Those Were The Days

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  Seven Songs for the Week #156 - 1st Apr 26

  Jason Carty

  One of the first singles on The Beatles Apple Label, Those Were The Days was a massively successful release. Mary Hopkin was Paul's addition to the label, producing the Post Card album and having her record TWTD. Paul had heard the song performed by the writer of the English lyric version, Gene Raskin, in the mid-sixties and filed it away for a yet-to-be-known future use. The fact that there was so much success in Apple Records often gets overlooked in the drama/politics/hippie madness of the story. Those Were The Days is obviously a song Paul would have loved to have written himself, and although it might get criticised for its chintziness, in reality it should be praised for its accessible internationalism, which is really what a record label being run by The Beatles should have been going for.