- Those Were the Days-Written By: Борис Фомин (Boris Fomin) · Gene Raskin-LyricsOnce upon a time there was a tavern-Where we used to raise a glass or two-Remember how we laughed away the hours-Dreamed of all the great things we would do?-Those were the days, my friend-We thought they'd never end-We'd sing and dance forever and a ...-https://genius.com/mary-hopkin-those-were-the-days-lyrics
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See all on Wikipedia"Those Were the Days" is a song composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) but credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to Fomin's Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" , with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism. It also deals with … See more
Georgian singer Tamara Tsereteli (1900–1968) and Russian singer Alexander Vertinsky made what were probably the earliest recordings of the song, in 1925 and 1926 respectively.
The song appears … See moreIn the early 1960s, Raskin, with his wife Francesca, played folk music around Greenwich Village in New York, including White Horse Tavern. … See more
1925Georgian singer Tamara Tsereteli made one of the earliest recordings of the song.1926Russian singer Alexander Vertinsky made one of the earliest recordings of the song.1953The song appears in the British/French movie Innocents in Paris.1962The Limeliters released a recording of the song on their LP Folk Matinee.1968Welsh singer, Mary Hopkin, covered "Those Were the Days" as her debut single. Produced by Paul McCartney of the Beatles and arranged by Richard Hewson, the cover became a number one hit in the UK and Canada, and also reached number two in the US on the Billboard Hot 100, behind "Hey Jude" by the Beatles. It was number one in the first edition of the French National Hit Parade launched by the Centre d'Information et de Documentation du Disque. The song was featured on the US version of the debut album Post Card.1970On Christmas 1969, the President of Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macías Nguema, had 150 alleged coup plotters executed in the national stadium while the amplifier system played the Mary Hopkin recording of "Those Were the Days".2011Hopkin's version of the song was used by Nando's South Africa in a satirical advertisement featuring Robert Mugabe as the "Last Dictator Standing".• 1968: The French version of the song, "Le temps des fleurs", was popularized by the international recording star Dalida following Hopkin's … See more
Wikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license WebThose Were the Days Lyrics: Once upon a time there was a tavern / Where we used to raise a glass or two / Remember how we laughed away the hours / Dreamed of all the great things we would...
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