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In the Netherlands, it topped the charts for two consecutive weeks. In the United States, Hopkin's recording reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 (held out of the top spot for three weeks by ' Hey Jude' by The Beatles) and topped the Billboard Easy Listening charts for six weeks. Hopkin's recording was produced by Paul McCartney with an arrangement by Richard Hewson and became a number-one hit on the UK Singles Chart. (Hopkin) picked it up very easily, as if she'd known it for years.' The song was eventually recorded in over twenty languages and by many different artists, including Gene and Francesca. He later said, 'I thought it was very catchy, it had something, it was a good treatment of nostalgia. Failing at that, after the formation of the Beatles' own Apple Records label, McCartney immediately recorded Mary Hopkin performing the song at Abbey Road Studios in London. Paul McCartney frequented the club and, being quite taken with the song, he attempted to get several singers or groups (including the early Moody Blues) to record it. The Raskins were international performers and had played London's 'Blue Angel' every year, always closing their show with the song. The Limeliters subsequently released a recording of the song on their 1962 LP Folk Matinee. Raskin, who had grown up hearing the song, wrote with his wife, new English lyrics to the old Russian music and then copyrighted both music and lyrics in his own name. In the early 1960s Raskin, with his wife Francesca, played folk music around Greenwich Village in New York, including White Horse Tavern.

On most recordings of the song, Raskin is credited as the sole writer, even though he wrote only the later English lyrics (which are not an English translation of the Russian lyrics) and not the music. Mary Hopkin's 1968 recording of it with Gene Raskin's lyric was a chart-topping hit in much of the Northern Hemisphere.

THOSE WERE THE DAYS OF MY LIFE LYRICS MOVIE

The song appears in the 1953 British/French movie Innocents in Paris, in which it was sung with its original Russian lyrics by the Russian Tzigane chanteuse Ludmila Lopato. Georgian singer Tamara Tsereteli (1900–1968) and Russian singer Alexander Vertinsky made what were probably the earliest recordings of the song, in 19 respectively. The song was featured on the US debut album which excluded some tracks missing from the UK LP Post Card but was omitted from the U.K. 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 also reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, behind ' Hey Jude' by the Beatles. Mary Hopkin's 1968 debut single of 'Those Were the Days', which was produced by Paul McCartney of the Beatles, and arranged by Richard Hewson, became a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and on the Canadian RPM Magazine charts. It also deals with tavern activities, which include drinking, singing and dancing. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism. ' Those Were the Days' is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song ' Дорогой длинною' (Romance transliteration 'Dorogoj dlinnoju', literally 'By the long road'), composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky.

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