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Mary Hopkin sings “Those Were The Days”, 1968 live performance (video)
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| 5/2/2016
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Posted on 05/02/2016 7:04:29 AM PDT by simpson96
Hope you enjoy. Those Were the Days
TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: music; thosewerethedays
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:04:29 AM PDT
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simpson96
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:04:57 AM PDT
by
simpson96
To: simpson96
Those were the days of crotch-high skirts.
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:10:14 AM PDT
by
fwdude
To: simpson96
Her song came out days after the Soviet army invaded Czechoslovakia and crushed the “Prague Spring” of Alexander Dubcek. It was an eerie coincidence.
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:11:02 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: simpson96
Darogi Dalneyu
Tune totally lifted from a Russian Song.
I used to sing it in both Russian and English to the delight of elderly Russians. :-)
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:11:51 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: simpson96
Her version produced by Paul McCartney.
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:16:35 AM PDT
by
BlueStateRightist
(Government is best which governs least.)
To: simpson96
Beautiful song, translated but still sounding so Russian!
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:17:02 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
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To: simpson96
Good ol’ Mary Hopkiins. She was what they used to call a “songbird”.
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:18:38 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: simpson96
Wondering how someone in her twenties back in the mid-sixties, so adorable with such classic Welsh Celtic features, would age? Wonderfully as it turned out.
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:19:11 AM PDT
by
katana
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:19:25 AM PDT
by
Buttons12
( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
To: left that other site
Not exactly “lifted” - it IS the Russian song, and understood as such, although the lyrics are not a direct translation.
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:21:22 AM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: simpson96
Thanks to Youtube, there are finally faces attached to all the old songs I use to hear. Thanks to Sirius radio too, they have every era of songs than you can choose from.
To: elcid1970
If I’m not mistaken it was sung in Brothers Karamazov, the version with Yul Brynner and Claire Bloom?
Only watched it once...while being spoonfed Dostoyevsky. Did not like. :(
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:22:17 AM PDT
by
Buttons12
( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
To: jjotto
Well, that’s why I sang it in both languages! LOL! :-)
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:22:27 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Buttons12
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:23:15 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Buttons12
If it wasn’t a memorial to Prague ‘68, it sounded like one:
“We’d lead the life we choose, we’d fight and never lose...”
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:26:19 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: simpson96
The original version, from the Soviet Union:
Dorogoi Dlinnoyu (by the long road)--Alexander Vertinskii (1926)
To: BlueStateRightist
I believe she was one of the first, if not the first, signed to Apple Records after its formation by the Beatles.
One of those songs that is unrelentingly sad but all the more beautiful for it.
The Ventures did an excellent instrumental (natch) cover on their 10th Anniversary Album which also contained numerous others from 1968 - it seemed to have been a banner year for music.
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:36:32 AM PDT
by
relictele
(Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
To: simpson96
The folk equivalent of “It’s a Small World”
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posted on
05/02/2016 7:39:30 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: simpson96
Thanks for posting this.
I like Mary Hopkin's version better than the Russian version because all of us aging English speakers can relate better to her version.
If you are a Russian, that original Russian version should have a lot of meaning and be more popular with them. -Tom
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