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Artist: Mary Hopkin
Label: Capitol
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 077779757824
EAN: 0077779757824
ASIN: B000007S7J

Release Date: 1991-11-19

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My CD Collection, Part 4
NOVELTIES AND NOTIONS: GREAT ONE HIT WONDERS & ECLECTIC JOYS
The Beatles: With a Little Help From Their Friends & Family
Made In Wales for the World

Tracks:

Those Were The Days
Lord Of The Reedy River
Happiness Runs
Love Is The Sweetest Thing
Y Blodyn Gwyn
The Honeymoon Song
The Puppy Song
Inchworm
Voyage Of The Moon
Lullaby Of The Leaves
Young Love
Someone To Watch Over Me
Prince En Avignon
The Game
Show Business
Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)
Those Were The Days (Quelli Erano Giorni)
Those Were The Days (En Aguellos Dias)

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Customer Reviews:

First class Quality and Varity with great arrangements.......2007-03-10

This CD has a wonderful scope of material that shines thanks to great arrangments, and fantastic performances by Mary Hopkin. I think Paul deserves a lot of credit for boldly choosing a variety of material that showcases Mary's outstanding voice as well as her ability to interpret and deliver on anything from folk music to jazz standards. A credit to the "spirit" of Apple and the vision of the Beatles to create a label that would produce material such as this purely for the "art" of it all. I can't say enough good things about this CD. Mary herself may have been a little "taken aback" by having such a spectrum of material to sing, but she comes through with flying colors.

BEATLES' PROTEGE.......2005-12-30

One of the first artists to be signed to The Beatles' new found Apple Records in 1969, soft, quivering folk artist, Mary Hopkin, scored an international hit with a song derived from an obscure Eastern European ballad; "Those Were The Days", was an elaborate, five minutes-plus hit record, recalling a German folk pop nostalgia, an unlikely Top 40 sound that was ultimately accused of anti-Semitic sentiment with its Euro-tavern, post war, alcohol fueled longings:, "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'd choose, we'd fight and never lose, for we were young and sure to have our way." Paul McCartney produced this first Hopkin album which includes songs penned by, Donovan, (Lord of The Reedy River, Happiness Runs, Voyage of The Moon), Harry Nilsson, (The Puppy Song), and Beatles' producer, George Martin, (The Game), plus some unfortunate McCartney choices in the likes of show tunes by Gershwin, and the no surprise, "There's No Business Like Show Business". In her element as a folk artist, Hopkin possesses a strong, lilting, mermaid with a lair vocal delivery, rooted in traditional European folk, that seduces like a cross between a warm vodka and a cold lemonade. She's a fairly fine guitar strummer as well. The bonus tracks are an Italian and Spanish version of "Those Were The Days", (the Italian version sounds particularly fine and genuine), and the 'B' side of "Those Were The Days", an acoustic version of The Byrds' "Turn,Turn, Turn".

an outstanding voice wasted on throwaway songs.......2005-09-12

yes still 5 stars because she has one of the great voices of all time & very hard to believe that she was only 16 or 17 @ the time of this recording so....before ya get your knickers in an uproar over my review title, let the record state that mary herself was not very pleased with the song selection that 'uncle paul ' had chosen for her. I think he was a little too influenced by what his mum & dad were listening too when he was a young bloke in liverpool.... I believe that she was more interested in doing folk songs than songs like ' show business ' which really is too painful to listen to because its' so cheesy sounding... I recently was given an original mono LP release of this recording by an ex apple employee who had it sitting around his house for the last 36 years collecting dust, but still in mint condition.. & in spite of what I've said above, its' one of my most cherished records..I should say also that the early 1969 uk release on 33 1/3 LP did not include the wonderful song..'those were the days ' track listing is slightly different...so for the cd compilation I give it 5 stars because of ' those were the days ' being included & the wonderful donovan leach tune..' the lord of the reedy river '..for me anyway about half of the tracks are enjoyable & for the remaining tracks the music is just dull which distracts from mary's voice..I know this is not the normal type of music review that one is looking for to help them choose.. but I think that most who may read this already know of mary's beautiful voice.. paul should have thought about doing an alternate version of this postcard release with different songs & different musicians to hold back for a possible later release..really..I feel that george martin would have been a better choice as a producer for mary hopkin..can you imagine her singing a song like ..' a taste of honey ' with voice double tracked and a little echo thrown in??? p.s for those interested ' those were the days ' can still be found in mint/ and/or nice playable condition on 45 rpm on the original apple label & @ a nice price as I've found several nice copies recently on ebay one from the u.k & one from india

Very mixed results.......2003-04-09

First:

"Those were the days" was playing one day on the college station on the way to work and i was very impressed, I thought I could get an album of interesting interpretations of folk songs.

I got this instead - something that definitely undershot my expectations.

"Those were the days" and her Welsh songs (I'm a sucker for a Welsh girl singer, see my reviews of catatonia) were great - I mean very very complex sounding different stuff.

Even the meandering "Lord of the Reedy river" had a good story behind it that at least kept me interested.

...But the rest of the album was not that great. I seriously considered frisbeeing the CD when i heard the puppy song.

The record, as a whole, doesn't seem to havea vision thing going on -- what do the sum of these songs elicit in me" -- they..don't, and that's my problem.

I'm intrigued by the other reviews about her other discontinued record.

All in all, Mary is a great singer with a lovely voice -- it's just that the material and presentation thereof on this album does not serve to illustrate these facts.

Sweet and Beautiful Collection.......2002-09-23

I think the 60s and folk music are probably good things, even though I wasn't born until 1989. I hope readers will take more heed to reviews that show an open-mindedness to both than to reviews that clearly idolize some other music form, such as jazz, soundly dismiss folk music, and equate the 60s with inescapable immaturity. This disc provides a rare and diverse selection from a most underrated singer. Mary Hopkin is not one of the big names in either 60s music or folk music, but her songs on this disk sure win my heart. Those Were The Days, I'm told, was her one biggest hit, and it begins this disk, and what a lovely and haunting start. She even ends the disk with lovely versions of that song in Spanish and Italian. In between is an amazing variety of songs, including some in two more languages other than English. Y Blodyn Gwyn, the one in her native Welsh, is particularly hauntingly beautiful. Other reviews have mentioned other beautiful entries such as Lord of the Reedy River and Lullaby of the Leaves. In addition, one I've not seen mentioned in other reviews, but which I find particularly lovely is Voyage of the Moon. Although the 1960s and the folk era indeed produced bigger names in music, this is a contribution that no one with a liking for those times should miss. Listen to it, and Mary Hopkin can have as big a role as many a bigger-named artist in convincing you that indeed those were the days.

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