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2 unusual facts about Those Were the Days!


George Helgesen Fitch

The Siwash stories were the basis for the movie Those Were the Days! (1940) starring William Holden as Simmons, which was filmed on location at and around Knox College.

Those Were the Days

Those Were the Days – The Best Of Leningrad Cowboys, a compilation album released by the Leningrad Cowboys


Francisco Macías Nguema

Soldiers dressed up in Santa Claus costumes executed them by shooting at the football stadium in Malabo, while amplifiers were playing Mary Hopkin's "Those Were the Days".

Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976

Prior to the contest, there was controversy when some other national delegations laid accusations that "The Party's Over" plagiarised the 1968 Mary Hopkin hit "Those Were the Days".

Sanjalice

During the same year, they released their third EP, with songs "Marijana" (composed by Vlaho Paljetak), "To su bili dani" ("Those Were the Days", a cover of Mary Hopkin song "Those Were the Days"), "Ta mala ledi" ("That Little Lady"), "Misli ponekad na mene" ("Think of Me Sometimes"), through Beograd Disk.


see also

Mary Hopkins

Mary Hopkin (born 1950), Welsh folk singer (sang "Those Were the Days")

Those Were the Days – The Best Of Leningrad Cowboys

Those Were the Days – The Best Of Leningrad Cowboys is a two-disc greatest hits album packaged in a DVD style case in a box set with a deck of playing cards.