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"Those Were the Days" is a song composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) but credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to Fomin's Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu", [a] with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky. The song is a reminiscence of youth and romantic idealism.
A later act of vandalism leads to another arrest. The judge threatens to throw the book at him, sentencing him to six months in jail. Petey asks for a week's continuance before sentencing, then uses the time to court Martha when he discovers that she is the judge's daughter.
Mary Hopkin (born 3 May 1950), credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti from her marriage to Tony Visconti, is a Welsh singer best known for her 1968 UK number 1 single "Those Were the Days". She was one of the first artists to be signed to the Beatles ' Apple label.
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Eugene Raskin (September 5, 1909 in the Bronx, New York – June 7, 2004 in Manhattan, New York), [1] was an American musician and playwright, author of the lyrics of the English version of the Russian song "Those Were the Days" and also of three books on architecture and adjunct professor at Columbia University (1936–1976).
Two days later, the band’s legendary appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show was watched on television by an estimated 73 million of the nation’s 191 million people, or 38%.
Dalida covered the song after Mary Hopkin had a hit with her English version "Those Were the Days" one month earlier. [ 2 ] Le Temps des fleurs is Dalida's first recording to debut atop of French song chart, while it peaked the newly established "Centre d'Information et de Documentation du Disque" sales chart two weeks after entry. [ 3 ]