Mary Hopkin - Let My Name Be Sorrow

[IanAlmond]

They shouldn't be allowed to play songs that sad by a voice that powerful. I'm all depressed now. !-(

[leopili100]

pues parece que un bajo del cielo a cantarnos una linda melodia

[Kuramochi0214]

cont'd verdions too. I know Mary sang it in Japanese and it is the only one recording she sang in Japanese. And i know a Japanese guy saying with him the most best song of Mary's is this one. Thanks for leaving lovely comment. Regards, Tomoya xx.

[Kuramochi0214]

@hardyft1 I like both Mary's and Francios

[hardyfh1]

This is a quality song. It doesn't surprise me that it didn't go down so well with the public, it is very elegant and refined. I know the song from the great Francoise Hardy's attempt to break into the English market, If You Listen. I'm afraid such songs are not obvious enough for immediate impact and are likely to get drowned out. I believe Tony Visconti recognised the quality when he heard Francoise's version and brought it to Mary. Both versions should be better known than they are.

[54musiclover]

This got panned by the critics in 1971 and I have to say I agreed with them at the time. Not now, what a great song. maturity brings greater appreciation.

[Kuramochi0214]

More recently Mary Hopkin Music will release CD "Spirits" in this September!!

[Kuramochi0214]

Cont'd. Apple-remasters, papersleeved, "Post Card" and "Earth "

[Kuramochi0214]

@bstarzewski Thanks for leaving comment. The newest telease info. The Apple remastered CDs,

[bstarzewski]

Amazing! She has lost nothing and if anything is richer and more soulful. I must have her new CDs!

[88atrain]

this shit got jackd by HIP-HOP good day !!

[wobbles48]

never heard this before,amazing song,fantastic voice,loved it

[london2z]

Beautiful song! Sad and enchanting- and first time I heard it. Mary is a goddess, and so awesome.

[Kuramochi0214]

@talentrading yes! Ive bought You look Familiar, new Post Card & new Earth Song / Ocean Song altogether in this coupke of months. This dong is included as a bonus track in the new Earth Song / Ocean Song. You Look Familiar is very nice with her and her familys rainbow coloured fantastic songs. All the best, Tomoya

[talenttrading]

Thankyou for posting this song! I love to listen to her music. She has a new CD called "You Look Familiar"

[gorilla199]

AHO (AXO)

Jesus is on his way!

[TheIntenseness]

i'm turned on!

[dennischungcf]

I heard Mary's famous songs when I was young but I didn't know that is her. Her voice sounds like from an angel of Heaven . I heard the "Goodbye" again two weeks' ago and I was amazed with her voice and lovely face(the 1st time that I see). It's a sweet song by a sweet girl.

[1956lakota]

MARY IS STILL AS LOVELY AS ALWAYS AND CAN STILL SING LIKE AN ANGEL.

HAVE YOU HEARD HER NEWER SONGS? GIVE HER A LISTEN.

[redivan678]

@1956lakota. I never did, but i will :)

[mussy302]

Tommy, please leave this video on you tube for ever!!

[mussy302]

Please leave this video on you tube Tommy, many of us love it!

[MrNickthebrief69]

Beautiful song but prefer sparrow

[bendix2000]

FANTASTIC CLIP......WELL DONE!!!

[Kuramochi0214]

@bendix2000

Thanks your comment is my pleasure.

Tommy

[Kuramochi0214]

@bendix2000

Thanks. Your comment is my pleasure.

Tommy

[brigo83]

wonderful voice and beautiful woman!!!!

[Kuramochi0214]

Mary is my everlasing sweetheat.

Tommy

On the day...the night...the Socker Game.

[1956lakota]

When I was a kid me and all my buddies thought Mary was the most beautiful woman we ever saw. I am 54 and Mary is still a beauty and her music is as lovely as ever, I still love her voice, she will forever be a star to me.

[Kuramochi0214]

@1956lakota

Me too. Mary is the everlasting diva and a star to me!

Tommy

[redivan678]

@1956lakota

Im not 54, but 22y.o. but i think that same as you thought.

Mary from 1970 is much much more beautiful that girls from now...

I would give everything to find a girl for me like Mary was then...

[Eggmarket01]

This is a heavenly song ....

[qtlollipopgirl]

wow amazing ~!

[fransie07]

is this a new song?

amazing

[himself801]

Mary Hopkin - Let My Name Be Sorrow is one of her recordings made while signed to Apple 68 - 71. It does appear on the collection " Those Were the Days"

[simaritalia]

piu la ascolto piu mi piace

[mahvachcheidani]

my name is sorrow and i weep on this

[sjchell]

wrong question..lol

[trotter23]

her dad was the bloke who played albert tatlock on coronation street not a lot of people know that

[1964happyman]

No he wasn't !

[acdeucee]

Bravo! Finally a long time coming. She is mezmerizing..Like a snake charmer wrangling in a Cobra. She is like no other

[rutharuth]

Amazing!

[Kuramochi0214]

Yes she is amazing. Her Japanese version of this song is too amazing.

Tommy

[VealParmigiana]

Another song in which Mary creates a haunting effect. One of the few singers who has the timing and vocal control to do this well.

[Kuramochi0214]

I agree with you. Another many songs she did.

Tommy

[simaritalia]

mery hopkins vorrei conoscerti

[Kuramochi0214]

Grazie!

Tommy

[turkkisydamessani]

Voice like crystal...

[Kuramochi0214]

Thanks for your lovely comment!

What kind of Stones?

Crystal means no colour transparent crystals?

The violet crystals are of my choice, OK?

Tommy

[turkkisydamessani]

I meant a voice like clear crystal (transparent pure crystal..) Her voice is like that I think..

[Kuramochi0214]

Oh I understood !

No colour clear transparent one I think too is really fitted with Mary !

Tommy

[mussy302]

I Haven't heard this song for years, i forgot just how great it is, and just what a stunning voice mary has. After hearing it again i cant get it out of my head!!

[Kuramochi0214]

Thanks for your lovely comment mussy302 ;D

I love this Mary. Really beautiful and womanish!

The Japanese version (at my ch.) and French version (at richpat ch.) are too beautiful. Enjoy them too. Mary sings not with karaoke but sings with real band there!! This means these songs are different from TWTD.

cont'd.

[Kuramochi0214]

cont'd. from above.

In my country Toshiba-EMI releases 3 Apple Days albums of Mary's as special so called paper sleeved issues in fall 2005. They ARE still today available at certain disc stores nearby (but efforts needed to find them, luckiness and tolerance of my feet ;D". Maybe re-release will be made shortly.

Tommy

[mussy302]

Hi Tommy, i'll most certainly check out these other versions. Maybe we should lobby Toshiba-EMI and get all of mary's songs re-released!!

[Kuramochi0214]

hi mussy302,

Well I have thought that Toshiba-EMI always re-releases Mary's 3 Apple days' albums nearly when almost all stores have no stocks of them. At neighbor town I met 2 of them in this April. The latest re-releases were in 2005 (paper-sleeved special) and in 2007 (limited ed. album Those Were The Days), I know.

Tommy

[JNN0709]

What a amazing voice she has! I seems like that she's voice belong to heaven..

[Kuramochi0214]

Yes, JNN0709.

She is an angel, my everlasting sweetheart.

All the best,

Tommy

[pontedupre009]

Never heard of her before..... but this girl has the voice of an Angel.

Beautiful music !!!!!!!

Who is she ? Where is she from? Is she a current artist ?

[Kuramochi0214]

She is Mary Hopkin, my everlasting sweetheart. Her "Those Were The Days" / Turn! Turn! Turn (B-side) is my first purchased 45 r.p.m. record, that was really world-wide No.1 hit then (in 1968, arranged and produced by Paul MacCartney as one of 4 releases from the Apple Ltd. estimated by the Beatles.

She is Welsh and grown in welsh-speaking family. She is so talented artist then I have never met any lovely lady until now.

Tommy

from the Far East

[richpat]

She has an official website at

maryhopkinDOTcom

She has some new cd's available now and another new one out in May

all the best

Pat

maryhopkinDOTnet

[Kuramochi0214]

Visit Mary's own level shown in my information collum or at Ms. richpat's replying.

First time I met her trademark MHM emblem, "MHM" lady, I have understood MARY WEARS KIMONO, Japanese traditional formal dress!

I really have seen the MHM-emblem like Japanese papercraft work, origami, at a craftart shop in Japan, in my country, though I even now I have no idear where can I buy the origami work in Tokyo.

Do you have any idea, for Pat/

All th best,

Tommy

[VealParmigiana]

Outstanding recording.

[Kuramochi0214]

Thanks and welcome!

Enjoy her Japanese version, too.

Tommy

[Virpatrick]

While I do welcome your thumbs up ☺!♪

.....I meant to say VOICE...not vice...

♫ary Hopkin ♥♪

Peace , L♥ve & ♫usic

[erniemajor]

She needs no words at all...just that deeply sincere voice, so beautiful...

[Kuramochi0214]

Yes, no word needed. Lovely voice and so beautiful.

I have this Scandinavian-made round sofa, found and bought more than ten years ago at a department store at Ikebukuro, Tokyo.

[Virpatrick]

Angel!

I'm still in love with you and your beautiful vice. ♪

[Kuramochi0214]

Thank you for lovely comment.

[23751]

what a great song from mary, she really did have a lovely voice.

[Kuramochi0214]

Thanks.

She DOES have a fantastic voice.

[toshiakinagaoka]

この歌が、メリー・ホップキンの代表曲だな。俺の中では。

[Kuramochi0214]

いいですよね！

日本語バージョンの歌詞も素晴らしいです。

This sounds very sweet and lovely!

The Japanese lyrics is too nice.

Thanks for your good commenting.

[gstuart01]

Ive never seen anyone so beautiful. In this anything goes, if it feels good do it, low class culture damned world, she is a light more brilliant than the sun to show forth the Son. Amen.

[Kuramochi0214]

Yes, she IS!

Thanks for your lovely comment.

[RAWRAMP1]

truly a great singer,with such feeling in her voice..beautiful.pete

[Kuramochi0214]

Yes, truly beautiful voice!

Here in Japan, Apple and its agent (then Toshiba) released in English and in Japanese versions. So, "Let my name be sorrow in Japanese is the only one song Mary sang in Japanese! It's too very beautiful.

Tommy

[bryanhudsonyork]

Mary was born in Pontardawe, Wales to a Welsh-speaking family. She released an EP of Welsh language songs for a local record label called Cambrian who were based in her home town, before signing to the Beatles' Apple Records. The model Twiggy saw her winning the British ITV television talent show Opportunity Knocks and recommended her to Paul McCartney.[1] She became one of the first artists to record on the Beatles' Apple record label.

[Kuramochi0214]

Thank you very much for your correct and good informations.

"Mary was born and grown in a Welsh-speaking family" IS maybe very important, since English for her was a secod (foreign) language. This makes her singing in English very beautiful and very easy to listening to for me and people who are not native English speakers, I think.

[Kuramochi0214]

I don't know exactly. But I know Mary likes this photo because she has used this for her first album from her own lebel Mary Hopkin Music.

I think this was taken for her second single "Goodbye" in around 1969 by Linda, Macca's beloved wife.

[ohad3210]

Do you can tell me if that tears is real?

Which scene it's conected?

[maningreen7]

Thankyou for posting.Although the song shows what Mary can do with her voice it was more a "b"side than an "a"side.Speaking of b sides in Britain the b side to this song was Kew Gardens.That song introduced me to the rest of Ralph McTells songwriting and records.Its cost me a fortune!

[Kuramochi0214]

I understand what you are going to say.

But I love this sweet womanish voice too.

[rerl60s]

Of Course this kind of music could never have been a top hit. I bought the Album and fell in love with that sad beautiful song. It's just excellent.

Funny to learn that after all these years I find it on youtube posted in Japan!

I'm from Germany and thank you a lot Kuramochi.

[Kuramochi0214]

Thank you for nice commenting, rer60s!

I am a fan since the "Those were the days" was released (in 1968). I attended her valued live at Osaka Expo in 1970. This song was released about one year later after the live at Osaka. Two versions were released in Japan, one is in Japanese and the other in English.

This is the only one song Mary sang in Japanese, so I thought that it was my duty, as a sincere fan for Mary, to post this song in both languages.

Tomoya

[PertlyDaft]

But when this was released in June of 1971 Mary was still on top and had never yet had a flop and in the British music papers reviews of new singles this was considered a hit for example in Record Mirror. This was released the same week as the headlines stated that Mary Hopkin was going to change style and pure image from cabaret to folk, but as the reporter wrote, "not on record".

[PertlyDaft]

This was never released in the US and in the UK it only got to nr 46 in the charts for one week

[Kuramochi0214]

Why not released in the US?

In Japan the agent Toshiba (now Toshiba-EMI) strongly recommended and did arrangement with Mary directly to release her "Que sera, sera" (when the Expo Tour)...I hear.

[CptSato]

I listened to this song evident before and thought of it wonderfully.

Probably this song is big hit of UK chart than US chart?

[Kuramochi0214]

Maybe so.

I don't know the exact chart for this in UK.

According to the package insert (Toshiba-EMI, Those were the days, written in Japanese), there I see #46 in UK.

The reason is I think a little (or no) promotion had been made.

[pennymusicMAma]

Kuramochi0214/tomoro,

"Let My Name be SORROW" - how you say in Japanese? So Beautiful to me! - Penny

[Kuramochi0214]

私を　watashi o (me)

哀しみと　kanashimi to (sorrow)

呼んで　yonde (let name)

It appears at second title in blue letters.

Lyrics in Japanese is more serious since "Name change" means "Mrs.XX to Miss YY".

To whom in Japanese is for everyone while in English is for the lover.

[PertlyDaft]

But didn't she had more hits than "Days" in Japan?

[Kuramochi0214]

I have only found "the top #20 weekly list" for that days from the website now. Detailed charts are supplied as written materials, then I need further library work, I shall do it however.

From available information on the web, Mary's next single "Good bye/Sparrow" was released on 1/4/1969 and entered the top #20 chart 26/5/69 and kept within top #20 for 7 weeks. The highest position was #13.

[pennymusicMAma]

REPLY for Kuramochio214, In confirmed Support

of You, Paul McCartney, a musical collegue & friend, Composed: "Goodbye" & helped Mary in

recording this sweet song. - Penny

[Kuramochi0214]

Thanks for commenting, Carmen Cecilia & Lai.

Last 5 photos were taken in Kyoto and Suita/Osaka when Mary come to my country at her live at Osaka Expo'70.

Memorials of her 20 and single days.

She is really beautiful.

[LaiYouttitham]

Wow! that was beautiful thank you for sharing!

Lai.

[PertlyDaft]

tO Kuramochi0214:

I am a chart freak and want to know how Mary fared in the Japanese charts how many how high and when?

[Kuramochi0214]

OK, PertyDaft.

I promise to make a research!

However please recognize this need a lot of time.

[Kuramochi0214]

For Mary's "Those were the days". Only limited information available from the website. I need maybe a library work but I will :D Single "Those were the days/Turn!Turn!Turn!" released on 05/12/68. 16/12/68 #18 23/12/68 #6 30/12/68 #2 06/01/69 #3 13/01/69 #2 20/01/69 #2 27/01/69 #1 and next 9 wks keep whithin #20. Hey Jude was released ealier on 10/09/68, the highest position was #5. There was large language gap at that time. Almost all songs other than these two hits are Japanese POPs.

[richpat]

Excellent information KU thank you so much

[carmenclinvep]

Very nice song and voice

Thanks for sharing

5*****

Carmen Cecilia

[whchanhk]

Thanks for posting this alternative version again. Can you tell me some information about this slow version? Both two versions are excellent. Thanks again.

[Kuramochi0214]

Just my mistake.Both were from one same sauce.

I am not familiar to the mixture software then the whole period is 120%-rate slowly played in that slow version. I listened to the slow version so repeatedly that made me that was correct, since Mary's voice was just sweet enough and of her own in that slow version...

Please apologise.

[bestiaccia]

Thanks for sharing!

[22Marcella]

gracias

:)

kisses

[ZuzaoDigital]

Very good, 5*****

[pennymusicMAma]

Kuramochio214, ARIGATO! Tommy. I rated it a 5*****.

She so resembles me in this. - Love, Penny

[pennymusicMAma]

Love this! - Penny

[whchanhk]

You have deleted the version which you posted a few days ago. That version is so different from the version of CD 'Those were The Days'. pls post again, thanks.

[Kuramochi0214]

Do you like the slow version?

I have just hidden it as private one.

OK. I will make it public again.

Is this one more sweeter than the former?

[pennymusicMAma]

Thank You/ARIGATO, Tommy! - Love, Penny

[Kuramochi0214]

Slower tempo corrected version.

The former one still I have for my guilty pleasure.