There was always something so beautiful about Mary--she never lost any of her charm (and I'm sure she retains it to this day) Long Live The Welsh Angel:)
yeah that is right mary hopkins really is a very beautiful woman besides that also sings very nice by the way where is she from and how many languages does she know to speak
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REPLY richpat, How i wish could confirm this,
I have a feeling Paul did, but I was off to
college @ the time & am not certain without a
doubt. I may try to find out from Paul, my friend. However he did arrange the song before - "Those Were The Days", for her & worked with Mary Hopkin in those days. I loved his musical ballades, as well.
Thank you. Will research... & ask... But I'think'he did. - Penny
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RESPONSE tp NAYSAYERS: Paul McCartney, my musical colleague, did work with Mary Hopkin- He composed "Goodbye" & helped her record it & also "Those Were the Days". No reason to
@pennymusicMAma I think it's because everybody knows what you have already told us - its common knowledge and it didn't answer the original question at all - and nobody likes a braggart who can't back it up. I think you will find that is the reason. Just a thought.
I read that as well, I am not sure about this and would like to hear from any Macca or Beatles fans that could shed any light on it.
"Lontano" as far as Europe and some South American countries are concerned was technically her first release after Those were the days, so it is possible that he could have had a lot to do with it!
"Lontano" in the uk wasn't released until 1970 as the b side to "Temma Harbour".
I got an LP by Mary many years ago in which it is written that Paul arranged that track, but I'm NOT quite sure of it nevertheless. "Lontano" was the Apple 7 single in Italy and still have that record. The B-Side was "The Game".
It says in a book I own: A day in the life The Beatles it's like a year-by-year diary and it says that she recorded it and Paul produced it. But it doesn't say on the record who the producer is. But she sang it in Jan 69 and recorded it then and Paul was her producer then.
I know the song first as the B side to Temma Harbour, which I think was one of her last, if the last, single she released on Apple. It might have been released after Earth Song / Ocean Song album.
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Well PertlyDaft I may have been a singer in a former life but as I don't actually sing in this one - except in the shower - I don't see exactly what I have to be jealous of. If I had cause to be jealous at all, it would probably be of Judith Durham or Xtina Aguilera and not of an insignificant little cheeper like MH. Moreover if the info on your page is true, I could be your kid, so less of the senility please. Get a life!
I think jerks like dinastein44 are just jealous and envious, i know many people who cares a lot about Mary these days and I am one of them, but I forgive you it must be age and senility!!!
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gosh, Pat, what a lot of wasted energy on the Mary Hopkin site. Who gives a shit about her nowadays anyway? Come to that, who gives a shit about YOUR biography?
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Come on, the minute she left Apple nobody heard from her any more. Sure, sure, there's always excuses like raising children - lol.
God knows what drew Macca to her in the first place. He was probably glad to get rid of her. By the way you may have gathered by now that I am neither 88 or from Kasakhstan (tee hee)
Sorry lost interest now, I can't take anyone seriously who likes a band called "cradle of filth" I guess Metallica are ok I suppose, but I would stick to loud noise and leave the sopranos alone!
dinastein44 for an 88 year old Kazakhstani your a very opinionated elderly person, you must know her very well to say she is a "crashing bore" and your previous comment about her singing in Italian, well all British performers in those days recorded foreign language songs it was a well ridden bandwagon so blame the industry not the performer.. Be a little more constructive with your comments and not so personal.
Like you Pat I'm trying to work out dinostein's previous remark "if Paul McCartney hadnt started her career she would have remained an anonymous provincial singer". The reason he signed her to Apple was a recommendation from Twiggy who had seen Mary Hopkin perform ,not in a provincial club but on NATIONAL T.V. winning a talent contest! I believe she won the public voted contest 10 weeks in a row! Hardly an anonymous singer.Already a nationally known singer before Sir Paul became involved.
Hi maningreen7, Yes I agree with you, in Wales she had already made a record and appeared on Welsh TV.
So as a Welsh person I found dinasteins "provincial" comment rather rude! how dare she describe Wales as "provincial"
This dinastein person is a very opinionated poster all over youtube, she says she has a musical background and that apparently gives her the right to be dogmatic and rude about anything she doesn't like.
When she posts on my vids i don't reply I just delete and block
Got me thinking now if it was early than the mid 90's, I will try and locate the date and post it here, it was an interview for an Italian television show about the Beatles, and quite a few other people were involved including Donovan
She never stopped recording or singing just performing, have you heard "valentine", (released this year on her own label "Mary Hopkin Music) it is wonderful,
Wow-rare footage..THANKS for posting !!
DavelovesRealMusic 1 year ago
Her Italian is very good. Brava Maria.
tenorismo 1 year ago
nel 69 ero giovane e lei era gia per me una grande
simaritalia 2 years ago
OMG, She is still as beautiful! And still has the voice!
Piercetp 2 years ago
Lovely, thank you for posting!
Dilhan777 2 years ago
There was always something so beautiful about Mary--she never lost any of her charm (and I'm sure she retains it to this day) Long Live The Welsh Angel:)
GUIDOBRAT 2 years ago 2
grande mary !!!!
simaritalia 2 years ago
And now in Italian!?
You are an angel Mary.
♪
Virpatrick 3 years ago 4
Hello Kuramochi0214,were you sat in the front row at Marys concert?
maningreen7 3 years ago 3
Yes!
The sweetest memory of mine!
Am I a lucky boy?
Tommy
Kuramochi0214 2 years ago 2
Hi Tommy,Was that your very FIRST CIONCERT?Where in the front row did you sit?
maningreen7 2 years ago
I hear Mary is now living near Italy with a swan...
I remember she spoke clearly "atsui-desu-ne" that means "it's too hot here, isn't it?" at the Expo '70 live held in Osaka, Japan.
I know she also sang "Let me name be sorrow" in Japanese (not in the live). I hear an EP record is available but I hav'nt.
Kuramochi0214 3 years ago
Thanks for your valued posting.
Mary sings so nice and she looks very beautiful.
I can remember my "the days" a long long ago with this video.
Ku from Saitama Japan.
I saw Mary at Expo'70 Osaka live.....
Kuramochi0214 3 years ago 2
yeah that is right mary hopkins really is a very beautiful woman besides that also sings very nice by the way where is she from and how many languages does she know to speak
peneparad 3 years ago 5
Mary is from Wales
richpat 3 years ago 4
REPLY: I do know for sure that my musical colleague, Paul McCartney, did arrange & produce "Those Were The Days" for Mary.
pennymusicMAma 3 years ago
You surely is? So great!
This song is too arranged and produced by Paul for Mary.
Kuramochi0214 3 years ago 3
Pennymusic
Do you have any more info about the Lontano recording
thanks
Pat
richpat 3 years ago
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REPLY richpat, How i wish could confirm this,
I have a feeling Paul did, but I was off to
college @ the time & am not certain without a
doubt. I may try to find out from Paul, my friend. However he did arrange the song before - "Those Were The Days", for her & worked with Mary Hopkin in those days. I loved his musical ballades, as well.
Thank you. Will research... & ask... But I'think'he did. - Penny
Musical Regards, Penny
pennymusicMAma 3 years ago
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RESPONSE tp NAYSAYERS: Paul McCartney, my musical colleague, did work with Mary Hopkin- He composed "Goodbye" & helped her record it & also "Those Were the Days". No reason to
vote a professional musician down. - Penny
pennymusicMAma 3 years ago
@pennymusicMAma I think it's because everybody knows what you have already told us - its common knowledge and it didn't answer the original question at all - and nobody likes a braggart who can't back it up. I think you will find that is the reason. Just a thought.
FaerieCrone 1 month ago
Shut up ya Penny Lane!
Virpatrick 3 years ago
It was produced by Paul and he or Richard Hewson arranged it, yes her first release after Those were the days
PertlyDaft 3 years ago 2
Nice, was that just a side B? I am surprised.
lilythepink123 3 years ago 4
Is it true, as I read somewhere, that Paul McCartney arranged this track? Does anyone can confirm that?
Arcanciel57 4 years ago 2
I read that as well, I am not sure about this and would like to hear from any Macca or Beatles fans that could shed any light on it.
"Lontano" as far as Europe and some South American countries are concerned was technically her first release after Those were the days, so it is possible that he could have had a lot to do with it!
"Lontano" in the uk wasn't released until 1970 as the b side to "Temma Harbour".
richpat 4 years ago 2
I got an LP by Mary many years ago in which it is written that Paul arranged that track, but I'm NOT quite sure of it nevertheless. "Lontano" was the Apple 7 single in Italy and still have that record. The B-Side was "The Game".
Arcanciel57 4 years ago 2
"The game" was a b side for "Prince En Avignon" Apple 9 as well.
richpat 4 years ago 3
It says in a book I own: A day in the life The Beatles it's like a year-by-year diary and it says that she recorded it and Paul produced it. But it doesn't say on the record who the producer is. But she sang it in Jan 69 and recorded it then and Paul was her producer then.
PertlyDaft 3 years ago 3
I know the song first as the B side to Temma Harbour, which I think was one of her last, if the last, single she released on Apple. It might have been released after Earth Song / Ocean Song album.
njnorth1 2 years ago
I'm referring to US releases.
njnorth1 2 years ago
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Yes dear, you reached second that year, but thanks to the author of the song, the great Sergio Endrigo...
Arcanciel57 4 years ago
A lovely composer indeed... But the song came second and Mary won best performer....
richpat 4 years ago 3
I have a life and a good one at that I just want people to be goog
PertlyDaft 4 years ago 2
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me too love, i just don't see the connection between being good and expressing ones perfectly legitimate opinion, do you?
dinastein44 4 years ago
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Well PertlyDaft I may have been a singer in a former life but as I don't actually sing in this one - except in the shower - I don't see exactly what I have to be jealous of. If I had cause to be jealous at all, it would probably be of Judith Durham or Xtina Aguilera and not of an insignificant little cheeper like MH. Moreover if the info on your page is true, I could be your kid, so less of the senility please. Get a life!
dinastein44 4 years ago
I think jerks like dinastein44 are just jealous and envious, i know many people who cares a lot about Mary these days and I am one of them, but I forgive you it must be age and senility!!!
PertlyDaft 4 years ago 5
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gosh what a predictable answer lol nice try richpat
dinastein44 4 years ago
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gosh, Pat, what a lot of wasted energy on the Mary Hopkin site. Who gives a shit about her nowadays anyway? Come to that, who gives a shit about YOUR biography?
dinastein44 4 years ago
Well obviously you do as you bothered to go there, but thanks for visiting please do call again!
richpat 4 years ago
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Come on, the minute she left Apple nobody heard from her any more. Sure, sure, there's always excuses like raising children - lol.
God knows what drew Macca to her in the first place. He was probably glad to get rid of her. By the way you may have gathered by now that I am neither 88 or from Kasakhstan (tee hee)
dinastein44 4 years ago
Sorry lost interest now, I can't take anyone seriously who likes a band called "cradle of filth" I guess Metallica are ok I suppose, but I would stick to loud noise and leave the sopranos alone!
richpat 4 years ago 3
Oh yes and the observation of your age and nationality was supposed to be sarcasm, but I guess that went way over your head!
richpat 4 years ago 2
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The woman is a crashing bore. If Paul McCartney hadn't started up her career she would have remained an anonymous provincial singer.
dinastein44 4 years ago
dinastein44 for an 88 year old Kazakhstani your a very opinionated elderly person, you must know her very well to say she is a "crashing bore" and your previous comment about her singing in Italian, well all British performers in those days recorded foreign language songs it was a well ridden bandwagon so blame the industry not the performer.. Be a little more constructive with your comments and not so personal.
richpat 4 years ago 3
Like you Pat I'm trying to work out dinostein's previous remark "if Paul McCartney hadnt started her career she would have remained an anonymous provincial singer". The reason he signed her to Apple was a recommendation from Twiggy who had seen Mary Hopkin perform ,not in a provincial club but on NATIONAL T.V. winning a talent contest! I believe she won the public voted contest 10 weeks in a row! Hardly an anonymous singer.Already a nationally known singer before Sir Paul became involved.
maningreen7 2 years ago
Hi maningreen7, Yes I agree with you, in Wales she had already made a record and appeared on Welsh TV.
So as a Welsh person I found dinasteins "provincial" comment rather rude! how dare she describe Wales as "provincial"
This dinastein person is a very opinionated poster all over youtube, she says she has a musical background and that apparently gives her the right to be dogmatic and rude about anything she doesn't like.
When she posts on my vids i don't reply I just delete and block
richpat 2 years ago
Imagine Brittany Spears trying to sing this one? LMAO!
ZIPPTPH77 4 years ago 3
Disaster.
whchanhk 4 years ago 2
It would be fun to watch though.... LOL
ZIPPTPH77 4 years ago
I think the interview was made in late 80 or early 90, can someone post the complete interview, thanks a lot.
whchanhk 4 years ago
Got me thinking now if it was early than the mid 90's, I will try and locate the date and post it here, it was an interview for an Italian television show about the Beatles, and quite a few other people were involved including Donovan
richpat 4 years ago 2
whoa....i think i'm in love! lol
breeeegs 4 years ago 2
She is lovely, be it 1969 or 2007! When was the "later" clip taken?
MuscleJacker 4 years ago 2
During the Mid 90's Around 94/95
richpat 4 years ago 2
thanks for posting
gomer9000 4 years ago
She never stopped recording or singing just performing, have you heard "valentine", (released this year on her own label "Mary Hopkin Music) it is wonderful,
richpat 4 years ago
I love this song and this film clip, thanks for posting
richpat 4 years ago