Post Card
Mary Hopkin was Apple’s first success story. Her debut single, produced by Paul McCartney “Those Were The Days” rocketed her to international stardom all at the tender age of eighteen. Following the huge success of the single, Paul and Mary set about putting together her first album which was released in February, 1969 just six months after the single. Post Card was a mixture of contemporary folk music (including three Donovan songs), with some older ‘standards’. In the US, “Those Were The Days” was added as track one of the original release and for the CD in 1991, this was retained. We are also retaining it on this 2010 edition along with “Turn Turn Turn” (To Everything There Is A Season)”. In addition we are also including both sides of Mary’s second single “Goodbye” and “Sparrow”. To complete the CD we included a track that could have been her third single had history not dictated otherwise. “Fields Of St. Etienne” was scheduled as Apple 16 but the release was cancelled and it is therefore being released here for the first time. The song was later re-recorded with a different arrangement and eventually released in some countries coupled with “Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be)”.
