I have been a huge fan for years. She and McCartney two massive joys in my life.

Thanks for that. I remember all those songs. "Goodbye" was a particular favourite. It puts me straight back to 1969, standing in the schoolyard at recess listening to my little transistor radio through the little white ear plug.

Speaking of Mary Hopkin, one can't forget her admirable background vocals on Bert Jansch's Moonshine album. Ewan MacColl's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", possibly the best love song ever written. Great video, greetings from Michigan.

I remember watching her on the telly in the late 60s. We were very young but excited that a fellow Welsh person was famous and singing such great songs.

Hi John. It's Eliot Wien from NYC. I had no idea that Mary Hopkin was in a band called OASIS in 1984. The album never came out in the USA. I found a copy of the album with original inner sleeve, and their 2 singles. One came in a black sleeve, and the other had a picture sleeve. I found everything on Discogs. I love your channel and all your videos. I'm going to the Fest For Beatles on Saturday. It's being held at Kennedy Airport at the TWA Hotel to celebrate 60 years that The Beatles came to the USA!

I didn't know much about Mark Hopkin except Those Were the Days and Goodbye, but after watching your video I'm to listen to song of the albums you recommended here. Great video John, thanks for sharing.

Mary Hopkin is wonderful. I really need to listen to her albums that I missed.

My favorite song by Mary has always been Martha!

Paul is a very generous person with musicians I don’t know too much about Mary So I appreciate your information Thankyou .

Very pleased to see this and hear your praise for Mary Hopkin! One of my absolute favorite songs of all time is "Sparrow." The moodiness is countered marvelously by the chorus choir, and the sax at the end playing over the choir is hauntingly beautiful. There are some wonderful KZread videos of live performances of it. The one from 1972 at Royal Festival Hall features her saying how her friends (Gallagher & Lyle) wrote it for her when she first came to London, and how homesick it made her. I'm also partial to "The fields of St. Etienne" and"Someone to Watch Over Me." Oh! And her rendition of Cat Stevens' "The Wind" is superb. Also love "Here Are We" from her 2020 album Another Road. I've recently found a near-mint German pressing of Post Card and it's stunning, in my opinion. Thank you for this "appreciation."

@SuperNevile

5 ай бұрын

'Goodbye' was a great single with 'Sparrow' on the B side.. The only reason I heard 'Sparrow' is because a radio DJ decided to play it rather than the A side., and I bought the single for that reason. The other great G&L song is 'A Heart in New York' by Art Garfunkel, and I bought the album for that. 'Sparrow', and 'International' would definitely be in my top 3 of Mary Hopkin songs.

To my taste and ears, 1971’s EARTH SONG/OCEAN SONG is her masterpiece album!..

Thank you for reminding us what a great singer Mary Hopkin is. In addition to the albums you mention, I have bought from her own label I think, on CD, the albums Now And Then, Valentine, You Look Familiar, Recollections and Live At the Royal Festival Hall 1972. At the time Goodbye was released, I remember that Mary in an interview admitted that Goodbye was not really her kind of song. What she preferred, were songs like The Windmills Of Your Mind, which she thought had great poetic lyrics.

Perfect timing!! This past Sunday I picked the "Oasis" album at a record fair in downtown Athens... Haven't put it on the table yet, but will very soon!!! My Mary Hopkin obsessions are: 1) Let My Name Be Sorrow (what a performance!!) 2) If You Love Me / Tell Me Know (what a killer 45 from '76!) 3) Mary Had A Baby (a Christmas song she actually elevated!!!) 4) There's Got To Be More (what an album track!) 5) Sparrow (the church bell is ringing in my ears!!) All in all, a fantastic singer that I wish she had released more songs in the' 70s!!! P.S. Her 1976-1977 singles on Good Earth belong in every Beatles/Mary Hopkin collection! Great stuff!! Lovely video overall...

Nice to see your collection and your favourite songs John. I only have the Goodbye and Those were the days 7" singles and the Postcard CD. My favourite song is Voyage of the moon. 😊

Thanks John. I'm just about old enough to remember Mary on Opportunity Knocks. I think "Those were the days" was a Russian folk tune - my elder sister bought it and played it to death! Dana won the 1970 Eurovision song contest for Ireland with "All Kinds of Everything". I think "Knock! Knock who's there" was catchier. She seemed to drift out of the music scene. I recall her advertising margarine on TV a few years later

Thanks John, I have a copy of the Those Were The Days CD you showed, which is excellent. I also have one of her more recent albums which are sold via her website. This is very much inline with what Mary wants to record & is not aimed at the commercial market.

In the UK, “Postcard” was released in fold down mono. “Those Were The Days” was released in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. “Lontano Dagli Occhi” is Italian and means “out of sight”. “Que Sera Sera” was a single in a few countries including the US where it hit #77. IIRC, Ringo plays drums on that song. There are photos which are supposedly from the session.

She’s a legend!

I LOVE that Oasis album. It’s really fabulous!

🎉Great rundown of Mary's work. I heard Paul heard those were the days in a club he used to go to. The resident band there used to belt out this fantastic old folk tune. In the autobiography of Paul which Paul contributed to he goes into fair amount of Detail about producing postcard. I don't think Paul played on it. Was there a thing going on between Mary and Paul? She definitely ticked his boxes. Knock knock is a fantastic song, it's a song where I think the verse melody is better than the chorus. In any other year knock knock would have caned it, but look at the opposition in 1970. All kinds of everything us superb, my all time favourite eurovision, and beautifully song by Dana. Wales versus Ireland that year. Mary is also dead pretty as well.

@RAFchurchlawford4469

5 ай бұрын

"In any other year knock knock would have caned it, but look at the opposition in 1970. All kinds of everything us superb, my all time favourite eurovision, and beautifully song by Dana" 👍

nice to see an appreciation of mary hopkin - i like all her albums especially the 2 on apple and the oasis album. i seem to remember that the b side of temma harbour is an italian song, not welsh. thanks

Informative video, John. I have a soft spot for "Temma Harbour".

Great, informative tribute John. Cheers 😎

there are quite a few English artists that would’ve been a great addition to the Apple label. I’m thinking of Nick Drake for one.

aftr 2000s she has ralisen many of her unrealised songs of the 70s wich is fantastic

Love Peter Sellern and the Oasis collaboration. Shame the album is so hard to buy at a reasonable price these days

TH0SE WERE THE DAYS❤

Cool appreciation of the amazing Mary Hopkin 💖 ("Those Were The Days" didn't make your Top 12? lol) 👍🎶

ps you could have also mentioned the 1972 live at the festival hall - released many years after the event - and the ongoing albums she records with son and daughter on their own label - most songs of which she writes herself. the 2 liz thorson songs on earth song album are also exquisite.

@MaryHopkinMusic

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for pointing this out, @davidholiday4494!

@davidholiday4494

5 ай бұрын

you are extremely welcome...i should have mentioned the Spirit album as well which I like very much - but i forgot in the moment

Hi John, I've got a suggestion for a future video, how about favourite Side 2 openers for albums?

Nice that you paid tribute to Mary Hopkin Can’t agree with your top 12 where is Kew Gardens and silver birch and weeping willow? I thought that Paul killed her on her debut album with the oldies. Lontano dagli occhi is Italian not Welsh. Released as a single Apple 7 in Italy not in Uk

sad that it never been written a book on maary never seen one

Hey John ..I have the Apple greatest Hits CD you showed ( cost me £18 at the time ...ouch ) .. It's nice , but ' knock knock ' is in mono , which disappointed me greatly . I have since sourced an enhanced version of Goodbye ..which is much better than the CD and also a stereo version of ' Knock knock ' ( at last ) ... Always liked Mary ...but I think she's a full on leftist these days ...I'd appreciate it if you could enlighten me about that ...( and yes , Knock knock may have won Eurovision , but you have to admit ' All kinds of everything ' deserved it ..a true Euro classic ( if there is such a thing ) ...and it has stood the test of time too ...whereas few remember Knock knock .

@juliatutor8099

5 ай бұрын

She was always a liberal...Most artists are....I certainly am...Too bad about you....

@RAFchurchlawford4469

5 ай бұрын

"Knock knock may have won Eurovision , but you have to admit ' All kinds of everything ' deserved it ..a true Euro classic ( if there is such a thing ) ...and it has stood the test of time too ...whereas few remember Knock knock ." 👍

No personality, no stage presence, whiney singing.....Ill stick with Boney M guvna 😂

Mary Hopkin just wasn’t that talented. Scores of young girls in Birmingham alone could have sang as well.