Question: who sang those were the days my friends
Answer: `` Those Were the Days '' Single by Mary Hopkin B - side `` Turn ! Turn ! Turn ! '' Released 26 August 1968 ( US ) 30 August 1968 ( UK ) Format 7 '' single Recorded mid-July 1968 Genre Folk Length 5 : 05 Label Apple Songwriter ( s ) Boris Fomin Gene Raskin Producer ( s ) Paul McCartney Mary Hopkin singles chronology `` Those Were the Days '' ( 1968 ) `` Goodbye '' ( 1969 ) `` Those Were the Days '' ( 1968 ) `` Goodbye '' ( 1969 )