Mary Hopkin discography

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Mary Hopkin discography
Studio albums10
Live albums1
Compilation albums7
EPs4
Singles25
Other albums2

This is the discography of Welsh folk singer-songwriter Mary Hopkin.

Albums[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
CAN
[2]
US
[3]
Post Card 3 24 28
Earth Song/Ocean Song
  • Released: 1 October 1971
  • Label: Apple
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
Spirit
  • Released: 12 December 1989
  • Label: Trax Music
  • Formats: CD, LP
Valentine
  • Released: 3 May 2007
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD
  • Archival recordings from 1972 to 1980
Recollections
  • Released: 1 December 2008
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD
  • Archival recordings from 1970 to 1986
Now and Then
  • Released: 25 May 2009
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
  • Archival recordings from 1970 to 1988
You Look Familiar
  • Released: 25 October 2010
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
  • With Morgan Visconti
Painting by Numbers
  • Released: 27 January 2014
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Another Road
  • Released: 31 August 2020
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
A Christmas Chorale
  • Released: 1 December 2020
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Pieces
  • Released: 1 February 2022
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Two Hearts (with Jessica Lee Morgan)
  • Released: 3 May 2023
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums[edit]

Title Album details
Live at the Royal Festival Hall 1972
  • Released: September 2005
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD

Compilation albums[edit]

Title Album details
Pleserau Serch (Plaisir d'amour)
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: Odeon
  • Formats: LP
  • Japan-only release
The Best of Mary Hopkin
  • Released: 31 March 1972
  • Label: Apple
  • Formats: LP, MC
  • Germany and Netherlands-only release
Those Were the Days
  • Released: 25 September 1972
  • Label: Apple
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
The Welsh World of Mary Hopkin
  • Released: 24 May 1979
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
Y Caneuon Cynnar – The Early Years
  • Released: December 1996
  • Label: Sain
  • Formats: CD, MC
The Mary Hopkin Collection
  • Released: 2 May 2005
  • Label: Apple
  • Formats: 3xCD
  • Japan-only limited box set release
A Portrait of Mary
  • Released: 29 August 2008
  • Label: ZYX Music/ABC Entertainment
  • Formats: CD
  • Germany-only release

Other albums[edit]

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[4]
Oasis
  • Released: 20 April 1984
  • Label: WEA
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
  • As part of the short-lived group Oasis
23
Sundance
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

EPs[edit]

Title Album details
Llais Swynol Mary Hopkin
  • Released: 3 May 1968
  • Label: Cambrian
  • Formats: 7"
Mary ac Edward
  • Released: June 1968
  • Label: Cambrian
  • Formats: 7"
  • With Edward M. Jones
Christmas Songs
  • Released: 1 December 2008
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Those Were the Days
  • Released: 31 August 2018
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD

Singles[edit]

Name Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[1]
AUS
[5]
CAN
[6]
JAP
[7]
IRE
[8]
NL
[9][10]
NZ
[11]
SA
[12][13]
US
[14][15]
US AC
[16]
"Those Were the Days" 1968 1 2 1 1 1 1 3 2 2 1 Non-album single[A]
"Aderyn Llwyd" 1969 Non-album singles
"Lontano dagli occhi"
"Prince en Avignon" (France-only release) Post Card
"Goodbye" 2 2 15 13 1 1 2 2 13 6 Non-album singles
"Temma Harbour" 1970 6 6 42 3 12 3 39 4
"Knock, Knock Who's There?" 2 5 38 2 3 1 92 7
"Pleserau Serch (Plaisir d'amour)"
"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" 30 47 18 10 77 11
"Think About Your Children" 19 51 82 87 27
"Let My Name Be Sorrow" 1971 46
"Water, Paper & Clay" 94 113 Earth Song/Ocean Song
"Summertime, Summertime" (as part of Hobbyhorse) 1972 5 Non-album singles
"Mary Had a Baby"
"If You Love Me (I Won't Care)" 1976 32
"Wrap Me in Your Arms" 1977
"Beyond the Fields We Know" (as the Elfland Ensemble featuring Mary Hopkin) The King of Elfland's Daughter
"What's Love" (as part of Sundance) 1981 10 Non-album singles[B]
"Walk Right In" (as part of Sundance) 1982
"Hold Me" (as part of Oasis) 1984 Oasis
"I Wonder Why" (as part of Oasis)
"Ave Maria" 1989 Spirit
"No More War" (as Freedom Found)[17] 1990 Non-album singles
"Snowed Under" 2006
"Iesu Faban" 2014
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Contributions[edit]

Year Title Artist Contribution
1969 Where's Jack Elmer Bernstein Lead vocals on "Where's Jack" and "Last Moments"
1972 Kidnapped Roy Budd Lead vocals on "For All My Days"
Peace Will Come Tom Paxton Backing vocals on "Peace Will Come", "Out Behind the Gypsy's" and "What a Friend You Are"
Not Till Tomorrow Ralph McTell Backing vocals on "Zimmerman Blues"
1973 Moonshine Bert Jansch Lead vocals on "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
New Songs for Old Friends Tom Paxton Backing vocals on "Silent Night" and "When Princes Meet"
Worlds Apart Together The Sarstedt Brothers Backing vocals on "Glory, Glory"
1975 Dancing on a Cold Wind Carmen Backing vocals
1977 Low David Bowie Backing vocals on "Sound and Vision"
The King of Elfland's Daughter Bob Johnson and Pete Knight Lead vocals on "Lizazel" and "Beyond the Fields We Know"
Bad Reputation Thin Lizzy Backing vocals on "Dear Lord"
Inventory Tony Visconti Backing vocals
1979 Ghostown The Radiators Backing vocals on "Walking Home Alone Again"
1981 Cover Plus Hazel O'Connor Additional backing vocals
1983 I paladini – Storia d'armi e d'amori Martin Cooper and David Hughes Vocals on "Main Theme"
Stages Elaine Page Backing vocals on "Running Back for More", "Good Morning Starshine", "What I Did for Love" and "One Night Only"
1986 Christmas Backing vocals on 11 songs
1987 Cosmic Dancer – The Greatest Songs T.Rex/Marc Bolan Hopkin sang backing vocals on a demo version of "Truck On (Tyke)", which was first released on this Germany-only compilation
1988 Norwegian Wood R.A.M. Pietsch Lead vocals on "Here, There and Everywhere" and "For No One"[17]
The Collector – A Marc Cerrone Opéra Cerrone Lead vocals on "Evolution" and "The Circle"[17]
Under Milk Wood Various Vocals
1992 Back to Bach Julian Colbeck Hopkin co-wrote and sang "Old Faces at Heaven's Gate"
1994 The Bridge Dave Cousins and Brian Willoughby Backing vocals on "Further Down the Road", "Morning Glory", "Cry No More" and "Do You Remember?"
Blade Runner Vangelis Vocals on "Rachael's Song"
1996 Dead Cities The Future Sound of London "My Kingdom" samples Hopkins' vocals on Rachael's Song"
1998 Pages of Life Jon and Vangelis Backing vocals on "Change We Must" (included on the US and Japan re-release of 1991 album)
Wide Prairie Linda McCartney Backing vocals on "Love's Full Glory" (recorded in 1980)[18]
2000 The Great Brain Robbery The Crocketts Additional vocals on "Chicken vs. Macho"
2002 Live 2002 Robin Williams Hopkin re-recorded "Those Were the Days" for use in Williams' "The Grim Rapper"
2003 Blue Angel Strawbs Vocals on 7 songs
2005 Those Were the Days Dolly Parton Guest vocals on "Those Were the Days"
2008 Crystal Tips and Mighty Mice The Photos Backing vocals on "Time of My Life" (album originally withdrawn from release in 1981)
2009 Blodeugerdd: Song of the Flowers – An Anthology of Welsh Music and Song Various Hopkins contributed an a cappella version of "Aderyn Pur"[17]
2010 I Am Not Jessica Lee Morgan Co-wrote and sang on "Here It All Comes Again"
2018 Re:Boot Wrote and sang on a reworking of "Here It All Comes Again"
2020 Forthright Backing vocals on "Packing Up" and "The Less Said the Better" (and also co-wrote the latter)

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Those Were the Days" was included on the North American release of Post Card.
  2. ^ Included on the 2002 album Sundance.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "MARY HOPKIN | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  2. ^ "RPM Top 50 Albums - May 26, 1969" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Mary Hopkin". Billboard. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  4. ^ "OASIS (80'S) | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  5. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 141. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  6. ^ Peak positions for Mary Hopkins' singles on the Canadian RPM 100:
  7. ^ Okamoto, Satoshi (2011). Single Chart Book: Complete Edition 1968–2010 (in Japanese). Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. ISBN 978-4-87131-088-8.
  8. ^ "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  9. ^ "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  10. ^ "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  11. ^ "flavour of new zealand". flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  12. ^ "South African Rock Lists Website - SA Charts 1969 - 1989 Acts (H)". www.rock.co.za. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  13. ^ "South African Rock Lists Website - SA Charts 1969 - 1989 Acts (S)". www.rock.co.za. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  14. ^ "Mary Hopkin". Billboard. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  15. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1982). Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Hot 100 1959–1981. Record Research. p. 79. ISBN 9780898200478.
  16. ^ "Mary Hopkin". Billboard. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  17. ^ a b c d "The Mary Hopkin Friendly Society". www.maryhopkin.com. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  18. ^ "News". www.hopkin.is.nl. Retrieved 22 September 2021.

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