Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days free for downloading

For everyone who come here, you have good taste of music guys Edit: Sorry for my bad English, i'm Indonesian

A lot of us are here because this song speaks of our youth. A time of freedom, independence and good times. Deep down some of us (if we could) would go back and never return to the present. We can't, but we can sure thank God we lived back then.

This was an Old Russian folk song. I grew up in a family from Lithuania and it was often sung in Lithuanian at holiday gatherings. It brings back a huge rush of heartfelt memories.

I miss those days. Late sixties - the early seventies had the best music

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paul mccartney produced this song and it knock the beatles hey jude for number one song in 1968...very ironic !

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It always reminds me of my father. When the song was played on the Lawrence Welk Show, Dad always sang along. We miss our loved ones so.

I was in college when this song came out, I appreciate it's words more now I'm 2 years older than Mary Hopkin. I didn't marry my girlfriend, but the girl I did marry made me forget her almost completely except every now and again like when I hear this song. I hope she's as happy as I am now!!!

The summer of 1968 my friend and I met at a bar every Friday with our future husbands.. We'd lift a glass and sing this song at the top of our lungs. My friend suddenly passed away and her funeral was yesterday. We sang it last night, with tears in our eyes.

** A toast...... to those of us looking back........ to when our hair was darker...and our hearts were lighter.

Dedicadet to all old People who are alone and in fear - these days - of their lives ❤️

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Wow... The voice of an Angel, the face of an Angel, and one of the best songs of that era. What an incredible time it was...

What an impossibly sweet, angelic voice... she sounds so innocent, it's delightful.

I remember sitting in the cafe with my dad pregnant at 17 my dad had cancer.this song came on and l saw our reflection in the glass knowing this was the last time we would have this time together ,l had tears and looked over and noticed the tears in his eyes. It was a special moment out of 6 kids i was the middle child and i was closer ti him than the others it caused a lot of trouble in the family ,but l knew it was because l always took the time to talk to him and listen to him,he was a sad man that before l was born there was a fire and he carried hus dead baby boy out of the burning house. I looked just like him with blonde curly hair and ornery while my sisters had dark straight hair and didn't talk to him and was better behaved ,but l on the other hand made him talk to me and it made him laugh .That song reminded me how glad l was that l got to know him before he died

"By the long road" is a Russian romance written in 1924 by Boris Fomin (music) and Konstantin Podrevsky (words). The earliest recordings of the song were made by Alexander Vertinsky (1926) and Tamara Tsereteli (1929). Since the second half of the 1920s, in Paris, among Russian exiles, the romance was constantly performed in the restaurant of Nastya Polyakova. American architect, writer, and musician Eugene (Gene) Ruskin, whose parents were from Russia, wrote new English words to the slightly modified melody of the song "By the long road" and recorded it in 1962 under the title "Those Were the Days". In the same year, the song was released by the American folk trio "the Limeliters" on the album "Folk Matinee". In 1964, Ruskin's performance at the Blue Angel club in London was heard by Paul McCartney, who four years later chose "Those Were the Days" for the debut single of 18-year-old Welsh singer Mary Hopkin. Russian singer Alexander Vertinsky recorded the song several times in the 1920s and 1930s. There is a version accompanied by the orchestra of Lonel Bagheak, released on Columbia Records. There is also a version recorded with the orchestra of the Warsaw recording company Syrena-Electro in 1932.

I'm only 15, but this song makes me feel nostalgic and sad because I have to think of my great - grandparents, my grandmother and her siblings, even if i never knew some of them, but I imagine beeing there with them... Those were the days.....