Were the Days 16 The tune of Those Were the Days is used for the Republic of Ireland football chant Come On You Boys in Green 17 In 2011 Hopkin s version of the song was used by Nando s South Africa in a satirical advertisement featuring Robert Mugabe as the Last Dictator Standing The advert was axed quickly due to controversy and condemnation from pro Mugabe loyalists 18 Charts Mary Hopkin version editWeekly charts edit Chart 1968 1969 PeakpositionAustralia Kent Music Report 19 2Austria O3 Austria Top 40 20 2Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 21 1Canada Top Singles RPM 22 1Denmark 23 1Finland 24 1France CIDD 4 1Germany 25 1Ireland IRMA 26 1Japan Oricon Singles Chart 27 1Netherlands Dutch Top 40 28 2Netherlands Single Top 100 14 1New Zealand 29 1Norway VG lista 30 1Poland 31 1South Africa Springbok Radio 24 2Spain AFE 32 1Sweden 33 1Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 34 1UK Singles OCC 35 1US Billboard Easy Listening 36 1US Billboard Hot 100 36 2US Cash Box 37 1US Record World 38 1West Germany Official German Charts 39 1Chart 2009 PeakpositionBelgium Back Catalogue Singles Flanders 40 25 Year end charts edit Chart 1968 RankBelgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 41 8Canada Top Singles RPM 42 16Netherlands Dutch Top 40 43 5Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 44 9US Billboard Hot 100 45 30US Cash Box 46 22Certifications editRegion Certification Certified units salesUnited States RIAA 47 Gold 1 000 000 Shipments figures based on certification alone Other recordings edit1959 Theodore Bikel recorded the song in its original Russian language version 48 1968 The French version of the song Le temps des fleurs was popularized by the international recording star Dalida She also recorded the song in Italian and German citation needed 1968 A Swedish version of the song Ja det var da was released by Swedish singer Anita Lindblom citation needed 1968 a Finnish version of the song Oi niita aikoja was released by the Finnish singer Paivi Paunu citation needed 1968 The Serbo Croatian version of the song To su bili dani was released by the Yugoslav all female rock band Sanjalice 49 In 1968 American singer Johnny Mathis released the album Those Were The Days which featured the title song as the first track In the 1960s Mary Hopkin and Sandie Shaw also sang the song in English and French as well as in Italian Spanish and German Both Shaw s and Hopkin s versions were released around the same time as a sort of competition between the two to see whose single would fare better with the public When Hopkin s album Post Card 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 split up by language citation needed 2001 A Lithuanian version of the song Kelelis tolimas was released by Lithuanian singer Virgis Stakenas 2005 American country singer songwriter Dolly Parton recorded an album including folk and pop songs from the 1960s and 1970s This was the opening song and title track to her album Those Were the Days 50 Mary Hopkin provided backing vocals to this recording citation needed 2007 Japanese vocalist Noriko Mitose included a version on her 2007 album Cotton 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 51 2019 British folk artist Laura Marling covered Those Were the Days as part of a companion album to the film Roma 52 See also editApple Records discography List of Cash Box Top 100 number one singles of 1968 List of number one adult contemporary singles of 1968 U S List of number one singles of 1968 Canada List of number one hits of 1968 Germany List of number one 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 UK charts and number one singles 1952 1969 VG lista 1964 to 1994References edit Miles Barry 2001 The 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