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 Mary Hopkin - Those Were the Days, Compilation CD |
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Posted: 06-07-2008, 14:04
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About Mary's discovery, she appeared on British TV singing Turn turn turn. Among the viewers was Twiggy, who let Paul McCartney know that she might be a bit special. Paul eventually signed her to Apple records. Compilation CD from Apple Records includes, what is likely the complete history of Hopkin singles through 1971, plus the previously unreleased, "When I Am Old One Day", which is a more charitable and conservative outlook of The Beatles' "When I'm 64". Signature song, the vodka in a Euro tavern ballad, "Those Were The Days", is here as is follow-up single, the McCartney/Lennon penned, lily o' the valley song, "Goodbye". The compilation works very well as a single listen of clean-cut folk pop, like Donovan Leach without the psychedelia, and Old English travelling virgin minstrel charm. "Temma Harbour", is a Sergio Mendes/Free Design-like plastic seascape of tanned bodies and white sea caps with popping Caribbean percussion, and "Water, Paper and Clay", is a lightweight, (the far extreme of blood, sweat, and tears), and solemn song prayer featuring a Joan Baez-like drum circle with echoing choir. Perhaps the most compelling track is the overly dramatic, but investing, "Let My Name Be Sorrow", a brooding Juliet mongering that swells like a storm into opera territory. The CD liner notes offer second hand, superficial filler on Hopkin's history. Track List: 1. Those Were the Days 2. Goodbye 3. Temma Harbour 4. Think About Your Children 5. Knock Knock Who's There 6. Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) 7. Lontano Degli Occhi 8. Sparrow 9. Heritage 10. Fields of St. Etienne 11. Jefferson 12. Lew My Name Be Sorrow 13. Kew Gardens 14. When I Am Old One Day 15. Silver Birch and Weeping Willow 16. Streets of London 17. Water, Paper and Clay
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