HISTORY OF POP AND ROCK MUSIC - part 410 torrent

PART 410



MARY HOPKIN - Turn Turn Turn (1968)
MARY HOPKIN - Goodbye (1969)
MARY HOPKIN - Those Were The Days (1968) (third version)




"Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)", often abbreviated to "Turn! Turn! Turn!", is a song adapted entirely from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible and put to music by Pete Seeger in 1959. Seeger waited until 1962 to record his own version of it, releasing the song on his "The Bitter and the Sweet" album on Columbia Records. The song became an international hit in late 1965 when it was covered by the American folk rock band The Byrds, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #26 on the UK Singles Chart.Mary Hopkin's recording of the song was released on the B-side of her "Those Were The Days" single in 1968. She later did a Welsh language version, titled "Tro, Tro, Tro".
"Goodbye" is a song written by Paul McCartney and performed by Mary Hopkin. It was released on 28 March 1969, and it reached No. 2 in the UK singles chart, prevented from reaching the top position by the Beatles' single "Get Back". In the U.S., the song reached No. 13 on the singles chart. In the Netherlands the single peaked at No. 1.