Mary Hopkin – Australian Vinyl

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Mary Hopkin – Australian Vinyl

by beatlesblogger

October 29, 2012

Last weekend I was visiting a cool Sydney second-hand record store called Revolve Records and Relics. As you can see if you click here, its a full-on searching experience when you walk inside...I was actually there on the hunt for an Australian pressing of the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band LP to send to Andrey, a Russian collector and reader of this blog.

Anyway, I didn't turn one up for him (yet), but I did find an LP for myself that I've been searching for now for about ten years or so. It's an original Australian pressing on Apple Records of the Mary Hopkin compilation "The Best of Mary Hopkin":

You might know this record as "Those Were the Days". In the UK and the USA that's what it was called when released back in 1972. It has the same Apple Records catalogue number here as the UK issue - SAPCOR 23 (in the US this was SW3395) - and the same 11 tracks and running order:

There's a bit of a backstory for me regarding this LP. I did spy a copy of it once at a garage sale about 10-15 years ago. I was just about to reach for it when another person at the garage sale spotted it first and grabbed it. It must genuinely be one of the Apple rarities as I've never seen another copy of it since!

So, thanks to Andrey, I have one more item ticked off in the quest to own every Apple LP on vinyl.