Joanne Singer Harrow
Those were the days was my favourite in the 1960's
Tue Jun 16 17:37:25 2009
Joanna Philipps, Battle, East Sussex, England
I love 'Those Were The Days' which is my favourite song to sing at karaoke! Apologies to Mary, but it has done me good to sing again, and make new friends.
Mon Jun 15 15:39:15 2009
Pat Richmond, Barry Vale of Glamorgan
Mary's new CD 'Now and Then' has just been released ... It is wonderful so many great tracks you can get it only via her website at Mary Hopkin Music...She has also done lots of interviews on BBC radio.
Tue Jun 2 18:03:27 2009
Jorge Munoz, Concepcion City, Chile
I was searching for Mary Hopkin music a couple of years ago and I found only one or two videos. Today I just could not believe how much music and videos are available.
Mary's music took me back to my younger days. I was in tears of joy and happiness as well as sadness for all the time that has passed without being in touch with Mary's music and the wonderful gift her music means to me...
I am sure that Mary's music can help us during this time of global crisis...Mary please sing again Saludos from Jorge Munoz
Tue May 26 16:32:57 2009
Stephen Baker
Favourite album? Earth Song/Ocean Song. Favourite song?See above album, plus Yn Y Bore (Morning of my life, in Welsh) and Both Sides Now - live at Royal Festival Hall, London.
Wed Jan 14 15:51:21 2009
Glenn Hudson, Lynchburg Va USA
When reading Beatles news website...I saw an article on Mary. One thing led to another, finally to youtube. I was absolutely stunned to my very bones with her, not just her songs, but her face, her decency as a human being, and the glory of God which is quite apparent upon her every move. I have never seen a creature so absolutely lovely, who has surely touched the world in her time of fame, and onward. Im 51, male, American, songwriter, singer, and businessman. I am deeply touched by Mary and will never be the same.
Mon Dec 29 10:51:02 2008
Steve Martin
The wonderful song for all my days is on utube, just search on google Mary Hopkin - for all my days.
Tue Dec 9 17:31:00 2008
Pat Richmond
Reply to Jess Taylor from Manchester: Yes Mary recorded the title song "For all My days" from 'Kidnapped' it is still available on CD and DVD. BTW she has a new CD coming out next week called "Recollections".
Mon Nov 24 16:15:03 2008
Jess Taylor from Manchester
Have been searching to see if Mary Hopkins made a recording of a song she sang at the end of the film 'Kidnapped' starring Michael Caine in 1971. The song is called 'For All My Days'. Can anyone help ?
Wed Nov 19 15:57:38 2008
Thomas Chacko
I first heard the song "Those were the days" about two years back and instantly became a Mary Hopkin fan. Since then, I have been collecting all her songs and has found them captivating. What a voice!
Wed May 14 09:38:38 2008
Tomoya Kuramochi of Hidaka City Saitama Japan
Mary's clear, innocent, fantastic voice and lovely songs always encourage me. I am a fan of Mary since my teens.Recently I visited John's museum nearby (Saitama New City Center) where exhibiting his memorials and Yoko's arts and belongings. I found some books about The Beatles including Mary's photos and her days in Apple. May 3rd is Mary's birthday. Let me say here for Mary, 'Happy Birthday to you'.
Tue May 6 09:24:32 2008
Nele
Mary Hopkins' songs were my saviour, during the sorrow of a violent marriage. I loved her songs, so i memorised the words, and actually sang 'Those Were The Days' at parties, and none suspected my sorrow, as i looked happy singing.
Singing was allowed by my ex. but strictly no dancing!Thanks Mary Hopkins for your songs 'Those Were The Days', 'Goodbye' 'Knock, Knock' 'Temma Harbour' mainly for the boost I needed when I was lonely, but I had many many close friends who made the parties such fun, and i could forget my LIFE of pain and sorrow,just singing your sweet songs, at home anywhere.
Now touch wood I am a new and happier person, and I still sing your songs, but with a happier outlook to life.God Bless you.
lovenele fernando
Fri Jan 4 10:17:57 2008
Bonnie from Palm Beach County, Florida, U.S.A.
I have been singing this song since I was 18 years old...having been born in June 1950...so 1968! I sang it on my way to college classes in my yellow Volkswagen Bug with flowers painted on the doors! Those really were the days!
I was mentioning the words to someone in an email and found this site when I was searching for the writer. How PROLIFIC she was as we, the Baby Boomers, all born after World War II, are now getting ready to retire. As we look back at our youthful days and what we did, how we thought, our lives through the years, our children, our lovers, our spouses...and where we are today!
Ironically, I am listening, as I write, to a PBS special about the bands and singers of the "British Invasion"...right now playing..."Whiter Shade of Pale"!
Thanks for the memories and I hope that Mary is doing well! She should contact PBS and sing once again! They do these shows as fundraisers, but pay the participants! We, in America, never knew how good we had it in those days...Thanks again for a wonderful song!
Thu Jan 3 16:03:30 2008
Pat Richmond
Me too Lynne! A fan since the 60's and I still look through my scrapbooks and wonder where the years have gone! It will be 40 years in 2008 since 'Those Were The Days' was released and I think BBC Wales should do something to celebrate this!
Tue Nov 20 14:49:13 2007
Lynne Langton W.Yorks
I have been a fan of Mary since her first hit record. I have still got my scrapbooks of her, in which she has signed them all. Keep singing Mary.
Wed Nov 14 12:01:45 2007
Viktor Postnikov from Kiev
I'm 58, Russian, a great fan of the 60's music; being a teenager, would cling to my transitor throughout the days (and nights) to hear favorite voices. Mary Hopkin is one of the sweetest memories of those days. When my heart is heavy, I put her records, and, lo! I'm saved! Thank you, dear Mary! Correction: 'Those Were the Days', was originally Russian (not Lithuanian) tune, written in the 1920s.
Wed Jun 27 15:39:10 2007
Jacquie W
Dear Mary Hopkin yes, and her golden voice! I still love to listen to her music, especially the song she recorded in Welsh, titled 'Y Blodyn Gwyn'. Having once tried studying Welsh myself, I would love to have the original lyrics to that song! Must have spent half a lifetime already to find them!
Mon Jun 4 09:27:16 2007
Derek Alcock, Flintshire
When will we ever see/hear you again? Will you emerge from relative recluse to enrich your fans (there must still be millions of 'em, young and older!) Whether it be radio, TV or DVD (current), or, even better, Gigs! P-L-E-A-S-E BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!
Mon May 28 10:29:28 2007
Gary Quinn North Carolina USA
I remember watching Mary on Oppertunity knocks and have been a fan ever since, I have managed to collect some vintage video clips of Mary that are priceless to me.
Tue Nov 28 09:43:22 2006
Hum Umbach, Alberta, Canada.
I first heard of you through a friend S.Phillips from Neath S.Wales. We met on the internet and she sent me a couple of your songs along with a pic of Paul Macartney singing to you.Kindest regards
Hum
Tue Nov 14 14:04:40 2006
Trevor Harland Middlesbrough
Mary Hopkin has always been a big part of my life - the good memories of my teenage years, collecting her records, photos and I've still got the scrapbook I showed Mary on her visit to Stockton's then Radio Tees, nearly 40 years ago? Seems like yesterday.
Mon Oct 16 11:11:20 2006
James, Newcastle
It will be 40 years soon since the release of Those Were The Days, so come on BBC look at all the comments here and elsewhere on your site about the song and how it has affected people and stayed in our memories for so long ... Some sort of tribute or celebration is called for.
Mon Sep 4 09:14:51 2006
PHILIP JUDD RAYLEIGH ESSEX
I remember seeing mary going into the london palladium,about 68,69 she was in panto there, i had all the records, but i did not get to see the show, i was about 15 at the time, it was just lovely to see her face to face, she really was beautiful.
Mon Jul 17 09:15:11 2006
John Adams, Broomfield, Colorado, formerly of Seil
Earth Song, Ocean Song is the best album of all time. Happy Birthday, Mary, where ever you are!
Wed May 3 15:33:25 2006
Roxanne, Milton Keynes, Bucks
My favourite song is, Temma Harbour, but I really enjoyed hearing Mary sing the streets of London at a festival in Oxford with Ralph Mac,tell. Its great to have the website, please keep singing Mary, you have a great voice.
Wed Mar 15 21:56:58 2006
Patricia - formerly Anglesey-now Canada.
When we, as a family, emigrated to Canada in 1968 - practically every shop played "Those Were The Days, My Friend", with Mary's hauntingly lovely voice! And now, finding this site today, I intend to find and buy all her previous records, CDs, or whatever! And "Y Deryn Pur" as well - I'm bilingual, you see! And 77 years old...!
Tue Feb 21 20:19:03 2006
Derek Alcock from Flint
My favourite song of Mary's is anything she sings! Seriously tho' I melt to "Temma Harbour" and "Goodbye"! Her unbeatably beautiful voice is matched only by her looks; then and now!
Mon Feb 20 19:26:31 2006
Nicolas CH. from Lebanon
Well, I'm not only a fan of Mary H., but I do consider her like a "Princess of the Music".
In the last 70'th, when I was just a teen, her "crystalline" voice in many songs (Those Were The Days, Water, Paper and Clay, etc.) made me dream.
Now and since I bought many CD's of her, I listen to her lovely voice when I'm overwhelmed or stressed, after a long and exhausting day at my parisian office,it brings me the serenity i need.
Bless you Mary ...
Thu Jan 5 00:34:20 2006
Yasutoshi Hizaka from Japan
I am a Japanese old fan.
I hear music of mary hopkin after a long absence and feel nostalgic for old days.
The record which I bought for the first time is impressed by a clear singing voice before 37 years in her music again.
I knew that a CD was released and purchased a CD at once.
When traveled in the U.K. four years ago, went to a town of Pontardowe that she was born, but || very
I was impressed by solid row of houses along a city street.
A tone of a harp and harmony of her voice are very clean, and Y BLODYN GWYN singing by Welsh thinks that it is her hometown itself.
I can look for her information recently only from a website. My dream wants to hear her singing voice by all means in a town of Pontardowe. And I want to meet Mary Hopkin.
Tue Dec 20 15:59:22 2005
Marie Berger from Lincoln
I am listening to 'Post Card' right now and, as in the early seventies when I first heard her, I love the way her voice floats beautifully in her unique way.
Sat Nov 12 19:22:41 2005
Chris, Barry
A wonderful new CD by Mary has become available, she does lots of folk songs but her version of Aderyn Pur is superb.
go to http://www.morganhopkin.co.uk
Thu Sep 29 20:41:50 2005
Pat from Chicago via Antigua
I did not know much about Mary until now.
I first heard her singing Temma Harbour during the 70's on my island home of Antigua in the West Indies when I was a teen. I have been living in the USA for 20 years and no one I have asked (including Virgin Records) had ever heard of the song or Mary.
I remember listening to her song on Radio Antilles (Monstserrat) pop charts, while at the beach floating on my back and looking up at the clouds pass by. Great memories to a wonderful sweet song.
I am so happy to have rediscovered it again here.
Fri Sep 2 20:46:32 2005
Stan Carter Birmingham
From the very first time I saw and heard Mary I have been captivated... she was the inspiration for my poem Cymru which I wrote in 1968 after visiting Pontardawe. She has made people sit up and realise what a wonderful country Wales is and her being part of it draws people like myself to the wonderful magic that is Wales... and now all these years later I too look into the glass... and see a strange reflection... but not of a lonely man but one that has been enriched by the voice and personality of a wonderful lady from Wales...
Sat Aug 20 13:41:34 2005
John Jones (really!) Pontardawe
Just came across this site.
Spoke to Mary this very day, she was visiting her mother and her sister Carol.
Mary was three years behind me in the local Grammar School.
She now lives near Brecon.
Sun Aug 14 21:32:29 2005
Maggie Scott-Nicholson from New Zealand
I'm so glad to have found this website, we were all huge fans of Mary Hopkin and we all wished we could be her. My favourite songs were "Knock Knock Who's There" and "Temma Harbour"
Thu Aug 11 05:06:16 2005
Tam Smith from Falkirk
I have been a huge fan of Mary since I first saw her on Opportunity Knocks in 1967. My favourite song is Ocean Song which has helped me through troubled times. It is brilliant I can now find out lots more about her including music I never knew she had made. She is my no. 1.
Thu Jul 21 14:03:41 2005
Pat, Wales
Reply to readers comment...
Many singers have recorded 'Those were the Days' other than Mary... From Frank Sinatra to Sandie Shaw... Not wanting to drag you away from the BBC's brilliant 'homage' to Mary but if you go to www.maryhopkin.net there is a whole page dedicated to the song 'Those Were The Days'...
Wed Jun 1 09:38:24 2005
Leslie from Perth, Australia
Who else has recorded Those were the Days my Friends?
Sat May 28 17:03:50 2005
Aaron from Raleigh, NC, USA
I think the flip from "Days" was "Sparrow", a hauntingly beautiful piece that no one could possibly render like dear Mary. What a jewel!
Wed May 25 00:03:48 2005
Allan Wyn Davies, Orillia, Ont. Canada
Days is my favorite song. Still a fan from day one Mary.
Cofion Cynnes.
Allan.
Tue Mar 1 00:25:35 2005
Vince
Strange one, my mother in law was in East Surrey Hospital in 2005, and the visiting Priest who came to see was Mary Hopkin?
No wonder we haven't heard from her!
Mon Feb 28 13:55:55 2005
Rusty from Herault France (34)
"Those Were The Days" is the song I know her best. I woundered what happened to her. Your website has helped me. Thanks, Rusty
Wed Feb 9 01:59:14 2005
Justin from London
Mary is brilliant. My favourite song is 'In The Reedy River'. It's a shame that the 'Postcard' album doesn't have more songs like this. I haven't heard any of her more recent material.
Sat Jan 22 03:18:27 2005
Joe C Foryan from Moses Lake, WA, USA
My favourite song is Temma Harbour!
I love the melody and lyrics!
Fri Dec 24 06:03:40 2004
Micky
Just found the most beautiful oil on canvas painting of Mary in a charity shop dated 1970. Artist J? Payne. Anyone heard of this guy or was he just a fan like me?
Mon Nov 8 21:46:18 2004
