Mary Hopkin ~ Those Were The Days (1968)

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  • Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
  • This song by "Mary Hopkin" was released in 1968 and reached number 1 here in the uk charts.This song is originally a russian song,and the English lyrics were wrote by Gene Raskin.

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  • @ABritInThePhilippines
    @ABritInThePhilippines 5 лет назад +219

    One of my favourite songs by Mary...

    • @TheShamwari
      @TheShamwari 4 года назад +1

      Sory I meant JUDY PAGE nee KALLIE .

    • @lorddaver5729
      @lorddaver5729 4 года назад +4

      The song was written by Paul McCartney.

    • @adoretit20
      @adoretit20 3 года назад +13

      @@lorddaver5729 this is a folklore russian song

    • @Cree8Ball
      @Cree8Ball 3 года назад +2

      @@adoretit20 yeah, that’s what I thought

    • @donovan9564
      @donovan9564 11 месяцев назад +2

      Mary Hopkins forever and ever since Ipiales Nariño Colombia América Latina 😢😢🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @MrStillwind
    @MrStillwind 10 лет назад +87

    We were young,we were reckless and daring. We grew up in the 50's and 60's during the birth of R&R and we had the time of our lives. Today, it could never be duplicated the fun we had and the things we experienced.

    • @stevchipmunk1
      @stevchipmunk1 10 лет назад +16

      Well, there were the killing fields of the Vietnam War, and John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated... but in between those events, there was the beautiful music, the wild days and nights, and the magic of growing up and breath-taking explorations and wondering what we would be when we grew up. I'm still wondering and hoping, even though I now have strong suspicions that I will never get there... Ahhhh, but still those were the days...

    • @MrStillwind
      @MrStillwind 10 лет назад +12

      stevchipmunk1 Their is no such thing as a perfect world. Living through those decades though bring back memories that can never be repeated. Peace!

    • @Kirke182
      @Kirke182 9 лет назад +9

      Especially not with the crappy music they have now.

    • @MrStillwind
      @MrStillwind 9 лет назад +3

      Kirke182 Copy that!

    • @MrExsasperated
      @MrExsasperated 9 лет назад +3

      Kirke182 Damn right.

  • @geraldmyers221
    @geraldmyers221 10 лет назад +217

    Lost my wife of 44 years (cancer) February 12 of this year. It has been harder than I thought it would be. This damn song (the parts I could remember) has been running thorough my head for the last three or four days, had to look it up.
    We pretty much did get to live the life we choose, but you always think you will get one more day together, until you don't.
    Damn.

    • @Tantalus52
      @Tantalus52 10 лет назад +4

      I am so sorry. It will be hard for a long time> It will never go away, but it will get a little easier. God;s peace.

    • @geraldmyers221
      @geraldmyers221 10 лет назад +3

      Richard Severson Thank you. I Suspect you are right.

    • @kevinmc8397
      @kevinmc8397 9 лет назад +5

      believe me or not but you will meet again

    • @geraldmyers221
      @geraldmyers221 9 лет назад +6

      kevin mc Probably. Tie was pretty tight - used to call her "My friend and mate from many lifetimes."

    • @skudaarkaat1
      @skudaarkaat1 9 лет назад +6

      My heart goes out to you, Gerald. She sounds like a lovely person, and I know how you must miss her. You AND her were lucky people to have known each other.

  • @arroyodeangeles
    @arroyodeangeles 3 года назад +34

    The sensations it causes in me, listening to this song, are indescribable. I was 20 years old at that time, today I am 73 years old.

    • @horseyhorselips3501
      @horseyhorselips3501 3 года назад +3

      I was 13 years old in 1968, and today is my 66th Birthday 🎂 as I text

    • @milesbrown8016
      @milesbrown8016 2 месяца назад

      You made it cobber

  • @dr.johnhanna6500
    @dr.johnhanna6500 8 лет назад +14

    It is true those were the days,beautiful days

    • @thesceptic7968
      @thesceptic7968 7 лет назад

      False memory. The past is another country and best forgotten.

    • @ZnenTitan
      @ZnenTitan 7 лет назад

      Yes... They do things differently there.

  • @brianmoore7755
    @brianmoore7755 4 месяца назад +16

    I had a crush on Mary and when I worked in London I dated a girl called Margaret who was the doppelganger of Mary. I can listen to this over and over again. Love you Mary ❤💋

  • @dianataylor8758
    @dianataylor8758 8 лет назад +5

    Just loved this song in high school, thought the lyrics were wonderful. Over the decades, I've found the lyrics more profound, and haunting. Still love it!

    • @ZnenTitan
      @ZnenTitan 7 лет назад

      Time does that, and makes all that was real illusion and shadow.

  • @sharonletchford9375
    @sharonletchford9375 5 месяцев назад +18

    This song takes a me back to those carefree happy times ❤❤❤

  • @PhilWatson
    @PhilWatson 9 лет назад +30

    Nostalgia ain't what it used to be! ;)
    Lovely Russian folk song produced by Paul McCartney with a hauntingly beautiful arrangement by Richard Anthony Hewson (RAH Band) and exquisitely sung by Mary.

    • @trw5653
      @trw5653 9 лет назад +3

      A nice memory song from childhood days too :)
      Sending a hug and mellow thoughts to you and yours Phil.

    • @varigdc10
      @varigdc10 8 лет назад +3

      +Phil Watson Yes, Boris Fomin wrote this piece with original name " Daroga Dlynaya ", in English " The Long Road ", funny thing my name is Alex Fomin, my parents now deceased were Russian, holy batman, am I related to Boris?

    • @deanschulze3129
      @deanschulze3129 8 лет назад

      "Good artists copy. Great artist steal." Picasso

  • @robharding1957
    @robharding1957 8 лет назад +32

    Every time I hear this song, I am in my school uniform and getting ready to walk to school, but I wouldn't mind being eleven all over again. happy days,

    • @spiceworm8102
      @spiceworm8102 7 лет назад +4

      i assumed you were a woman for some reason. haha.

    • @robharding1957
      @robharding1957 7 лет назад +3

      No ! definitely male !!

  • @oldermuscleguy
    @oldermuscleguy 10 лет назад +35

    I always had a soft spot in my heart for this song

    • @CARLSFOLKCLUB
      @CARLSFOLKCLUB  10 лет назад

      It's a great song Norman and sung by a very beautiful lady. Many thanks for your comment...

    • @starhawkhunt4762
      @starhawkhunt4762 10 лет назад

      if you like fantasy at all, try a version called Time Winds Tavern

    • @garybeauchamp3623
      @garybeauchamp3623 8 лет назад +4

      +Norman Witt Yes, when we are young we all think it will go on and on, but at age 70, I know now it doesn't, but I still love the song and its' sentiment.

    • @harrylivesey9043
      @harrylivesey9043 8 лет назад +7

      +Gary Beauchamp me almost 70..still listening

    • @georgeannperry7316
      @georgeannperry7316 8 лет назад +9

      +Michael Diehl almost 60 and still love it...seems like the meaning gets a little clearer and touches a bit deeper every few years!

  • @joesteedman8230
    @joesteedman8230 6 месяцев назад +15

    We would sing this on the school bus 🚌 3rd graders singing about the good old days lol.looking back now damn I wish those days were back.😢

  • @ronflynn5043
    @ronflynn5043 9 месяцев назад +13

    I had the tremendous pleasure of meeting mary, way back in the 1960s, when she went to birchgrove to say goodbye to her 2 school girl friends ,before she departed to london to sing with the beatles, we spent some time together, time that I will treasure forever. bless her.

  • @ramezredarr
    @ramezredarr 9 лет назад +29

    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
    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 choose
    We'd fight and never lose
    For we were young and sure to have our way.
    La la la la...
    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
    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 choose
    We'd fight and never lose
    Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
    La la la la...
    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
    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 choose
    We'd fight and never lose
    Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
    La la la la...
    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
    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 choose
    We'd fight and never lose
    Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
    La la la la...

    • @thegrimreaper4915
      @thegrimreaper4915 5 лет назад +1

      I don't see the point in repetition. We all know the words. Why not just say you liked it.

    • @horseyhorselips3501
      @horseyhorselips3501 3 года назад

      The Grim Reaper let the guy write what he wants it’s called freedom of speech and by the way my date of birth and Social Security Number and three fingers on my left hand all count 666

    • @horseyhorselips3501
      @horseyhorselips3501 3 года назад

      The Grim Reaper and in 1983 in Basic Training at Fort Benning Georgia I told John Travolta I had a Daughter in Alaska named Jewel and he met her before I did and he sings on a CD 💿 with my first born

    • @horseyhorselips3501
      @horseyhorselips3501 3 года назад

      The Grim Reaper and his first Born and his Wife both Died
      And you call yourself what
      Better find a new name

    • @horseyhorselips3501
      @horseyhorselips3501 3 года назад

      The Grim Reaper and Jewel’s father gave me Jewel’s mother’s hand in marriage at an LRY Conference in Toronto Canada September 1,1973 because I had a Draft Card for the Vietnam War

  • @sabrinam3900
    @sabrinam3900 8 лет назад +4

    My late mom told me she was 14 when this song came out and I grew up listening to it :) Now I'm sharing it with my own children, yay to classics!

  • @runningjockey2
    @runningjockey2 8 лет назад +15

    Whenever I hear this song I am immediately transported back to a pub in Nottingham in 1968, when I first heard the song by Mary Hopkin. It has remained one of my favourite songs ever since.

    • @Klamorr
      @Klamorr 8 лет назад

      +runningjockey2 What pub was it? I just moved to Nottingham!! I'd love to check it out. :D

    • @runningjockey2
      @runningjockey2 8 лет назад

      The pub is called The Market Side,so called because it was adjacent to Sneinton Market.
      I believe it is closed now.Try The Bell Inn and The Trip To Jerusalem in town.
      Regards G

  • @juncaneda7574
    @juncaneda7574 4 года назад +33

    So much memories behind this song. From my high school, college and until now that my breath is about to end, living in senior housing. Thank you for this.

  • @naenae1646
    @naenae1646 10 лет назад +36

    ........the other night I stood and stared at the rubble where the taverns once stood and I sang this song after my companion said "those were the days". In the River I saw empty reflections where boats would dock, and happy times were had.....so sad. And I ask myself will we ever have fun like that again?

    • @naenae1646
      @naenae1646 10 лет назад

      Alzaede Mohamed love u back baby!

    • @billcampbell9886
      @billcampbell9886 10 лет назад +5

      The body ages, but the heart is forever young. Get a group of your old friends together for a cook out or a camp out, or a couple of hours at a cozy pub; you don't have to be young and rowdy to have fun.

    • @naenae1646
      @naenae1646 10 лет назад +1

      Bill Campbell but still rowdy! I don't sit still, I'll be the old crazy lady

    • @rumplestiltskin6744
      @rumplestiltskin6744 10 лет назад +1

      Dear Nae Nae.."Fun like that Again" ?...Oh Hell Yes Hon..ya just have to look in the right Places in real Life...NOT on the Big BS Cobweb here..
      If Assholes could Fly...This place would be an International Air Port.

    • @CountvonCount33
      @CountvonCount33 10 лет назад +1

      Rumple Stiltskin
      Yup, and judging by your tone you would have your arse firmly parked in "flight control", am I right? Lol!

  • @MsCordially
    @MsCordially 9 лет назад +26

    my gosh what a gorgeous lady

    • @eugeneendres5846
      @eugeneendres5846 9 лет назад +9

      MsCordially Yes - she is.

    • @MoMoMyPup10
      @MoMoMyPup10 8 лет назад +4

      +MsCordially Agree, simple beauty is worth so much more.

  • @civilappellatemt.lavinia708
    @civilappellatemt.lavinia708 6 месяцев назад +9

    To all of you who have commented and still in this world. I heard this song on last Sunday in my car radio in the retro station Gold FM of Sri Lanka which can be heard on the jnternet. They still play these ❤😊😊😊❤❤😊❤😊😊

  • @jackvolta3489
    @jackvolta3489 3 года назад +7

    Loved this song when I was a kid, Im 63 now and Mary was not only a great singer
    She was a looker as well. 😎👍👍

    • @nabilchahine3766
      @nabilchahine3766 3 года назад

      MARY. HOPKIN is an island her best world's perfume is her immortal song THE TAVERNE .

  • @louisramosLEFTYLOUIE
    @louisramosLEFTYLOUIE 9 лет назад +20

    Beautiful song! Fine young lady! reminds me a little of jewel! both fine artists! both made music you could listen all day long and night!

  • @tommooe4524
    @tommooe4524 2 месяца назад +10

    75 now and i remember 1968 and this song like it was this morning.

    • @willythemailboy2
      @willythemailboy2 2 месяца назад +1

      I grew up to my dad playing this on vinyl. We just buried him this month, but the memories live on.

  • @angelaswann3461
    @angelaswann3461 Год назад +9

    I was born in 1968, but I remember hearing this song during my childhood. It hits me differently now, as I remember people and times in my life I cannot return to, maybe not even in my dreams. If you are a young person, treasure the people in your life for these are the memories you will cherish later.

    • @kevincassidy7385
      @kevincassidy7385 Год назад

      Me too. Born in November I assume it was on the radio on the way to JSMC. In Nov 2000 I heard Breathless 4 times on the radio driving between the delivery room and home to let the dogs out, lol.

    • @user-ey1rw8nj2b
      @user-ey1rw8nj2b 2 месяца назад

      So true!❤

  • @AquariusCrystalwave
    @AquariusCrystalwave 5 лет назад +15

    such a beautiful and powerful song about how fast life moves along... especially when we aren't paying attention... one of my favorite songs as a child ❤️

  • @jayleeper1512
    @jayleeper1512 4 месяца назад +10

    Suddenly, I am back in my 1957 Fairlane listening on the Town and Country wonder Bar Radio bopping down the highway. Blue birds and blue sky. 😁

  • @LJG907
    @LJG907 9 лет назад +20

    I remember those days, too, and when this song was aired on the radio.... So true, and now these are our days, my friend .... Thank you !!!

    • @EarthSurferUSA
      @EarthSurferUSA 6 лет назад

      Where dreams end and at childhood, or a tavern of the youth?
      The days after that, for a "thinking" and "doing" person, are much better in a free society. We have to dream more than just getting a job or coloring your hair blue though.

    • @EarthSurferUSA
      @EarthSurferUSA 6 лет назад

      There is one line in this song that I do not like. "We are older but no wiser, because in our hearts, our dreams are still the same." Where does the writer think greatness comes from, slouches? What stopped you from achieving your dreams? Ask Preston Thomas Tucker. (look him up)

  • @Carmelo4752
    @Carmelo4752 7 месяцев назад +15

    Those Were The Days
    says it all. Blessed to have experienced them.

  • @katwil89
    @katwil89 3 года назад +14

    The year I turned 9 years old (1968) my parents gave me a record player along with the 45 of this song, which was the first record I played on it. I loved the song back then and I still love it now. Of course, it has a more poignant meaning now than it did over 50 years ago.

    • @tomcomiskey6350
      @tomcomiskey6350 3 года назад +3

      I was 18 , on my way to Viet Nam.

    • @Tiberius291
      @Tiberius291 3 года назад +1

      I was 11 years old when my mother bought my sister and i a record player, and the first record we played on it was the 'Carpenters' song 'Rainy Days and Mondays' ( 1971 )

    • @katwil89
      @katwil89 3 года назад +1

      @@Tiberius291 We must be around the same age.

    • @Tiberius291
      @Tiberius291 3 года назад

      @@katwil89 Yes we are, I was born September 1959.

    • @katwil89
      @katwil89 3 года назад +1

      @@Tiberius291 I was November 1959!

  • @nivenrowe59
    @nivenrowe59 Год назад +16

    I miss those days. The best ever. Gone.😢

  • @JG-vc5lg
    @JG-vc5lg 5 лет назад +16

    This song makes me think of my mother. It makes me cry.

  • @lilamoi5971
    @lilamoi5971 2 года назад +9

    The best thing about youth is believing dreams can come true. Suddenly you're in your fifties and you realise you don't have dreams anymore. Life has taken you places you'd never thought you'd find yourself in and you can't find your way out.

    • @rhodium1096
      @rhodium1096 2 года назад +3

      Russians say " If the young only knew and the old could"...

    • @sebxiou-lifestyle4465
      @sebxiou-lifestyle4465 2 года назад +2

      Hi I am apparently older than you. True BUT there are only two options: live your life or get-out. I don't recommend the latter, it is somewhat final and one would never see a Spring day again. So one must say "sod it" and make the very best of all the remaining time - why not? Do your best to have a good life from here and very good luck to you.

    • @ingridlinbohm7682
      @ingridlinbohm7682 2 года назад +1

      Personally I have found my fifties to be a highly interesting decade. I have been in hospital four times, twice of which I have been given the last rites. Live the life given you by God. Most of my school friends are dead due to their disabilities including one who suffocated to death at the age of eight years old under her bed clothes because she was to weak to remove the blankets. One friend who died aged sixteen, another at the age of seventeen. I am going to be sixty next month and the doctors said I would be dead before I was thirty years old. If you get to be eighty you will think being sixty is young. I had a friend who thought my father was young when my father became seventy. Do not waste your life. Do good to others, try to heal any resentments you may have. Lovingly obey God and serve others and you will not have wasted your life.

    • @lilamoi5971
      @lilamoi5971 2 года назад

      @@ingridlinbohm7682 This is the best advice I've had in a long time. Greatly appreciate your input. It gives me peace and hope. Thank you Ms. Ingrid 🥰💚

  • @terter5226
    @terter5226 4 года назад +8

    When I first heard those were the days ..Mary Hopkins I was working in Wales as an apprentice away from home.. it came on in a bar Bistro where you got free cheese if you bought a bottle of wine I remember thinking I'll remember this moment I had my whole life in front of me I'm glad I still can remember it now.. I am in the Autumn of my years :)

  • @seamusgavigan3093
    @seamusgavigan3093 5 лет назад +8

    Every time I hear Mary Hopkin sing this song it really takes me back she has one of those voices that will never die

  • @Mercy_Chanter
    @Mercy_Chanter 7 лет назад +8

    I love this song! I lived in London when it first came out. Paul McCartney discovered her and made her famous. Truly, those were the dayst

  • @mjw12345
    @mjw12345 2 месяца назад +6

    Never grows old! Never will - one of the most enchanting, entrancing voices! Bonus, from hearsay,I hear she's a lovely lady as well.

  • @painterbythesea
    @painterbythesea 11 лет назад

    a wonderful song, wonderful times, I was in Bangkok, 1970, when I heard it.....I have forever been enthralled by this evocative song, so very well done and sung. Thank you, Mary Hopkins!

  • @sfopaladin2661
    @sfopaladin2661 2 месяца назад +9

    Yes... Go ahead and make a crazy whirlpool with our wild and crazy antics in those days. I loved them. Wish I could go back and stay there and never leave. Kalgon take me away!!!!!

    • @thomaspeitl3959
      @thomaspeitl3959 2 месяца назад

      so geht es wohl den meisten,jeder Tag war ein Erlebnis und voller Emotionen,die Erinnerung kann uns aber keiner nehmen

  • @user-uu6nm4vw6w
    @user-uu6nm4vw6w 2 месяца назад +7

    I first heard this song in1968. It brings back so many memories🤩

  • @jasondaniel918
    @jasondaniel918 Год назад +7

    I was a young punk undergraduate when this song was released. I loved this song. The Eastern European vibe and the sentiments captured my attention. I am now in my 70's - a doctoral level education, a 20-year military career, a 20-year clergy career, three dead-in-the-water marriages and a lifetime of personal loss all part of my life experience. I still love this song, and I can vouch for its sentiments. It's true; it's really true!!

  • @trickymicky0007
    @trickymicky0007 10 лет назад +2

    what an absolutely delightful young lady-beautiful song sung by a natural beauty

  • @georgelee43211
    @georgelee43211 5 лет назад +7

    many years ago,a dishwasher i worked with his name toni from cuba a nice fellow,one day, i've bought my cassette player in to work,with a mix tape of beatles and other apple artists and mary hopkin's ''those were the days''came playing out and toni was happy listen to it,i gave toni the cassette player and tape, sadly ton was a heavy smoker and died of cancer,i think of him whenever i play this song.

  • @hamzahzainal9615
    @hamzahzainal9615 6 лет назад +11

    Such a beautiful song with a beautiful voice sung by a beautiful singer.. can't be denied..!!

  • @ajelan
    @ajelan 10 лет назад +6

    RUSSIAN IN SPIRIT BUT THAT ROARING 30'S.....INFLUENCE WITH A BEAUTIFUL VOICE.....PURE INNOCENCE AND NOSTALGIC......

  • @joelstein4657
    @joelstein4657 10 месяцев назад +11

    I will always be amazed by the wisdom of many of the young in the sixties and seventies. I'm afraid it has been lost over the years. I think the post WWII world had something to do with it. I'm old now and realize the timelessness of this song. Each generation has its tavern.

    • @oldfella3919
      @oldfella3919 10 месяцев назад

      wisdom? Get outta here ... drug induced hippies.

  • @martinkuliza
    @martinkuliza 6 лет назад +12

    Who's listening to this in 2018?
    .... 50 years later... My god hehe how time flies.
    as a child i use to think MARY POPPINS used to sing this :P

  • @lonniebeavers7794
    @lonniebeavers7794 4 месяца назад +8

    To change the world was so easy back then . And all we have is memories to look back on .

  • @Joepipsquiggle
    @Joepipsquiggle Год назад +10

    Listening with a crying heart...❤❤❤ Those Were THE DAYS for sure....

  • @jjxtwo1
    @jjxtwo1 7 месяцев назад +11

    Man, the memories that this song brings.

  • @davidbarradine7902
    @davidbarradine7902 6 лет назад +7

    I was nine years old when this song was released, little realising how true it would become for me in my teenage years. I miss those days in the Inn, playing darts, drinking beer and the sound of youthful laughter.

  • @santiagoarestegui
    @santiagoarestegui 8 месяцев назад +9

    Mum made me listen it when I was a teenager in the mid1980s and I love it from then on.

  • @LionelBrunet
    @LionelBrunet 4 года назад +5

    I remember this song like if it was sang yesterday . I was young and so crazy about her voice. Those days were so much fun and bring me so many good memories.

  • @ericvigen
    @ericvigen 5 лет назад +8

    This song takes me to half a century ago to "those days" that I was a little happy boy ... I LOVE Mary Hopkin's voice. She literally and figuratively is a golden girl. ❤

  • @weiweipeng3633
    @weiweipeng3633 7 месяцев назад +12

    Love this beautiful song !!
    🎵👍💐❤️

  • @GVBGS57
    @GVBGS57 3 месяца назад +7

    Remember this like those days I thought would never end back in the day!

  • @theonemodifier
    @theonemodifier 8 лет назад +3

    love this timeless song forever and day. Those truely were the days my friend, of real music and instuments.

  • @markokelly2494
    @markokelly2494 5 лет назад +12

    The first time I heard this song, I must have been 13 or 14 years old. It didn't impress me much. But now I'm 63, and it seems extremely powerful to me.

    • @jeffreycorklin9347
      @jeffreycorklin9347 5 лет назад +1

      I was 5 when this song was out, all I remembered was the chorus. I'm 55 now and have rediscovered this song, and yes, it's extremely powerful to me also.

  • @MrTatts64
    @MrTatts64 6 лет назад +9

    I was born at the end of 1964, yet I can clearly remember growing up with this song in the background. Be it on the radio or my sisters record player. I can remember this but haven't got a clue what I ate yesterday!

  • @annpenrod5850
    @annpenrod5850 3 года назад +5

    Such a melancholy song...
    & if an old girl still has photos
    of her lover & friends...
    the tears don't stop....

  • @mingmak5388
    @mingmak5388 Год назад +6

    I first heard Mary Hopkin sing this song while eavesdropping on foreign radio broadcasts in rural China near Hong Kong in 1968. At that time, radio stations in Hong Kong often broadcast this song. Although I don't know her name, and I don't understand the content of the English lyrics, I just feel that her singing voice and the melody of the music are enthusiastic and unrestrained, which always be engraved in my memory and let me yearn for a free life even more.
    After coming to the free world for decades, until I retired, I finally heard Mary Hopkin sing this song again on RUclips. also known this song originate from Russian folk song. After listening to the singing and band performances of singers from various countries, I always feel that Mary Hopkin's singing is the most touching!
    最初聽到 Mary Hopkin 唱這首歌是1968年在靠近香港的中國農村,偷聽國外的無線電廣播。當時香港的廣播電台經常播送這首歌。雖然我不知道她的名字,也不懂英文歌詞的內容,只感覺她的歌聲和音樂的旋律熱情奔放,永遠刻在我的記憶裡,讓我更嚮往自由的生活。
    來到了自由世界幾十年,直到退休之後,終於在RUclips 再聽到Mary Hopkin 唱這首歌。也知道它源自俄羅斯的民歌。聆聽過各國歌星的演唱和樂隊演奏,總覺得Mary Hopkin 唱得最動人心坎!

    • @yackawaytube
      @yackawaytube Год назад +1

      China supporters would attack you as the running dog of the West and claim China has more freedom than any other country

    • @ernestoangelsantacruzporta785
      @ernestoangelsantacruzporta785 11 месяцев назад

      Ella hizo mas famosa a esta linda canción rusa, por su linda voz y su exquisita belleza, muchos la han interpretado, pero ninguno se iguala a Mary Hopkin.

  • @paulwilson2651
    @paulwilson2651 3 года назад +11

    She was lovely!

  • @Excalibar999
    @Excalibar999 9 лет назад

    Beautiful lyrics and so fitting for those who grew up in the 60s...if I was any younger would never appreciate this genre. Was truely a blessed time to be growing up.

  • @MsGus57
    @MsGus57 10 лет назад +6

    "THE YEARS WENT RUSHING BY US, WE LOST OUR STARRY NOTIONS ON THE WAY"
    How very true. Anyway great song. Thanks for posting it. I remember it well from 1968.

    • @CARLSFOLKCLUB
      @CARLSFOLKCLUB  10 лет назад

      You're very welcome Sue, many thanks for your comment, have a great coming new year...

    • @danlivni2097
      @danlivni2097 8 лет назад +1

      +sue barker
      Mary was 18 when this song came out.
      She was just a teenager.
      Now she's 66

  • @bigben1731
    @bigben1731 10 лет назад +1

    mary they don't do music like this anymore thanks for the memories the world was a better place back then reminds me of some one very special regads brian

  • @jomosley4751
    @jomosley4751 Год назад +9

    Loved it 1968 and now it is so true. Beautiful lady

  • @DHudelson
    @DHudelson 9 лет назад

    Timeless classic. Nothing like it on the radio at the time. Pure magical combination song, arrangement and Mary.

  • @roydidlock1012
    @roydidlock1012 6 лет назад +9

    First heard this on the radio as a liitle boy in 1968 and it still sounds great 50 years later.

    • @andrewbrowning9770
      @andrewbrowning9770 5 лет назад

      I also was 6 in 1968 remember it on the Radio, a red Roberts Radio.

  • @nataw6678
    @nataw6678 8 лет назад +1

    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 choose
    We'd fight and never lose
    Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
    La la la la...

  • @georgeswery7040
    @georgeswery7040 5 месяцев назад +8

    Souvenir de mon 'service militaire' en 1968-69 séparé de ma future épouse pendant 12 mois. Nous sommes toujours heureux ensemble depuis . 55 ans de bonheur.

  • @gdcat777
    @gdcat777 9 лет назад

    This makes me cry every time. When we are happy, we never think it will end or that we will ever be sad. This reminds me of December '68 when I was aged 7, and its kind of stayed with me ever since.

  • @bonanzajoe
    @bonanzajoe 3 месяца назад +6

    I first heard this song by Mary in 1971. I'll neve forget it.

  • @jamesbowen8960
    @jamesbowen8960 5 лет назад +6

    My goodness Mary Hopkin was so gorgeous back then! I just loved that song! I was 6 in 1968. Detroit Tigers were World Series champions, Motown was at its finest with all the great talent. Bob Seger was paying his dues all over town with Glenn Frey. Ted Nugent& the Amboy Dukes, Grand Funk Railroad, The Who and Cream at the Grande Ballroom on Grand River south of Joy Rd. Led Zeppelin at the Michigan Palace downtown with Jethro Tull warming them up. It will never be that great again. My sister was 11 years older than me so that's how I was aware of that stuff! Incredible!

  • @JohnHawkins-nw4wi
    @JohnHawkins-nw4wi 4 месяца назад +6

    This was a truly amazing song and she was so gorgeous!

  • @faridalizada1009
    @faridalizada1009 2 месяца назад +6

    In 2024 it’s my first time heard it and fallen in love with this song

  • @peggyscharfenstein6253
    @peggyscharfenstein6253 3 года назад +6

    I always have said I wish I could go back to that era!!!

  • @muhammedg7864
    @muhammedg7864 10 лет назад +1

    A very beautiful lady and a wonderful voice-I love this song.

  • @johnbirch7343
    @johnbirch7343 3 года назад +6

    So many memories from this song and that time period.

  • @STS007
    @STS007 Год назад +4

    2023 driving through a city I used to pass regularly as a teenager in the 70s this song 🎵 came to me ❤❤❤❤

  • @garyh9039
    @garyh9039 4 месяца назад +5

    So many great songs back then. This is one I had forgotten about.

  • @canelakuky5341
    @canelakuky5341 10 месяцев назад +4

    Tenía 11 años cuando está canción se escuchaba en la radio Me trae recuerdos de tiempos felices Hoy tengo 66 años y retrocedí en el tiempo y vi a mis padres y hermanas a mi sobrinito de 3 años Hoy ellos ya están en el cielo Que bellos recuerdos con esa dulce voz Que pena que esos tiempos ya no regresen

  • @TheVaughan5
    @TheVaughan5 10 лет назад +5

    Thanks - those were the days of my youth that now seem like another world. We should never look back but sometimes it's impossible not to, the good thing is we tend to only remember the good times and what good times we had!

    • @geraldmyers221
      @geraldmyers221 9 лет назад

      Respectfully, it is not true that "We should never look back..." What is important is not to get stuck in the past. Maril and I had really good times, and really bad times together (we lost a daughter), but overall, this song gets it. "The busy years went flying by us...").
      And here we are, with our memories and whatever life is left before us.
      This song is probably the best definition of 'bittersweet' ever written.]
      God, I miss her.

  • @thomast8539
    @thomast8539 4 года назад +8

    Wow! I haven't heard this song since I was a child. I never knew who sang this and then I find out that Mary not only had an angelic voice, she had an angelic face to go with it.

    • @BETTERWORLDSGT
      @BETTERWORLDSGT 4 года назад +2

      I remember hearing it playing all the time too in the early seventies, it was a 1968 but I remember hearing it all the time in 71, 72 so memorable.

  • @TheHamada1700
    @TheHamada1700 6 лет назад +8

    It's 2018 and we still listening to this awesome song 😍

  • @dillharris1953
    @dillharris1953 6 лет назад +9

    This is a winter-time song, as I remember it. It came out in the winter and was a hit during the winter. And it evokes, with its "looking through the window into the tavern" from out in the cold-type feel, a sense of winter. And that's how I'll always remember it, as a winter-time song.

    • @kmac8854
      @kmac8854 6 лет назад +2

      Corn Puff just to confirm do you think this is a winter song!

    • @thomasthetiger
      @thomasthetiger 6 лет назад

      Winter is here

    • @bigbobey1680
      @bigbobey1680 6 лет назад

      Col Tosh no he doesn't really XD

  • @lucyfaiella7220
    @lucyfaiella7220 3 года назад +6

    MARY HOPKIN IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND HER SONGS ARE AMAZING..❤💙💚💛 LOVE YOU 🎶🎵🎼💜💜❤💙

  • @desertrat5522
    @desertrat5522 9 лет назад +1

    I have not heard this song for 30+ years, thanks for sharing.

  • @amarieiniculai5720
    @amarieiniculai5720 5 месяцев назад +7

    Dupa 56 de ani ramane o piesa superba.❤❤❤🇲🇩🇲🇩🇹🇩

  • @rayszymarek2920
    @rayszymarek2920 8 лет назад +2

    This song back in 1967 brings back sweet and sour memories. I just returned after serving in Viet Nam. It was so wonderful to come home Many soldiers got together and we all talked about what happened over in Nam and how many of our fellow men and women gave up their lives. We appreciate every day of our lives. This song depicts so much in life. Good Days and Bad Days. Thank you for posting this.

    • @j330558
      @j330558 7 лет назад

      Thanks for your service. I'm a VN era vet, lost my best friend in the service over there (Panel 01E, Line 79). Good Days and Bad Days indeed.

  • @adamsksof.348
    @adamsksof.348 4 месяца назад +12

    Those were the good old days !

  • @bigfeatred7772
    @bigfeatred7772 10 месяцев назад +11

    Only now being old I can appreciate her song.

    • @rickyandersson5203
      @rickyandersson5203 10 месяцев назад +1

      I did learn to love this song in the seventies when i was maybe 8-12 years old and still does.

  • @stevejanssens-mn8nb
    @stevejanssens-mn8nb 4 месяца назад +11

    this song is love and pain together, great song

  • @edwardjames50
    @edwardjames50 9 лет назад +1

    That year you couldn't turn on a radio without hearing this.

  • @jmadratz
    @jmadratz 7 месяцев назад +21

    She was 18 in September 1968 when this was released.

    • @bertjesklotepino
      @bertjesklotepino 7 месяцев назад +1

      they would not have chosen her if she wasn't.
      Plenty of 65 year olds who could do this song the same way, but they just don't look the same.
      And looks do sell

    • @bobhunter4676
      @bobhunter4676 5 месяцев назад +2

      Ok then do it ​@bertjesklotepino

  • @Steve-yo4ld
    @Steve-yo4ld 2 года назад +5

    I remember the summer of "68" very well! Our family spent a lot of time at the lake! There was a Bar and Grill we would eat at and of course there was a "Juke Box" with 45s, and this is one of the many songs we played!!!!💓
    To the days we thought would last forever!!!💕
    The single biggest word in the English Language is "IF"😔

  • @richardmclean7949
    @richardmclean7949 Год назад +7

    Mary Hopkins with the Beatles I'm Lost for words. ❤❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢

  • @BernardGreenberg
    @BernardGreenberg 10 месяцев назад +3

    I remember this so well; what a darling she was, such sweetness, purity and innocence. She was born only days before me.

  • @antoniocarlosdorosario8849
    @antoniocarlosdorosario8849 9 месяцев назад +9

    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?
    CHORUS: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 choose.
    We'd fight and never lose. For we were young and sure to have our way.
    La-la-la-da-da-da. La-la-la-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da, la-da-da-da-da
    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?
    CHORUS: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 choose
    We'd fight and never lose. Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days
    La-la-la-da-da-da. La-la-la-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da
    La-la-la-da-da-da. La-la-la-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da.
    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
    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 choose
    We'd fight and never lose. Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days
    La-la-la-da-da-da. La-la-la-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da
    La-la-la-da-da-da. La-la-la-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da.
    Era uma vez uma taberna. Onde costumávamos levantar uma ou duas taças.
    Lembre-se de como rimos durante horas. Pense em todas as grandes coisas que faríamos?
    REFRÃO: Aqueles eram os dias, meu amigo. Pensávamos que eles nunca iriam acabar.Cantaríamos e dançaríamos para sempre e um dia. Viveríamos a vida que escolhemos. Nós lutaríamos e nunca perderíamos. Pois éramos jovens e certamente conseguiríamos o que queremos.
    La-la-la-da-da-da. La-la-la-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da, la-da-da-da-da
    Ainda esta noite eu estava diante da taverna. Nada parecia do jeito que costumava ser
    No vidro vi um reflexo estranho. Aquela mulher solitária era realmente eu?
    REFRÃO: Aqueles eram os dias, meu amigo. Pensávamos que eles nunca iriam acabar.
    Cantaríamos e dançaríamos para sempre e um dia. Nós viveríamos a vida que escolhemos
    Nós lutaríamos e nunca perderíamos. Aqueles foram os dias, ah, sim, aqueles foram os dias
    La-la-la-da-da-da. La-la-la-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da. La-la-la-da-da-da. La-la-la-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da.
    Pela porta, ouviram-se risadas familiares. Eu vi seu rosto e ouvi você chamar meu nome
    Oh, meu amigo, somos mais velhos, mas não mais sábios. Pois em nossos corações, os sonhos ainda são os mesmos.
    Aqueles foram os dias, meu amigo. Nós pensamos que eles nunca iriam acabar. Cantaríamos e dançaríamos para sempre e um dia. La-la-la-da-da-da. La-la-la-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da
    La-la-la-da-da-da. La-la-la-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da.
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    • @leevize6045
      @leevize6045 8 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you. I do like to sing along with her.

  • @johnwilcox7672
    @johnwilcox7672 6 лет назад +4

    This song was popular when I was in college. The homecoming theme my senior year was "Those Where The Days" in October, 1969 as our college (Manchester College in Indiana was celebrating its 80th birthday! This song was so right for our homecomming! A talented singer singing a beautiful song!

  • @lowdown4651
    @lowdown4651 6 лет назад +11

    She was soooo pretty, and her voice was beautiful, then she faded away not uncommon in 64/77 but i love the song and Mary thank you peace.

    • @user-et5ji7nb5l
      @user-et5ji7nb5l 6 лет назад

      low down was!? do you mean she sings with the angels now?

  • @darrylsmith1471
    @darrylsmith1471 3 месяца назад +4

    I remember hearing this song as a little kid in 1968, still sounds good these days.