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Those Were the Days

~ Mary Hopkin
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (3 April 1995)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Apple
  • ASIN: B00000I251
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 58,894 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Those Were The Days
2. Goodbye
3. Temma Harbour
4. Think About Your Children
5. Knock Knock Who's There
6. Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be)
7. Lontano Degli Occhi
8. Sparrow
9. Heritage
10. Fields Of St Etienne
11. Jefferson
12. Let My Name Be Sorrow
13. Kew Gardens
14. When I Am Old One Day
15. Silver Birch And Weeping Willow
16. Streets Of London
17. Water Paper And Clay

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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Mary's voice is a treat for the ears and the soul., 9 Jan 2000
I recently bought this CD as a replacement for my very worn out LP that I bought in 1972. It took me awhile to find the CD so when it finally arrived I was ecstatic. Mary's voice and her style of singing captured my heart all those years ago. I never tire of her. As for the CD, six songs have been added to the original eleven heard on the LP. If I have only one complaint it is that the order of the original songs have been jumbled up. I don't see why this was done. Obviously, it would not upset a new listener's ear. It is only a niggle after all. All her songs are sung with that crystal clear voice of hers. All are evocative in their own way, bittersweet and haunting. She has been catagorised as being "twee" but I beg to differ. Of the orginal eleven songs on the CD, 'The Fields of St.Etienne' is a tale of a lover lamenting her lover going to war. I would hardly class that as being twee. There is something very sad about 'Knock knock Who's There'. It has a joyful tempo but it's about loneliness. Mary is very good at expressing the human condition through her lovely voice. Maybe the angelic quality of her voice takes away some of the seriousness of the subject matter but only people listening to her superficially would think that. I take her work and her artistic ability very seriously. I did not know what to expect of the newer songs. I certainly was plesantly surprised to find them just as enjoyable as the older ones. I think she sings 'Streets of London' with more conviction that Ralph McTell. There is one little treasure called 'When I am Old One Day'. It has never been released until now. It is bittersweet without being morbid and in keeping with Mary's style. I love it. Songs like 'Silver birch and weeping willow' and 'Water,paper & clay' appeal to the pagan inside of me, however, as always, Mary is at her best singing about what makes us human - the frailities of love, life and death. I don't hear much about her these days. I have the greatest respect for her as a musician and artist and hope that more recent albums and songs will appear by her in the future.
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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars BREEZY FOLKY POP, 18 May 2003
By Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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Mary Hopkin was one of those 1960s UK pop singers influenced by folk music, like the early Marianne Faithfull. She made breezy melodic pop music with flair and had huge hits with Those Were The Days, Temma Harbour and Knock Knock Who’s There. There is a special wistful quality in her voice that makes these songs still resonate in my mind after all these years. The album also includes pop standards like Que Sera Sera and the folk classic Streets Of London which she interprets gracefully. If you like melodic pop from the 60s and early 70s, you’ll love this album. I also recommend it to fans of Marianne Faithfull’s early work and of Francoise Hardy.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars SIMPLY THE BEST, 3 Mar 2006
By Linda Sendall (Bishops Stortford, Herts United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This CD is absolutely wonderful it bought back memories of school days and school trips, where only one person took any 45 records and they were ALL Mary Hopkin records, so we all knew the words off by heart. The clarity and passion of this CD is second to none.
Well done Mary and Thank you..
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