Mary Hopkin sings Allentown Jail

"You Look Familiar"
A new CD from Mary Hopkin and Morgan Visconti release date 25/10/2010
http://www.maryhopkin.com


In 1970 Mary Hopkin had her own TV series called "In the land of ..."
Each programme was themed and it ran for 6 weeks.

These were the programme titles
"in the land of Films"
"in the land of Legend"
"in the land of Books"
"in the land of Theatre"
"in the land of Nursery Rhymes"
"in the land of Pantomime"

In this clip she sings the lovely "Allentown Jail" taken from
"The land of films"

"Recollections" a NEW CD now available via Mary Hopkin Music http://www.maryhopkin.co.uk


More about Mary
Born in Wales Mary began her musical career as a folk singer with a local group called the Selby Set and Mary. She released an EP of Welsh language songs for a local label called Cambrian before signing to the Beatles Apple Label, model Twiggy saw her winning a TV talent show and recommended her to Paul McCartney. She was one of the first artists to record on the Beatles record label Her debut single" Those Were the Days" got to number 1 in the UK and number 2 in the US. Selling over 8 million copies.

A little something more about Mary!
In September 2005 she released an album on her own label, "Mary Hopkin Music", called "Live at the Royal Festival Hal!" It was followed in December 2006 by a brand-new Christmas recording, "Snowed Under", released as an mp3 download via Disaudio.com
To celebrate her birthday in 2007, she released an album called "Valentine", on her new label http://www.maryhopkin.com It includes 12 previously unheard tracks dating from 1972 to 1980, three of which were written by Mary

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[forsburgers]

Yes Smitho1949, Mary has a sweet enough voice but the power and range of Judith Durham with The Seekers makes this pale by comparison

[richpat]

@forsburgers yes Judiths vocal is beautiful I agree, BUT two very different renditions of the song don't you think?

[Kuramochi0214]

Good afternoon pat,

This cellphonem is made in china but brandname is Sony Ericsson. Softwares are developed for Scandinavian countries, UK, and USA. Just tO DAY additional funktions for Japanese language plused then available from this June. Do you use the same one?

Cookies are not baked and I can re-rate from this; D

All the best.

Tommy

[richpat]

@Kuramochi0214 Hello. I don't use my cellphone very much as I have difficulty seeing the small screen.

[ZAGGLETON]

The Postcard CD includes Spanish and Italian versions of 'Those Were the Days' and says there were also French and German versions: do you have to have access to those? It would be nice to hear them!

[richpat]

I have sent you links for the 2 songs you mentioned!

[PertlyDaft]

The song you can hear at the beginning was thar the introduction song to all six shows?

[maningreen7]

Thankyou Pat.Which "Mary in the land of.."was this taken from ?

[Smitho1949]

As much as I like Mary Hopkins voice my favorite group The Seekers dose a much better version then this.

[Dilhan777]

This is lovely, as usual from Mary! Thank you for posting.

[richpat]

thanks for your lovely comment,

She has such a wonderful voice that I like to share her music...

Mary has a new CD out in May? so even more new music to look forward too

Bye

Pat

[gardenmike]

Richpat

You have made Youtube much more worthwhile by the great collection of Mary's music, which otherwise could have remained totally unknown to the world. Many thanks.