Thank you richpat for contacting me. I see you have a good taste in vocalists of the "pop" music genre.I am glad to hear she is alive and doing well. Her voice is one of those musical instruments that when experienced you never forget it. Plus the way she sings a particular song like "Lord of the Reedy River" demonstrates her mastery of the craft. I am glad to contact people who truly appreciate good vocalists and music. Keep listening!
I remember listening to this song in the radio back in 1969. I was but a child yet I recognized a master vocalist when I heard her. There is something very British about this vocalist it is as if she is the personification of British womanhood. Both culturally and phonetically she sounds like the standard by which all British vocalists should be judged. No wonder Paul Mac Cartney of the Beatles was captivated by her voice.
this is one of my favorite songs because it's so meaningful. Those WERE the days, you can't relive them so enjoy each moment, because before you'd notice, you'd realize you miss the days and wish you can go back.
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
In '68 when song became popular oh could I identify with! Summer,seashore,sing a long pubs,mates,girlfriends and that most special love. What a time....... Then return to Vietnam, combat, firefights, death, loneliness and finally a "Dear John". Ah to be able to go back and change the ending. Not to be......The pubs,most of the mates and the girl...long gone. But oh those memories! At least I'll always have them
@AshJoLen The melody is indeed Russian but ‘Those were the days’ is not a translation from the Russian song Dorogoy Dlinnoyu which means along a long road. An American Gene Raskin, wrote the lyrics for the song ‘Those were the days’ using the music from Fomins Dorogoy Dlinnoyu. The song in Russian Дорогой длинною, was written by Boris Fomin in the early 1900's with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii. Raskins lyrics are not a literal translation from Podrevskiis
those days i was in DC and after college i use to go to a cafeeria with a friend and put this song in those machines with records after some years i came back to my home land Mexico and i still can remember thank you
I can remember this song from my days in the early 70's in this underground bar in Wash DC. The later it got the drunker we got and the more they played this song. Little did I reallize this was the theme song of my youth.
"Dorogoy dlinnoyu" (Дорогой длинною) Is not a poem the music was written by Boris Fomin in the early 1900's with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii. The first known recording was by Alexander Vertinski,
An American Gene Raskin wrote the lyrics for the song "Those were the days" he used the melody only from the song "Dorogoy dlinnoyu"
The best song ever according to the most visiters are Led Zeppelin´s "Stairway To Heaven". This russian song can´t compair to that, but when the young Welsh talent Mary Hopkin sings this song in a way that no one else can (not even Dolly Parton) the puzzle are forfilled and make this special song definitely on the top 100 list of the best and beatyfulest songs ever. It is not difficult to understand why the Beatles Paul McCartney produced this song. 1968.
@Beaumomtamoros Wow I haven't heard of too many people who got the opportunity to see mary Hopkin singing live on stage, I am so, so impressed. Please tell me more. Where and when did you see her? did you manage to record the show? Did you get any pictures of her? would love to hear more from you.
@Beaumomtamoros Ah my mistake, I just checked your profile, you are only 35 and were not born when mary started out in 1968 at the age of 18. Also she charted many times between 68 and 72, when she gave up 'show biz'
The reason you haven't heard of too many people having the opportunity to have seen this woman is because she is a one hit wonder with no stage presence. You just proved my point richpat.
@Beaumomtamoros This is the problem trying to have coherent conversations when the other has no knowledge of the artiste in question. You are from the USA, Mary is British. She only promoted her first 2 songs those were the days and Goodbye in the US which bte got into YOUR top tewnty in 69, which proves she was not a 1 hit wonder. She had 5 top twenty hits here in the UK before she choose to leave show business.
@Freyja1133 - 1964. And when you consider that the trends that emerged in the Sixties, that we consider as typical of the Sixties, lasted well into the chronological Seventies, I got to see it all unfold. I was much happier when the Eighties started.
@Freyja1133 - 1964. When were you born, and what difference does it make? When you consider that the trends that emerged in the Sixties, that we consider as typical of the Sixties, lasted well into the chronological Seventies, I got to see it all unfold. I was much happier when the Eighties started.
This tune was one of the turn on songs to grow out of "old school music" that I was introduced to and ~ grew out with,, but kept in the background...~ mary hopkins, pablov's dog, savoy brown, jimi hendrix, traffic, hairy bellafante... _____ ______ (can't remember one of the most important...).. yes!!!!!!!!!! and old school music seemed to go together,, just when I started hearing Mary Hopkins,, it all went togethert...
Hadn't though of this song in quite a while, but hearing it takes me back to my childhood. (Not in a tavern, though of course. Mom would have killed me.) Sometimes those old tavern songs are truly the best.
@Ness88tren omg do not apologise to someone so rude they are the ones that need to learn YT is not just for english speakers and there are such things as translate buttons
i'm 14 my piano teacher was like 5 in the 60's he said. i bought a book for piano and this was inside it and he was like omg never seen any1 like that i plaed it listened to and was like awesome. THOSE MUST OF BEEN THE DAYS! we changed so much but this is always gr8 i love it so much gonna put a piano cover of this for myy piano teacher. he rocks
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@Ness88tren why dont you learn to write in English you Russian ballsack CockTsar Mary Hopkins is singing the song in English why dont you comment in English or go listen to Tsachovskys versions of this?
Wonderful song and it's great to sing at parties where the chorus gets louder and longer each time. Few people manage the high vocal at the extro but it's just so much fun.
This song belongs to Dalida originally (le temps des fleurs) sung in 1967, this version recorded in 1968 as all musical encyclopedias mention. Dalida sings it much much more better in a way full of emotions
@werentthosethedays Well: in the 1910s the russian composer Boris Fomin and the poet Konstantin Podrevskij wrote a song "Dorogoj dlinnoyu", first performed by Alexandr Vertinskiy. (his record is also posted on Youtube once). Later in the 1960s Gene Raskin heard this song in Russia. He didn't knew the composer, so he through, it was a folksong. in 1962 he wrote new english lyrics, put them on the russian melody and made a new arrangement.
Great - this was one my favourite song when I was a teenie. I have it on a tape, but this is the first video i saw of - actally some months/years ago. But still: Thank you!
So brings back memories of my youth ,superb song and oh yes what a pure voice. Love all her songs..Also neva dates as I c from comments, and evokes gd memories from you all.!!!!!!!"!
Paul McCartney did not write this song - although he was the producer of Mary Hopkin's version of this song. Paul had Mary record this song in 4 languages
I guess, even through it's a very nice song, we can all this song plagiarism. In fact the author of the english lyrics Gene Raskin is mostly always credited as the writer of this song. The real composer, Boris Fomin, wasn't credited at all.
@derbedo I know. But firstly, the english lyrics are not a translation of the russian lyrics. And secondly, Boris Fomin, the composer of the melody, is not credited on the albums. Only Gene Raskin is credited. I think, they should be credited both, Fomin AND Raskin (I heard, Bad Boys Blue did it, when they covered this song).
And by the way: Mostly the people think, Mary sang the original and the don't know the Limeliters or the original song from Russia (Dorogoj dlinnoju)
Last verse, this is a literal translation of the original lyrics.
(Troika is a three horse carriage, and 7 string guitars were normal at the time the song was written. "Torture" is meant to be the 'sweet torture' of love. "Falcons" refers to young people.
Used to ride in a three-horse carriage with bells And lights were blinking in the distance I wish I could go with you, falcons To clear my soul off all my grief Refrain that long road on a moonlight night with that song that is flying away, ringing And with that old 7-string guitar That troubled me so much at nights Living such life without joy and torture, I recollect the years that passed by And your silver hands in that three-horse carriage which went away for good...
once upon a time there was a tavern there we used to raise a glass or two or three or four!! there we used to wind away the hours thinking of the things we used to do! Those were the days my friends we thought they'd never end we'd sing and dance forever and a day we'd live the life that we chose we'd fight and never loose, we are the wolves! oh yes we are the wolves!!!!! Wolverhampton wanderers football club
I love the 60's fancy camera work. I really wish they would bring some of that back (I am not joking). New shows are boring with slow zoom and slow pan shots. I mean if someone is pretty why not zoom right in to their face like that! She reminds of me France Gall in both appearance and singing. Anyone else see the resemblance? Maybe all girls in 1968 looked the same though.
Those were the days my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we'd choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way La la la la la la la la la Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days Then the busy years went rushing by us We lost our starry notions on the way If by chance I'd see you in the tavern We'd smile at one another and we'd say...
I remember listening to this when i was about 10. My mom used to love this song. I feel like a have a connection to this song. Talk about great memories from my childhood!!
sad song. my memory in our old day
foreverstone7 1 month ago
Má oê! Lombardi é a sua vez !
Rsom05 1 month ago
it reminds me of klezmer music.
wattever333 1 month ago
If my memory serves me, she was a Paul McCartney protege
ranchjp 2 months ago
mantab gan
asoygeboy19 2 months ago
Pedro de Lara-ra-ra
cowbonilha51 3 months ago 2
My liver gone away with this song!
silverspurs84 3 months ago
yes. me2 nandos!!!!
leosagdast 3 months ago
Nandos brought me here.....
imeln16 3 months ago 20
thank you for posting this stunning piece of history.
misshavisham3112 3 months ago
Incrível!
odilonzinho7 3 months ago
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JSimpsonBart 3 months ago
sexy hexi
3173150333 3 months ago
Thank you richpat for contacting me. I see you have a good taste in vocalists of the "pop" music genre.I am glad to hear she is alive and doing well. Her voice is one of those musical instruments that when experienced you never forget it. Plus the way she sings a particular song like "Lord of the Reedy River" demonstrates her mastery of the craft. I am glad to contact people who truly appreciate good vocalists and music. Keep listening!
MrMultijosefus 4 months ago
I remember listening to this song in the radio back in 1969. I was but a child yet I recognized a master vocalist when I heard her. There is something very British about this vocalist it is as if she is the personification of British womanhood. Both culturally and phonetically she sounds like the standard by which all British vocalists should be judged. No wonder Paul Mac Cartney of the Beatles was captivated by her voice.
MrMultijosefus 4 months ago
@MrMultijosefus you should hear her now, even better, she has been writing and releasing on her own label mary Hopkin Music... go to maryhopkinDOTcom
richpat 4 months ago
this is one of my favorite songs because it's so meaningful. Those WERE the days, you can't relive them so enjoy each moment, because before you'd notice, you'd realize you miss the days and wish you can go back.
madbadandsad 4 months ago
Remember 68 like it was yesterday!
Evelyn4340 4 months ago
I hate talking about dislikers or insult them, but srsly? How can 29 ppl dislike this? How can one dislike this? >.<
MihneaP93 5 months ago 2
i'm inlove with mary hopkins ^_^
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robertoamor2011 6 months ago
Each time I heard this song,I cried
Those were the days, never come back
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In '68 when song became popular oh could I identify with! Summer,seashore,sing a long pubs,mates,girlfriends and that most special love. What a time....... Then return to Vietnam, combat, firefights, death, loneliness and finally a "Dear John". Ah to be able to go back and change the ending. Not to be......The pubs,most of the mates and the girl...long gone. But oh those memories! At least I'll always have them
laruesansjoie 7 months ago
her voice is angelic :))))))))
salma15161 7 months ago
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erdemsea 8 months ago
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yarragımı ye fener
TheTheocoles 8 months ago
huddersfield town
renjua 8 months ago
i hope this sort of music never dies its our heritage
sarahbisme1 8 months ago in playlist old classics
beautiful and very touching :)
evavanjava 8 months ago
มี Mary Hopkin คนเดียวนี่ละมั้งที่ร้องเพลงเล่นลูกคอได้ Likeๆๆๆ
2122242367 8 months ago
ıs this a russian song?
AshJoLen 8 months ago
@AshJoLen The melody is indeed Russian but ‘Those were the days’ is not a translation from the Russian song Dorogoy Dlinnoyu which means along a long road. An American Gene Raskin, wrote the lyrics for the song ‘Those were the days’ using the music from Fomins Dorogoy Dlinnoyu. The song in Russian Дорогой длинною, was written by Boris Fomin in the early 1900's with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii. Raskins lyrics are not a literal translation from Podrevskiis
Pat maryhopkindotnet
richpat 8 months ago 16
@richpat The nelody is so beautiful. That s bad that we don't know russian style music.
WALTKRIEG 1 month ago
yaramı ye fener yaramı ye fener la la la
CeMJeTSoN 8 months ago
those days i was in DC and after college i use to go to a cafeeria with a friend and put this song in those machines with records after some years i came back to my home land Mexico and i still can remember thank you
Lorii555 8 months ago
This song is great but does anybody know what rapper sampled it? I heard it years ago and it's bugging the hell out of me right now.
devdanger 8 months ago
yarrağımı ye fener!
aler1903 8 months ago
i love you mary
TomTidy1 8 months ago
Beauty of old song as this - is that one can identify with it.
Yes, youth rushes by quickly ....and we in our rush for more don't treasure it then.
mayarawatbisht 8 months ago
Song written by Paul McCartney!
reverendswindle 8 months ago
@reverendswindle
No way, this is a Russian original: "Dorogoj dlinnoju"
burgburg60 8 months ago
I can remember this song from my days in the early 70's in this underground bar in Wash DC. The later it got the drunker we got and the more they played this song. Little did I reallize this was the theme song of my youth.
Screamingdk 8 months ago in playlist theme songs 3
Damn.. I would like to have slid in and out of that in those days..
blueticecho 9 months ago
I love this song :)
SOXURROXOFF 9 months ago
"Dorogoy dlinnoyu" (Дорогой длинною) Is not a poem the music was written by Boris Fomin in the early 1900's with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii. The first known recording was by Alexander Vertinski,
An American Gene Raskin wrote the lyrics for the song "Those were the days" he used the melody only from the song "Dorogoy dlinnoyu"
richpat 9 months ago
Isn't this a or is based on a Russian poem?
jonathan1994ish1 9 months ago 2
you guys should check the cover Turisas did on this song XD
TenaciousDOzzy 9 months ago
Eleanor Rigby
hullabamuse 9 months ago
The best song ever according to the most visiters are Led Zeppelin´s "Stairway To Heaven". This russian song can´t compair to that, but when the young Welsh talent Mary Hopkin sings this song in a way that no one else can (not even Dolly Parton) the puzzle are forfilled and make this special song definitely on the top 100 list of the best and beatyfulest songs ever. It is not difficult to understand why the Beatles Paul McCartney produced this song. 1968.
thelejonet 10 months ago
This song brings back many memories, but I would kill for a thumpin' house remix. Peace.
MuzikJunkyAES 10 months ago
Great song.. 11th Grade at Milby Sr High Houston TX
zoggy1950 10 months ago
This woman has no stage presence. It's no wonder she was a one hit wonder.
Beaumomtamoros 11 months ago
@Beaumomtamoros Wow I haven't heard of too many people who got the opportunity to see mary Hopkin singing live on stage, I am so, so impressed. Please tell me more. Where and when did you see her? did you manage to record the show? Did you get any pictures of her? would love to hear more from you.
richpat 10 months ago
@Beaumomtamoros Ah my mistake, I just checked your profile, you are only 35 and were not born when mary started out in 1968 at the age of 18. Also she charted many times between 68 and 72, when she gave up 'show biz'
richpat 10 months ago
The reason you haven't heard of too many people having the opportunity to have seen this woman is because she is a one hit wonder with no stage presence. You just proved my point richpat.
Beaumomtamoros 10 months ago
@Beaumomtamoros This is the problem trying to have coherent conversations when the other has no knowledge of the artiste in question. You are from the USA, Mary is British. She only promoted her first 2 songs those were the days and Goodbye in the US which bte got into YOUR top tewnty in 69, which proves she was not a 1 hit wonder. She had 5 top twenty hits here in the UK before she choose to leave show business.
richpat 10 months ago
@richpat No,Miss hokin is welsh
Freyja1133 10 months ago
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@richpat No,Miss Hopkin is Welsh,not British
Freyja1133 10 months ago
@richpat Actually MAry hopkin is a welsh lass..not brtitish
Freyja1133 9 months ago
@Freyja1133 She and I may be Welsh, but WALES is in Britain, Wales is part of the United Kindoms of Great Britain, so that makes us all British...
richpat 9 months ago
@richpat OOp, that should read United Kingdom..
richpat 9 months ago
@richpat I agree with you,pat.... that would make you both welsh& british
Freyja1133 9 months ago
wtf?! 28 didnt know what classic is??? Sad....
VanQuishEx 11 months ago
I love her!!!
ramosmanos 11 months ago
Boy, the Sixties were stupid time!
theBaron0530 11 months ago
@theBaron0530 what year were you born in Baron?
Freyja1133 10 months ago
@Freyja1133 - 1964. And when you consider that the trends that emerged in the Sixties, that we consider as typical of the Sixties, lasted well into the chronological Seventies, I got to see it all unfold. I was much happier when the Eighties started.
theBaron0530 9 months ago
@Freyja1133 - 1964. When were you born, and what difference does it make? When you consider that the trends that emerged in the Sixties, that we consider as typical of the Sixties, lasted well into the chronological Seventies, I got to see it all unfold. I was much happier when the Eighties started.
theBaron0530 9 months ago
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ByeByeFreebird 11 months ago
this song makes me think of my GF beautiful song!
purplerocks1 11 months ago
Those baby boomers... the stuff they came out with. Gotta love them. :)
maryruthanne 11 months ago 5
Mary Hopkin of my youth!
himiko240 1 year ago
On Christmas 1975, the dictator of Equitorial Guinea had 150 of his political rivals shot to death in a stadium while a brass band played this song.
You've never heard of the country, but you've bought oil from it.
drew1385 1 year ago
@drew1385 - Lighten up, Francis!
theBaron0530 11 months ago
This tune was one of the turn on songs to grow out of "old school music" that I was introduced to and ~ grew out with,, but kept in the background...~ mary hopkins, pablov's dog, savoy brown, jimi hendrix, traffic, hairy bellafante... _____ ______ (can't remember one of the most important...).. yes!!!!!!!!!! and old school music seemed to go together,, just when I started hearing Mary Hopkins,, it all went togethert...
cadin2020 1 year ago
Hadn't though of this song in quite a while, but hearing it takes me back to my childhood. (Not in a tavern, though of course. Mom would have killed me.) Sometimes those old tavern songs are truly the best.
1964nickel 1 year ago
I heard this song almost everyday going to mccluer on KSHE.
MegaKegHead 1 year ago
yarrağımı ye fener :D
Mikerinos24 1 year ago
see thats a good song :D
mussemissen1 1 year ago
@yourdickis2limp I am sorry) I didn't think about it. I said in russian that this song is great, and that the english version is very romentic+)
Ness88tren 1 year ago 3
@Ness88tren omg do not apologise to someone so rude they are the ones that need to learn YT is not just for english speakers and there are such things as translate buttons
adamlambertisanangel 1 year ago
svaki komentar je suvisan jednom recju fenomenalno....
metalb78 1 year ago
i'm 14 my piano teacher was like 5 in the 60's he said. i bought a book for piano and this was inside it and he was like omg never seen any1 like that i plaed it listened to and was like awesome. THOSE MUST OF BEEN THE DAYS! we changed so much but this is always gr8 i love it so much gonna put a piano cover of this for myy piano teacher. he rocks
Haamids 1 year ago
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sa5hil 1 year ago
I've always loved this song and her voice!
JOSECHETATRIBUTE 1 year ago 7
Дорогой длинною, да ночкой лунною+)
Я люблю Россию)
Ness88tren 1 year ago
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@Ness88tren why dont you learn to write in English you Russian ballsack CockTsar Mary Hopkins is singing the song in English why dont you comment in English or go listen to Tsachovskys versions of this?
yourdickis2limp 1 year ago
Nek grmi Srbija u nasim srcima !!!
zlajasa 1 year ago
26 are justin bieber fans
NABAWY27 1 year ago
היו ימים חבר...הייתי בת 13 כששמעתי פעם
ראשונה שיר יפייפה זה וביצוע מדהים של מרי הופקין
אכן זה שיר שתמיד יזכיר ימים יפים
ונעורי נצח
דליה-ניו יורק
dalia221 1 year ago
Love it so much! Makes me feel so at ease.
ShawnJD10 1 year ago
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Didn't she do a sequel called "Those were the gays"? Oh, no--that was Elton John.
tommerrigan1956 1 year ago
Brings me back nice memories. My dad liked this song, and The Beatles!! r.i.p dad
stafylides 1 year ago
SPINE CHILLS!!
Akiva19 1 year ago
gives chills :|!
Akiva19 1 year ago
video is BAD
song is AWESOME!!
bbcharleslau 1 year ago
yaramı ye fener :))
nilepila 1 year ago
Wonderful song and it's great to sing at parties where the chorus gets louder and longer each time. Few people manage the high vocal at the extro but it's just so much fun.
Thanks for the posting ibicus!
MilSepic60 1 year ago
she is quite the vision!
ERROLCUSTERFLYNN4EVR 1 year ago
Здорово!
El5en6 1 year ago
gets me emotional..
TomZajic 1 year ago
Mary Hopkin was from Pontardawe, a small industrial town in my valley in South Wales. She's a fluent Welsh speaker and a Welsh sepperatist.
This song is absolutely brilliant! Love it! Makes me so proud to be Welsh.
Cymru am Byth!
ronaldinhollew 1 year ago
@ronaldinhollew "Welsh separatist"?
richpat 1 year ago
My all-time favorite song. Ever.
DougA22 1 year ago
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This song belongs to Dalida originally (le temps des fleurs) sung in 1967, this version recorded in 1968 as all musical encyclopedias mention. Dalida sings it much much more better in a way full of emotions
Gonzales1962 1 year ago
I've lived in Britain for a while, travelled around.
This is the song I like most. I miss Great Britain very very much.
CathaySaber 1 year ago
my teacher mr albert showed us this song ^^
halloween265 1 year ago
I don't get the Russia thing, but as a teenager, this was our song in America.......
(explain the Russia thing)
werentthosethedays 1 year ago
@werentthosethedays Well: in the 1910s the russian composer Boris Fomin and the poet Konstantin Podrevskij wrote a song "Dorogoj dlinnoyu", first performed by Alexandr Vertinskiy. (his record is also posted on Youtube once). Later in the 1960s Gene Raskin heard this song in Russia. He didn't knew the composer, so he through, it was a folksong. in 1962 he wrote new english lyrics, put them on the russian melody and made a new arrangement.
I hope, it was understandable.
04279 1 year ago
Come you Boys in red!!!!!!!!!!!#
rot und weiß ein leben lang
TheGak1902 1 year ago 3
@TheGak1902 Ich sing gleich mit: "Come on you Boys in red!"
rote Grüße!
heimleita 1 year ago 3
Good times.
fazendoporraalguma 1 year ago
i never forgert those days in Singapore
Huyennguyenthanh2603 1 year ago
loved this song 40 years ago and still do
ChrisDoylefly 1 year ago
I loved this song when I was 10 years old - and still do 40 years later
ChrisDoylefly 1 year ago
I loved this song when I was 10 years old - and still do 40 years later
ChrisDoylefly 1 year ago
good but russian original is better
HaparandaSweden 1 year ago
Mary is still young singing this song. It's a bit like Charlotte Church singing "Young at Heart." Still, she's wonderful. Beautiful feeling.
goback3spaces 1 year ago
@goback3spaces
Looking back with fondness or longing, to a place in your past is ageless, one does not need to be old or have had pain!
There is a Welsh word "Hiraeth" which translated into Englsih can mean "a longing" "a yearning" even "home-sickness"
For me Mary Hopkin sang "THose were the days" with hiraeth 18 or 118 age doesnt come into it.
richpat 1 year ago 3
@richpat Thanks. I dig. Good comment.
goback3spaces 1 year ago
@richpat
that is so true richpat.....
crissy1964 1 year ago
Waaaoooo...Predivno..
amkolog 1 year ago
come on you boys in red, come on you boys, come on you boys in red
Grazer AK 1902
Proud to be RED
FranzFerdinand232 1 year ago 15
@FranzFerdinand232 Roso
TheGak1902 1 year ago
@FranzFerdinand232 THAT´S THE NEW ANTHEM OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, soon to be DISunited States of America.
sinsarcasmo 1 year ago
@FranzFerdinand232 communist?
nickshel 10 months ago
@FranzFerdinand232
(flag:gb) red is only any good when its a red cross on a white background (finger)
madmanmardy 8 months ago
Great - this was one my favourite song when I was a teenie. I have it on a tape, but this is the first video i saw of - actally some months/years ago. But still: Thank you!
Milowfan1234 1 year ago
memories of when we where young, she sang back then what we think now.
she was indeed a fairytale princess in our eyes
would we have done things differently if we knew then what we know now?
yes, kick the banksters out and never fight any war again.
Sumrivs 1 year ago
So brings back memories of my youth ,superb song and oh yes what a pure voice. Love all her songs..Also neva dates as I c from comments, and evokes gd memories from you all.!!!!!!!"!
julestheangel 1 year ago 2
we won the F.A CUP, now where going up... oh where the town oh yes we are the TOWN!
geoffhudd 1 year ago
Lovely :) !
iw32 1 year ago
Beautiful woman then and now, beautiful song, beautiful memories. Thank you Mary!!
kpjlaw 1 year ago
Paul McCartney wrote this song.
tcd61 1 year ago
Paul McCartney did not write this song - although he was the producer of Mary Hopkin's version of this song. Paul had Mary record this song in 4 languages
albacized 1 year ago
@tcd61 How could Paul write this song, when the melody was already written 20 years before he was born? ;-)
Boris Fomin wrote the melody, Gene Raskin wrote the lyrics, both worked independently.
04279 1 year ago
I guess, even through it's a very nice song, we can all this song plagiarism. In fact the author of the english lyrics Gene Raskin is mostly always credited as the writer of this song. The real composer, Boris Fomin, wasn't credited at all.
04279 1 year ago 2
@04279 relax just because there is an english version doesnt mean its plagiarized. im sure everyone here knows it started in the soviet union.
derbedo 1 year ago
@derbedo I know. But firstly, the english lyrics are not a translation of the russian lyrics. And secondly, Boris Fomin, the composer of the melody, is not credited on the albums. Only Gene Raskin is credited. I think, they should be credited both, Fomin AND Raskin (I heard, Bad Boys Blue did it, when they covered this song).
And by the way: Mostly the people think, Mary sang the original and the don't know the Limeliters or the original song from Russia (Dorogoj dlinnoju)
04279 1 year ago 2
I guess, it's one of the most beautiful cover versions of this song.
Mary Hopkin has a wonderful voice. She doesn't need a big show, she just has to stand there and to sing.
04279 1 year ago 33
Ohh I heard this song like five years ago and I recently found what its name was! SOO BEAUTIFUL :)
dolbfadofhadpf 1 year ago
Last verse, this is a literal translation of the original lyrics.
(Troika is a three horse carriage, and 7 string guitars were normal at the time the song was written. "Torture" is meant to be the 'sweet torture' of love. "Falcons" refers to young people.
Refrain
Days are passing by, multiplying my sorrows,
It's so hard for me to forget the past
And one day the day will come, my dear,
When you are going to bury me.
almostavgjoe 1 year ago
almostavgjoe 1 year ago
@almostavgjoe You copied that word for word from my website maryhopkindotnet
richpat 1 year ago
I love this song. Is it in i-Tunes?
MegaCoolness100 1 year ago
once upon a time there was a tavern there we used to raise a glass or two or three or four!! there we used to wind away the hours thinking of the things we used to do! Those were the days my friends we thought they'd never end we'd sing and dance forever and a day we'd live the life that we chose we'd fight and never loose, we are the wolves! oh yes we are the wolves!!!!! Wolverhampton wanderers football club
MRWanderer95 1 year ago
A 1970 hit that takes me down memory lane. Thank you for the upload.
felixbautista 1 year ago
@felixbautista 1968
richpat 1 year ago
@felixbautista Sorry, not true, I emigrated from England in the late sixties and this was one of my favourites before departing for Australia.
aramat111 1 year ago
charming . . .
maf2oo3 1 year ago
I love the 60's fancy camera work. I really wish they would bring some of that back (I am not joking). New shows are boring with slow zoom and slow pan shots. I mean if someone is pretty why not zoom right in to their face like that! She reminds of me France Gall in both appearance and singing. Anyone else see the resemblance? Maybe all girls in 1968 looked the same though.
funny0000000 1 year ago
how old is thisss??
awsomechic247 1 year ago
@awsomechic247 THis is from 1968
richpat 1 year ago
the first time i saw this when it zoomed on her face i literally screamded and fell backwards out of my chair.
bluescwawb 1 year ago
I don't know why but this is one of my most sentimental songs.
Blackvegie123 1 year ago
Hi, this is a good old song recalling lots of good memories.
georgehhtsang 1 year ago
This song is no.20 in the world-all-time-charts
LittleSweety 1 year ago
Yeah, Jimmy...love you still.
laff2010 1 year ago
Once upon a time there was a tavern
Where we used to raise a glass or two
Remember how we laughed away the hours
Think of all the great things we would do
missyyy1103 1 year ago
missyyy1103 1 year ago
@missyyy1103 Absolutely wonderfully nostalgic song aint it?
brianclough 1 year ago
@brianclough yeah sure is...wish we could have those days back, eh?
laff2010 1 year ago
Just tonight I stood before the tavern
Nothing seemed the way it used to be
In the glass I saw a strange reflection
Was that lonely woman really me?
Through the door there came familiar laughter
I saw your face and heard you call my name
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same..
missyyy1103 1 year ago
Beautiful english girl...
ivis65 1 year ago
@ivis65 She is a beautiful Welsh girl....
richpat 1 year ago
@ivis65 Welsh, actually. Mary would be very offended if you called her English.
angel4everable 1 year ago
This song is fire i effs with it.
SamSea18 1 year ago
all my school memories are rushing into my head :'(
miss these days <3
SoundOfTheMiddleEast 1 year ago
John Stewart brought me here!
WackyJaclyn 1 year ago 2
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lebeenje 1 year ago
@WackyJaclyn Ahaha me too! By the way, it's "Jon"
lebeenje 1 year ago
I remember listening to this when i was about 10. My mom used to love this song. I feel like a have a connection to this song. Talk about great memories from my childhood!!
quammyful 1 year ago