Helmut Lotti - "Those Were The Days"

Helmut Lotti - "Dorogoj Dlinnoju".
It may come as a surprise to many that this is an original Russian song. Because who didn't rock along on "Those Were The Days"? Even Paul McCartney knows the song like this. Gene Raskin translated it in 1963 and scored a first little hit. But in 1968 the Beatle-in-charge passes this same English version on to singer Mary Hopkin who makes it into a huge success.