Thank You for reminding me of this glorious singer I so enjoyed listening to back when. It saddens me we no longer hear this beautiful music. I’m not far off from her current age & reminds me how quickly time has passed & of my own Immortality.
then... play it for them... I do. Myself, I'm 67 next month and I still sing Nilsson. I'm not good at it... but I can still hit all but the highest notes...
When singers could actually sing and you could understand what they were saying. I’m 71…born in 1951…I still listen to this music and Engelbert Humperdinck, my all time fave.
And your brain seems to be on auto-pilot, with no original thought ever coming out of it, just threadbare utterances parroting other mindless geezers with arrested development and severely limited taste. The song was written by Pete Seeger and popularized across the world in 1965 by the folk rock group The Byrds. If you're unable to grasp the beauty of both versions or of various successful versions of other songs, you shouldn't be disgracing yourself in public by dmbfck comments like yours. ruclips.net/video/W4ga_M5Zdn4/видео.html&ab_channel=embryonicsoul
Things may have been screwed up, but there was also a spirit of optimism, a feeling that things were going to get better, that the world could become a better place for all. I wonder what happened, that feeling is sorely and sadly lacking now.
There are a few popular artists right now who can play their own instruments but for some reason the industry prefers to downplay that aspect and instead focus on their images. It's like they feel that instruments would be too distracting to modern youth. Sometimes it feels like we've reverted back to the pre-Beatles era of pop music.
@@undeadnightorc And sadly, instead of real talent, some nowadays think they have to dress up like tramps on stage to get the attention. Sure, they might have a bit of talent enough to get a recording...then they go off the beam. Yep, bring real talent back. Mary Hopking is still living, and about 73 years old. But retired last I heard. We've lost Judith Durham, and Olivia Newton-John this year. Hopefully not too many more real singersof their class of natural talent, leave us too soon. We've only just lost Gordon LIghtfoot of the male version folkies this week. Another one of my faves.
Human beings are capable of creating such amazing beauty with just their voice and an instrument; this is a supreme moment from a beautiful, humble, sweet, unpretentious, talented woman.
Some still do, Scottie: independent artists who are too good for the record industry moguls to grant them a contract. (They seem to prefer mediocrity, these days: terribly, terribly sad!)
Everything is fine: video, singer, guitar, presentator. All of it reflects education, good manners, respect, great music and a beautifil, peaceful atmosphere !
This popped up under some Seekers and Judith Durham songs on RUclips. I'd long forgotten it but saw it the first time around. I'm getting old. Just wrapped up some old handtools I must have bought about that time - a present for my son-in-law who has taken up fine detailed woodwork
My sister, Sandra, actually went to the same audition to Opportunity Knocks as Mary in 1968 (they did music together for 7 years in Grammar School). Hughie Green and the producers chose Mary to appear on the show over my sister - and the rest is history (-: Beautiful song, beautifully sung by Mary (-: This is the Mary I knew (-:
@@jiveturkey9993 could have had a joint decision and have two winners how times have changed especially in the music industry you will never get these back again.
Just 2 words describes this Gorgeous Mary Hopkins songs an they r: "ABSOLUTELEY BEAUTIFULL." Just wat we need in these difficult times. Bravooooo Mary.
I was 15 when this was shown and remember Mary Hopkin well. She was wonderful. Thanks for posting this and taking all these years away for a short time. This really brought me back to these wonderful times.
I was 9 years old. My parents shielded me, almost totally, from popular 60s music. Later, I grew up on Big Band "Swing" from the 30s and 40s. Only when about 18 did I discover ABBA, The Beatles, and others. What a beautiful musical revelation for me that even now keeps happily, magically unfolding and gloriously mesmerizing me.
The only star I ever fancied.I fell in love with her beautiful Welsh voice.My son in law showed me how to view her via you tube.It brought back memories I thought long since dead.Beautiful woman, fantastic singer.I think I was always in love with her. Danny,Ireland.
The single with the songs Turn, turn, turn and Those were the days (the latter with lyrics in Spanish) was the first we bought in my house. I was 6 years old. Adorable woman.
I had never knew Mary could play Guitar yet alone fingerstyle . Wow the talent in those days without any gadgets. No wonder McCartney had a yearn for her in the day. This was beautiful
Rare that you find a video on RUclips that has been viewed over 10,000 times and not a single dislike. But - understandable. As beautiful as pure driven snow.
I have played the Ramirez GH guitar for many years in my life. It was undoubtedly a beautiful sounding guitar & sounding all the more beautiful with Mary's voice.❤❤❤
In the bigger picture I am so pleased that a vocalist providing such wonderful music had her sound captured and it can be listened to ,today so clearly.
So how was it recorded do with think? All valve amplification and 35mm film? It's considerably better than some recordings from the eighties and nineties.
@@londonwestman1 AKG C28 microphone (as seen used by the beatles in the let it be movie). Probably a transistor console by then. A Neve, calrec or similar. A EMT plate. Probably a Studer tape recorder or just directly to video. Nothing special, really.
Such a pure, lovely voice. Remember this although I was only about 7 at the time. Got my mum to buy her single Those Were The Days and probably wore it out!
Sat next table to her in The Capri, a very small Soho restaurant, while Apple PR guy discussed her new contract. Just a few weeks later went back to same restaurant where her No1 was celebrated (Those were the days). Apple obviously realised her potential and signed a beautiful singer and musician.
I followed Mary Hopkins on opportunity knocks in the sixties to watch her winning each week, I remember on one occasion she sang house of the rising sun so awesomely they turned the lights down as a hushed audience listened enthralled to her beautiful exceptional voice ,it was an experience I have never forgotten , truly one of the all time greats,
One of my faves from my childhood, when I was hearing her music and that of the Beatles, humming her songs while on a swing growing up on an air force base in Canada. Those Were the Days ... awesome tune.
I remember watching this in Grade school , Everyone really loved her sweet voice , We had to learn this song in choir practice , Great Melody ♥️🎸🎼🎶🎵🎧🎤♥️‼️
Even in a musical world of rock. pop. and Tamla Motown she shone like a star. Just listening to her makes me feel for a moment, a time that is as distant now as any star in the night sky. She was as special as they come and I knew it even then.
George Harrison was quite generous with handing out his guitars. He also gave Pete Ham of Badfinger his Gibson SG standard, which was used on a couple Beatles tracks and featured in Paperback Writer and Hey Bulldog music videos. As well as giving Badfinger’s drummer Mike Gibbins an acoustic George used at The Concert for Bangladesh because one of the strings was coming apart
She was a huge star when I was a kid and rightly so! I used to pass her house on the school bus as she only lived a few miles from me. And as from other comments, lovely to see true talent in all it's glory and no gimmicks! "Da iawn it ti Cariad"!
A time of peace, I swear its not too late......I wish. Mary had such a beautiful voice, now all these decades later her daughter sings her songs in tribute.
Yes a wonderful voice. I was nine at the time but I didn't really appreciate the purity of her voice until I was an adult. A lovely , uncomplicated person. Another great entertainer who makes me proud to be Welsh. Also, I remember that Hughie Green was never nasty to the performers and gave constructive criticisms to some less talented performers, rather than the sometimes cruel remarks of today's panels.
In some ways the Corona virus has simplified many lives to as it used to be. Lovely sound quality and I like black and white. Mary was excellent and MrGreen too. Fabulous productions in those days. Those certainly were the days my friend!.
I had the blessed joy to see Pete Seeger perform his masterpiece live. He introduced Turn, Turn, Turn by explaining his record producers requested he quit writing so many protest songs. Turn, Turn, Turn was his response to his producers demand. Glorious.
2017 now i'm 65 ,,, so many songs from the 60's and 70's bring on such memories ,,, Now i know the saying "bitter sweet",,, bitter sweet ...for lost friends and lovers ,,, dreams dashed and dreams rewarded ,,, 100 songs make up my, "pull the plug" list ,,, "the days" is on my list ,,, made me sad even at 17 , first time i heard it ,,,
This was written by Pete Seeger, an influential folk singer and activist. He recorded a demo of the song around 1961 & included a live version on his 1962 LP The Bitter & The Sweet with just voice & guitar. The lyrics were taken from a passage from the book of Ecclesiastes (3:1-8) in The Bible. They were rearranged and paired with Seeger's music to make the song. Seeger explained: "I pulled out this slip of paper in my pocket & improvised a melody to it in 15 minutes. Within two months Pete Seeger's music publisher had sold it to the Limelighters who released an upbeat, banjo-based version in 1962 on their album "Folk Matinee". Before he recorded this song with The Byrds, Jim McGuinn (who later went by "Roger") played acoustic 12-string guitar on Judy Collins' 1963 version. When The Byrds started working on this song in 1965, McGuinn and David Crosby devised a new arrangement of Seeger's original, but it took the band over 50 tries to get the sound right.
In our Jewish tradition, "Turn Turn Turn" is part of our fall holiday of Sukkot, when this passage is read at synagogue. Countless cantors do it in the services. The Limeliters' LP you cite also included the first (I think) English rendition of "Those Were The Days", adapted by singer/mathematician Gene Raskin from a beloved Russian "romance" melody written in 1924. The only recorded translation from the Russian, until then was- Finnish! (The Finns loved the music of their cross-Baltic neighbor.) Jim McGuinn was a folkie from Chicago who also accompanied the Chad Mitchell Trio. The acoustic 12-string was relatively new on commercial records then. By the time he formed The Byrds, the electric 12-string had just been perfected. On "Mr. Tambourine Man", only McGuinn actually played guitar; the other musicians were Hollywood studio pros. "Turn Turn Turn" was their first record where they all could play- no wonder it took so many takes! A year later, Jim became "Roger" after he adopted an Indonesian Buddhist philosophy that allowed adherents to choose a "harmonious" name. (Probably a small sect; the Indonesians are overwhelmingly Muslim.) In any event, The Limeliters' rendition was probably too fast. I love The Byrds' record but there's a rare purity on this performance. Thanks for the upload!
This was the world the way it used to be and should be, not the way things are now, what a horrible change in the way people act and see things especially the young people who don,t want to know or hear about the way things were and they couldn,t care less either Wow !!!!!
Nothing can compare with this today, talent, beauty and intelligence and presentation, all this with out smoke, flashing lites and synthesisers OMG! Terry Offord
Beautifully sung. I haven't heard this before and always been a big Mary Hopkin fan. Great memories from a distant time the likes of which won't be repeated. Thanks for posting this!
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Thank You for reminding me of this glorious singer I so enjoyed listening to back when. It saddens me we no longer hear this beautiful music. I’m not far off from her current age & reminds me how quickly time has passed & of my own Immortality.
I'm 70 next year...and I am saddened to think that this sort of music will probably never be enjoyed by the younger generation....
then... play it for them... I do. Myself, I'm 67 next month and I still sing Nilsson. I'm not good at it... but I can still hit all but the highest notes...
Britain in the 1960's was simply overflowing with world class musical talent, and Mary was one of them. Oh, i long for those days to return.
When singers could actually sing and you could understand what they were saying. I’m 71…born in 1951…I still listen to this music and Engelbert Humperdinck, my all time fave.
Yes indeed... the old days were the better days!
Yes the best of times
❤👍👍👍
How is he creepy ?, what an idiotic thing to say
No dancers, no auto tune, no gimmicks. An amazing talent.
Apparently in the 21st century, talent for singing, writing songs and playing instruments is out of fashion.
@@michaelmccrory2220 🦋 Exactly 👍
And live singing without the back up of other’s.
And your brain seems to be on auto-pilot, with no original thought ever coming out of it, just threadbare utterances parroting other mindless geezers with arrested development and severely limited taste.
The song was written by Pete Seeger and popularized across the world in 1965 by the folk rock group The Byrds. If you're unable to grasp the beauty of both versions or of various successful versions of other songs, you shouldn't be disgracing yourself in public by dmbfck comments like yours.
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The voice of an angel
A supreme talent
A beautiful woman
A bygone age
A time to reflect
A lesson for us all
A privilege. Simply a privilege
Those were the days, my friend!
In the '60's we thought things were screwed up! Now I'd give everything to go back to that time and music. She was wonderful then and still is.
Things may have been screwed up, but there was also a spirit of optimism, a feeling that things were going to get better, that the world could become a better place for all. I wonder what happened, that feeling is sorely and sadly lacking now.
She was playing on a guitar that was a present from George Harrison. Well done, George. I hope Mary still keeps it.
Great tune, great singer. She was just a teenager but had such poise. And she’s still with us!
I crave the return of the time when a girl with a beatiful voice and the ability to play an instrument will once again be great.
There are a few popular artists right now who can play their own instruments but for some reason the industry prefers to downplay that aspect and instead focus on their images. It's like they feel that instruments would be too distracting to modern youth. Sometimes it feels like we've reverted back to the pre-Beatles era of pop music.
There are a great many women (and some girls) with great voices and musicality, but they rarely get played on commercial platforms.
@@undeadnightorc And sadly, instead of real talent, some nowadays think they have to dress up like tramps on stage to get the attention. Sure, they might have a bit of talent enough to get a recording...then they go off the beam. Yep, bring real talent back. Mary Hopking is still living, and about 73 years old. But retired last I heard. We've lost Judith Durham, and Olivia Newton-John this year. Hopefully not too many more real singersof their class of natural talent, leave us too soon. We've only just lost Gordon LIghtfoot of the male version folkies this week. Another one of my faves.
Keep on craving, because those times aren't coming back.
@@undeadnightorc And so, we enter a new "Dark Age"... Sadly, there is a lack of backbone/integrity at the top of the music industry, today.
As I watch this in march 2020 , the time to refrain from embracing has arrived . Beautiful and talented Mary Hopkin , those were the days .
In 2023, it is time for peace. Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
A crate, a step, a microphone… and pure talent behind it all. Simplicity in its purest form
I never heard or saw a television artist so down to earth,simple, beautiful and innocent such as Mary Hopkin❤.
Agree💯.. but it's Mary Hopkin...no "s'....
@@LeonThe4th thanks for correction 🙏.
Human beings are capable of creating such amazing beauty with just their voice and an instrument; this is a supreme moment from a beautiful, humble, sweet, unpretentious, talented woman.
My God .. how beautiful is this ?
WOW When singers had talent ... What a beautiful song sung by an angel.
A clear voice pleasant to listen to.
Some still do, Scottie: independent artists who are too good for the record industry moguls to grant them a contract. (They seem to prefer mediocrity, these days: terribly, terribly sad!)
Miss the days of great music and wonderful singers. Natural and all talent.
So clearly a voice meant to be a professional singer. So much talent, so much beauty.
Everything is fine: video, singer, guitar, presentator. All of it reflects education, good manners, respect, great music and a beautifil, peaceful atmosphere !
You really hit the nail on the head! Its not just any one thing, it is everything!!!!
God. It's a long time since I watched this. What a pure voice she had.
This popped up under some Seekers and Judith Durham songs on RUclips. I'd long forgotten it but saw it the first time around. I'm getting old. Just wrapped up some old handtools I must have bought about that time - a present for my son-in-law who has taken up fine detailed woodwork
A lovely simple pretty Welsh girl, who was more than happy to go back to Wales and be a Lovely simple pretty Welsh girl where she lives to this day. x
She was also married to Tony Visconti who produced David Bowie's records.She sang backing vocals on 'Low'.
Absolutely stunning!
Always loved Mary. Such a pleasant pure voice.
Her angelic voice was only superseded by her beauty.
A timeless song sung with a beautiful voice. Stands up to and surpasses many current songs.
Timeless voice , so beautiful .
I love her songs so much
My sister, Sandra, actually went to the same audition to Opportunity Knocks as Mary in 1968 (they did music together for 7 years in Grammar School). Hughie Green and the producers chose Mary to appear on the show over my sister - and the rest is history (-: Beautiful song, beautifully sung by Mary (-: This is the Mary I knew (-:
I'm sure your sister is a fantastic singer. Got to be a tough decision for the judges? Got many great singers to choose from but can only choose one.
@@jiveturkey9993 could have had a joint decision and have two winners how times have changed especially in the music industry you will never get these back again.
@sandiandstevie - sorry your sister lost out. Did she continue singing/performing and sustain a career in music?
Thankyou for sharing a beautiful story in a sense .. coming second in the audition to a world class singer .. only honour in that .. ❤️
Wow thanks for that
What a beautiful song and even more beautiful voice
she made a deep impression on me when i was a child and contributed to my love of music...real music!
I love her inflection and voice control. Most beautiful rendition !! !!
Just 2 words describes this Gorgeous Mary Hopkins songs an they r: "ABSOLUTELEY BEAUTIFULL." Just wat we need in these difficult times. Bravooooo Mary.
"Absolutely Beautiful" , are indeed appropriate words, but correctly spelt and not in capitals😘
Ps loved Hughie Green as a child, what a nice guy
I was 15 when this was shown and remember Mary Hopkin well. She was wonderful. Thanks for posting this and taking all these years away for a short time. This really brought me back to these wonderful times.
I was -1 years of age when this was shown ... those were the days!
She was 18
Stunning lady and Stunning song
They don't make em like that anymore
Thank you so very much for this video clip I'm transported back to sitting with Dad watching this live on TV
She is great
Wow, I knew Mary Hopkin from Those Were The Days and Knock Knock Who’s There, but I have never heard her sing this. It’s so beautiful.
She is still my favorite... fell in love with her first time that I heard her, about 1970......
My dad was Apple Corps. US marketing manager and tried hard to promote this gal and her music in America...
Oh my Gosh,this angel's voice makes me cry.Unfortunately there's no singers like that anymore.
What a spectacularly beautiful version.
I always have time for Mary Hopkin.
I was 9 years old. My parents shielded me, almost totally, from popular 60s music. Later, I grew up on Big Band "Swing" from the 30s and 40s. Only when about 18 did I discover ABBA, The Beatles, and others. What a beautiful musical revelation for me that even now keeps happily, magically unfolding and gloriously mesmerizing me.
One of the most beautiful singers of all time!,
The only star I ever fancied.I fell in love with her beautiful Welsh voice.My son in law showed me how to view her via you tube.It brought back memories I thought long since dead.Beautiful woman, fantastic singer.I think I was always in love with her. Danny,Ireland.
I listened to this song many times, I have to say, this is the best version I ever heard.
A haunting rendition of this song, gave me chills....so beautiful.
Straight up talent and so clear and direct with stunning voice.
Nowadays we have Cardi B singing about her wap. We are truly in end times now 😅
These days are gone forever...sadly
The single with the songs Turn, turn, turn and Those were the days (the latter with lyrics in Spanish) was the first we bought in my house. I was 6 years old. Adorable woman.
Pure beauty in looks and voice
It is from a time when there was real talent and everyone had natural looking teeth.
I had never knew Mary could play Guitar yet alone fingerstyle . Wow the talent in those days without any gadgets. No wonder McCartney had a yearn for her in the day. This was beautiful
I'd forgotten how beautiful this song and Mary Hopkin's rendition was.
I wasn't aware of this until recently.So glad this is available. Performers of this calibre will always be remembered and appreciated.
Rare that you find a video on RUclips that has been viewed over 10,000 times and not a single dislike. But - understandable. As beautiful as pure driven snow.
3 idiots disliked this song
There are now 4 idiots in this world.
I have played the Ramirez GH guitar for many years in my life. It was undoubtedly a beautiful sounding guitar & sounding all the more beautiful with Mary's voice.❤❤❤
In the bigger picture I am so pleased that a vocalist providing such wonderful music had her sound captured and it can be listened to ,today so clearly.
So how was it recorded do with think? All valve amplification and 35mm film?
It's considerably better than some recordings from the eighties and nineties.
@@londonwestman1 AKG C28 microphone (as seen used by the beatles in the let it be movie). Probably a transistor console by then. A Neve, calrec or similar. A EMT plate. Probably a Studer tape recorder or just directly to video.
Nothing special, really.
Such a pure, lovely voice. Remember this although I was only about 7 at the time. Got my mum to buy her single Those Were The Days and probably wore it out!
Sat next table to her in The Capri, a very small Soho restaurant, while Apple PR guy discussed her new contract. Just a few weeks later went back to same restaurant where her No1 was celebrated (Those were the days). Apple obviously realised her potential and signed a beautiful singer and musician.
I followed Mary Hopkins on opportunity knocks in the sixties to watch her winning each week, I remember on one occasion she sang house of the rising sun so awesomely they turned the lights down as a hushed audience listened enthralled to her beautiful exceptional voice ,it was an experience I have never forgotten , truly one of the all time greats,
she has an amazing voice!!! and she is so lovely. so many songs I would love to hear her sing from this day
One of my faves from my childhood, when I was hearing her music and that of the Beatles, humming her songs while on a swing growing up on an air force base in Canada. Those Were the Days ... awesome tune.
A woman fully clothed, no piercings, no tattoos, just playing and singing. What the hell is going on here?
It'll never catch on.
@@maxwellfan55 that's how all the teenage girls, dressed in the late 60s, great for us lads!
Brian Clayton In other words a classy woman.
Brian Clayton yes so natural. Face of doll. Pretty woman so sweety
It's something called "class" and "quality." Both totally lacking in today's "singers", whether male or female.
Haha.it is unbelievable isn’t it. The talent in those days was superb you had to be able to actually sing to make it. Unlike today
Just a beautiful voice and single guitar didnt even notice there was nothing else.
What a great cover and equally beautiful voice..
A Great voice.and talent wow some great singers came of this show .who remembers a angel called Lena zavronie.. bless .
What a dish she was. Loved her in the recording of Those were the days. A song as beautiful as she was.
I remember watching this in Grade school , Everyone really loved her sweet voice , We had to learn this song in choir practice , Great Melody ♥️🎸🎼🎶🎵🎧🎤♥️‼️
She was a great singer! Beautiful voice.
Even in a musical world of rock. pop. and Tamla Motown she shone like a star. Just listening to her makes me feel for a moment, a time that is as distant now as any star in the night sky. She was as special as they come and I knew it even then.
The guitar was a present from george harrison, wow
George Harrison was quite generous with handing out his guitars. He also gave Pete Ham of Badfinger his Gibson SG standard, which was used on a couple Beatles tracks and featured in Paperback Writer and Hey Bulldog music videos. As well as giving Badfinger’s drummer Mike Gibbins an acoustic George used at The Concert for Bangladesh because one of the strings was coming apart
Mary, you sang this lovely song beautifully!
I dare anyone to sing this better. It simply cannot be done. Absolutely superb.
Good, old times when shows and voices had a truckload of soul
Just talent. Amazing performance, wonderful.
tears in my eyes. Best performance of this song ever.
Love her for her charm and voice,no one can replace her,the one.
She was a huge star when I was a kid and rightly so! I used to pass her house on the school bus as she only lived a few miles from me. And as from other comments, lovely to see true talent in all it's glory and no gimmicks! "Da iawn it ti Cariad"!
The most beautiful, pure voice!!!!
A time of peace, I swear its not too late......I wish. Mary had such a beautiful voice, now all these decades later her daughter sings her songs in tribute.
I love watching old performances like this. It brings back a time when women singers just bare their talent! 😊🇵🇭❤
Fabulous talent, brilliant video. Thanks for this!
I'm a 22 year old British guy who mostly listens to dnb and grime, why do I love Mary Hopkin so much?
I just realised that it's because she's a genuinely brilliant singer, and she's a pretty cute lady
It’s just impossible not to love her.
I'm in middle school and i prefer this than the crap everyone likes now
@@NotTigiBoo This comes from a time long before pop music fell into a dark pit of ugliness.
Yes a wonderful voice. I was nine at the time but I didn't really appreciate the purity of her voice until I was an adult. A lovely , uncomplicated person. Another great entertainer who makes me proud to be Welsh. Also, I remember that Hughie Green was never nasty to the performers and gave constructive criticisms to some less talented performers, rather than the sometimes cruel remarks of today's panels.
That is so very beautiful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In some ways the Corona virus has simplified many lives to as it used to be. Lovely sound quality and I like black and white. Mary was excellent and MrGreen too. Fabulous productions in those days. Those certainly were the days my friend!.
I had the blessed joy to see Pete Seeger perform his masterpiece live. He introduced Turn, Turn, Turn by explaining his record producers requested he quit writing so many protest songs. Turn, Turn, Turn was his response to his producers demand. Glorious.
Simple - cant beat that voice & beauty within.
The most beautiful version........A wonderful talent.
2017 now i'm 65 ,,, so many songs from the 60's and 70's bring on such memories ,,, Now i know the saying "bitter sweet",,, bitter sweet ...for lost friends and lovers ,,, dreams dashed and dreams rewarded ,,, 100 songs make up my, "pull the plug" list ,,, "the days" is on my list ,,, made me sad even at 17 , first time i heard it ,,,
Just 18 years old. Amazing confidence and voice.
What a beautiful voice , lyric's, and young lady ! ❤
This was written by Pete Seeger, an influential folk singer and activist. He recorded a demo of the song around 1961 & included a live version on his 1962 LP The Bitter & The Sweet with just voice & guitar. The lyrics were taken from a passage from the book of Ecclesiastes (3:1-8) in The Bible. They were rearranged and paired with Seeger's music to make the song. Seeger explained: "I pulled out this slip of paper in my pocket & improvised a melody to it in 15 minutes. Within two months Pete Seeger's music publisher had sold it to the Limelighters who released an upbeat, banjo-based version in 1962 on their album "Folk Matinee".
Before he recorded this song with The Byrds, Jim McGuinn (who later went by "Roger") played acoustic 12-string guitar on Judy Collins' 1963 version.
When The Byrds started working on this song in 1965, McGuinn and David Crosby devised a new arrangement of Seeger's original, but it took the band over 50 tries to get the sound right.
In our Jewish tradition, "Turn Turn Turn" is part of our fall holiday of Sukkot, when this passage is read at synagogue. Countless cantors do it in the services. The Limeliters' LP you cite also included the first (I think) English rendition of "Those Were The Days", adapted by singer/mathematician Gene Raskin from a beloved Russian "romance" melody written in 1924. The only recorded translation from the Russian, until then was- Finnish! (The Finns loved the music of their cross-Baltic neighbor.)
Jim McGuinn was a folkie from Chicago who also accompanied the Chad Mitchell Trio. The acoustic 12-string was relatively new on commercial records then. By the time he formed The Byrds, the electric 12-string had just been perfected. On "Mr. Tambourine Man", only McGuinn actually played guitar; the other musicians were Hollywood studio pros. "Turn Turn Turn" was their first record where they all could play- no wonder it took so many takes! A year later, Jim became "Roger" after he adopted an Indonesian Buddhist philosophy that allowed adherents to choose a "harmonious" name. (Probably a small sect; the Indonesians are overwhelmingly Muslim.)
In any event, The Limeliters' rendition was probably too fast. I love The Byrds' record but there's a rare purity on this performance. Thanks for the upload!
This was the world the way it used to be and should be, not the way things are now, what a horrible change in the way people act and see things especially the young people who don,t want to know or hear about the way things were and they couldn,t care less either Wow !!!!!
The voice of an angel.
Beautiful Welsh lady with a exquisite voice,those where the days,when music was real music.
Oh so beautiful. Those were the days. Finest song of 60s with Ob li di
This is a talent seldom seen. Absolutely beautiful.
Nothing can compare with this today, talent, beauty and intelligence and presentation, all this with out smoke, flashing lites and synthesisers OMG! Terry Offord
Beautifully sung. I haven't heard this before and always been a big Mary Hopkin fan. Great memories from a distant time the likes of which won't be repeated. Thanks for posting this!
cant believe I had never heard this before... amazing! thanks for ULIng it.
So many sweet voices from my past and Mary's is one of the Sweetest ❤ Thank you for sharing this video.
My idol from young years :) I adored her... I was a secondary school pupil. I was born when she got on stage
I so much adore Mary. Such a pure voice. Lovely.