Damn! Blatant theft. No credit given to the original writer and playing it off as your own work is the ultimate dick head move . Jimmy Page is guilty of this as well with Black Mountain Side being a Bert Jansch rip off and Dazed and Confused being a Jake Holmes rip off. He credited himself with both songs on the album and claimed he never heard the original Dazed and Confused!
Swinging Britiain had it all in the 1960's and then decades of increasingly toxic feminism, PC, mass immigration from very hostile countries, and then Marxist "woke" ideologues destroyed everything worthwhile about our Western Civilization.
I have played the Ramirez GH guitar for many years in my life. It was undoubtedly a beautiful sounding guitar & sounding all the more beautiful with Mary's voice.❤❤❤
fun fact. hewie green was the host for many years until he spoke out against what he disagreed with i.e the politics of the day and he was cancelled so much so its hard to find any shows from the perv bbc
So this is how she got discovered by Apple and Paul McCartney.So talented but without Pauls direction and song writing she would have never reached the success she had in 1969.
Well....you're right...Paul's input kicked off her big success, but she was actually "discovered" by Twiggy, (rather than Paul), who saw her on this UK TV program previously & phoned McCartney who eventually signed her to Apple. Mind you, she'd already released some folk music records in her native Wales anyway, so technically, someone else really "discovered" her. Her first & easily biggest hit was "Those Were The Days" (UK #1) which McCartney didn't write but did produce. It was/is an old Russian folk song with English lyrics. Obviously, with Paul helping steer her career at first, it helped enormously, but he only ever wrote one song for her ("Goodbye" UK #2), which he also produced, but going beyond 1969, without Paul's writing or production, she then had 3 other top 20 hits in quick succession before the end of 1970 like "Knock Knock Who's There" (UK #2), "Temma Harbour" (UK #6), & "Think About Your Children" (UK #19)....none of which were written or even produced by Paul....but no doubt being associated with The Beatles & Apple helped. Paul helped her again in August 1969, producing IMO an excellent cover version of an old hit for Doris Day ("Que Sera Sera") which sounded great, even had Ringo on drums with & McCartney on everything else..maybe Mary on an acoustic guitar too....with but was not a big hit really, getting to No.77 in the US & only hitting the top 20 worldwide in one country, Japan (Apple didn't even release it in the UK), so having Paul help out didn't always guarantee top 20 success, just ask John Christie, The Applejacks, Tommy Quickly, The Fourmost, P.J.Proby or Peggy Lee (although you can't ask her, she's passed on)....Here's a Russian version of how it began ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YIvN2tlUSOU.html
This is beautiful. You should hear her sing it in Welsh - it's absolutely spellbinding. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jCZvkRElTkc.html
Gifted, right on pitch too...often Judy Collins goes sharp, and that bothered the hell out of my ears...not Mary Hopkin, beautiful, on pitch voice with great vibrato.
The single with the songs Turn, turn, turn and Those were the days (the latter with lyrics in Spanish) was the first we bought in my house. I was 6 years old. Adorable woman.
Yeah...& at least half of the $$$millions earned in the last 54 years, as the Henry Thomas original was NOT in the public domain in 1968...it was, in fact, still covered by US copyright law protection until 1978....but....as Henry Thomas was dead....no action was taken....
@detunedplus6378 You can't have listened all the way through because the mono mix also has a full length ending whereas the stereo mix fades earlier, making the mono mix 5-10 secs longer...
@detunedplus6378 NO!!!! Listen to both the stereo & this totally different MONO mix....again...I suspect you haven't heard the stereo mix for many years to think that🤔...or never😂
NO!!! It is an OBVIOUSLY totally different mix, can you not hear the effect put on the lead instrument?.....Listen to the stereo mix!..if you folded that down it would sound totally different....
@@LeonThe4th i just assumed since you can hear a similar effect on the stereo mix. it's just not very noticeable due to hard panning. i did just fold it down myself and yeah the effect is just more extreme on this mix.
Thank You for reminding me of this glorious singer I so enjoyed listening to back when. It saddens me we no longer hear this beautiful music. I’m not far off from her current age & reminds me how quickly time has passed & of my own Immortality.
1. Mary had an accident as a child which caused her teeth to grow unevenly, please also remember that dentistry in the UK back in the 50's was in its infancy. 2. Mary had just turned 18 when these particular shows were recorded, so she had only been playing guitar for approximately 3-4 years. IMO she was and is amazing.
I had never heard of this band until today, I went to McDonalds and some old guy liked my Dio sweatshirt. We had a brief conversation, he talked about them and had never heard of the band either until recently from pandora recommendations. He said he really liked punk music, if only I could find him again and tell him they guy who made Jessie's Girl was apart of this. I don't think he would believe me.
Ah a time of integrity when artist`s played and sang to an audience because it was a pleasure to invite them into their hearts and share themselves but were only paid as a reward for doing so ,so sad these days as it seems to be the other way around with so many so in love with themselves ,so vulgar and more concerned with fame and wealth!.
I had the blessed joy to see Pete Seeger perform his masterpiece live. He introduced Turn, Turn, Turn by explaining his record producers requested he quit writing so many protest songs. Turn, Turn, Turn was his response to his producers demand. Glorious.
