Original upload date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 12:25:20 GMT
"A playwright and singer who performed with his wife as "Gene & Francesca", Gene Raskin had originally given "Those Were the Days" to the Limeliters, an American trio who popularised it during the fol
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k boom of the early Sixties along with another of his compositions, "That's Just the Way it Goes". Paul McCartney heard Gene & Francesca play "Those Were the Days" in a London club and recalled the song when picking material for his protegee Mary Hopkin, who had triumphed on ITV's Opportunity Knocks show." (source: Pierre Perroni, The Independent)
Original Russian title: DOROGOI DLINNOYU (Boris Fomin/Konstantin Podnevsky).
