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Thread #97435 Message #1917465
Posted By: Bernard
23-Dec-06 - 10:54 AM
Thread Name: Folk Songs That Hit the Charts as Pop Songs
Subject: RE: Folk Songs That Hit the Charts as Pop Songs
'Those Were The Days'...
Recorded by Mary Hopkin, and 'written by' Paul McCartney...
Except he bought it from someone who had based the song on a Russian folk song 'The Long Road', if I recall correctly.
Slightly off topic... 'A Groovy Kind Of Love' by the Mindbenders was really a sonatina by Clementi...