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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.
"Those Were the Days" (song), a 1968 song credited to Gene Raskin "Those Were the Days", a 1968 song by Cream first released on Wheels of Fire "Those Were the Days", the theme song of the 1970s sitcom All in the Family
Her debut single, "Those Were the Days", produced by McCartney, was released in the UK on 30 August 1968. Despite competition from well-established star Sandie Shaw, whose own single version of the song was also released that year, Hopkin's version became a number 1 hit on the UK Singles Chart. [5]
The song was played on the 2005/2006 Queen + Paul Rodgers tours with vocals provided by Roger Taylor. On stage the song was accompanied by a video of the band in their early days in Japan, including many shots focusing on past band members Freddie Mercury and John Deacon. [15]
Those Were the Days is a retrospective compilation of music recorded by the British rock band Cream, released on 23 September 1997.It comprises four compact discs and includes almost every studio track released during the band's active lifetime, with the exception of the original "Passing The Time" from Wheels of Fire, and all but three tracks from the live material recorded in 1968 and ...
Those Were the Days is the forty-first solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton. It was released on October 11, 2005, by Sugar Hill Records and Blue Eye Records. The album is a collection of covers of 1960s and 1970s folk and pop songs performed in a bluegrass style, some featuring the artists who originally recorded them.
She later recorded a much simpler version of the song with McCartney which was released as the B-side to "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" in 1970. [9] Alongside the reissue of Post Card, four versions of "Those Were The Days" in Italian, Spanish, German and French were released as a digital download. [21]
Those Were the Days is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on November 6, 1968, [1] by Columbia Records.It followed the formula of including covers of recent hit songs, the oldest, in this case, being "The End of the World", which hadn't been on the charts since 1963.