This is the discography of Welsh folk singer-songwriter Mary Hopkin.
| Mary Hopkin discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 10 |
| EPs | 4 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 7 |
| Singles | 25 |
| Other albums | 2 |
Albums
editStudio albums
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
CAN [2] |
US [3] | ||
| Post Card | 3 | 24 | 28 | |
| Earth Song/Ocean Song |
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— | — | 204[4] |
| Spirit |
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— | — | — |
| Valentine |
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| Recollections |
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| Now and Then |
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| You Look Familiar |
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| Painting by Numbers |
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| Another Road |
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| A Christmas Chorale |
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| Pieces |
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| Two Hearts (with Jessica Lee Morgan) |
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| "—" 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 |
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Compilation albums
edit| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Pleserau Serch (Plaisir d'amour) |
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| The Best of Mary Hopkin |
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| Those Were the Days |
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| The Welsh World of Mary Hopkin |
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| Y Caneuon Cynnar – The Early Years |
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| The Mary Hopkin Collection |
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| A Portrait of Mary |
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Other albums
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| UK [5] | ||
| Oasis | 23 | |
| Sundance |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||
EPs
edit| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Llais Swynol Mary Hopkin |
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| Mary ac Edward |
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| Christmas Songs |
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| Those Were the Days |
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Singles
edit| Name | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [6] |
CAN [7] |
JPN [8] |
IRE [9] |
NL [10][11] |
NZ [12] |
SA [13][14] |
US [15][16] |
US AC [17] | |||
| "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 | 11 | ||
| "Pleserau Serch (Plaisir d'amour)" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" | — | 30 | 47 | 18 | — | — | 10 | — | 77 | 7 | ||
| "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 Hobby Horse) | 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)[18] | 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"[18] |
| The Collector – A Marc Cerrone Opéra | Cerrone | Lead vocals on "Evolution" and "The Circle"[18] | |
| 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)[19] | |
| 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"[18] |
| 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
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "MARY HOPKIN | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "RPM Top 50 Albums - May 26, 1969" (PDF).
- ^ "Mary Hopkin". Billboard. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "Bubbling Under the Top LP's" (PDF). Billboard. 18 December 1971. p. 49. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "OASIS (80'S) | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 141. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ Peak positions for Mary Hopkins' singles on the Canadian RPM 100:
- "Those Were the Days": "The RPM 100". RPM. Vol. 10, no. 9. 28 October 1969. Retrieved 22 September 2021 – via Library and Archives Canada.
- "Goodbye": "RPM 100". RPM. Vol. 11, no. 13. 26 May 1969. Retrieved 22 September 2021 – via Library and Archives Canada.
- "Temma Harbour": "RPM 100". RPM. Vol. 13, no. 9. 18 April 1970. Retrieved 22 September 2021 – via Library and Archives Canada.
- "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)": "RPM 100". RPM. Vol. 13, no. 24. 1 August 1970. Retrieved 22 September 2021 – via Library and Archives Canada.
- "Think About Your Children": "RPM 100". RPM. Vol. 14, no. 17. 12 December 1970. Retrieved 22 September 2021 – via Library and Archives Canada.
- ^ Okamoto, Satoshi (2011). Single Chart Book: Complete Edition 1968–2010 (in Japanese). Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. ISBN 978-4-87131-088-8.
- ^ "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "flavour of new zealand". flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "South African Rock Lists Website - SA Charts 1969 - 1989 Acts (H)". www.rock.co.za. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "South African Rock Lists Website - SA Charts 1969 - 1989 Acts (S)". www.rock.co.za. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "Mary Hopkin". Billboard. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1982). Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Hot 100 1959–1981. Record Research. p. 79. ISBN 9780898200478.
- ^ "Mary Hopkin". Billboard. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d "The Mary Hopkin Friendly Society". www.maryhopkin.com. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "News". www.hopkin.is.nl. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
External links
edit- Mary Hopkin discography at Discogs