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  • Those Were The Days
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  • Folk songs
  • Ultratop 50 Singles (Flanders) number-one singles
  • Number-one singles in Norway
  • Number-one singles in Spain
  • Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
  • RPM Top Singles number-one singles
  • Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one singles
  • Number-one singles in Germany
  • Number-one singles in Switzerland
  • 1968 singles
  • Apple Records singles
  • Number-one debut singles
  • Oricon Weekly number-one singles
  • The 5th Dimension songs
  • UK Singles Chart number-one singles
  • Dolly Parton songs
  • Number-one singles in France
  • Sandie Shaw songs
  • Mary Hopkin songs
  • Song recordings produced by Paul McCartney
  • Russian songs
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  • %22Those Were the Days%22 is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put English lyrics to the Russian romance song %22Dorogoi dlinnoyu%22 (%22Дорогой длинною%22, lit. %22By the long road%22), composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism.Georgian singer Tamara Tsereteli (1900–1968) and Russian singer Alexander Vertinsky made what were probably the earliest recordings of the song, in 1925 and in 1926 respectively.The song is featured 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, but is probably best remembered in English-speaking countries for Mary Hopkin's 1968 recording, which was a chart-topping hit in much of the Northern Hemisphere. On most recorded versions of the song, Raskin is credited as the writer, even though he wrote only the later English lyrics and not the melody.Mary Hopkin's version was released as %22Kanashiki Tenshi%22 (悲しき天使, lit. %22Sad Angel%22) in Japan.
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  • Boris Fomin
  • Eugene Raskin
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  • 5714dee225ac0d8aee4ff60e
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  • USSE60413068
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  • Paul McCartney
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  • PT182.25739229S
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  • 61683
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  • 130453262
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  • english
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  • Apple Records
  • Pye Records
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  • mid-July 1968
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  • Those Were The Days
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