Il Folklorista recorded "Those Were the Days"; Il Folklorista is a project by Australian country artist Nia Robertson recorded the song on her album There are some other versions though.

The non-English sets of lyrics were also recorded by "Those Were the Days" was catalogue number APPLE 2 (the APPLE 1 number had been given to an unreleased version of "Hopkin's version was released on the back of her success on the television talent show At the peak of the song's success, a New York company used the melody in a commercial for Rokeach In the mid-1970s, after Hopkin's contract with Apple ended, "Those Were the Days" and "Goodbye" were re-recorded with producer + In 1931 Enrique Rodríguez and his tango orchestra recorded a version in Buenos Aires with lyrics in Spanish, available in Youtube. "Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" [ru] ("Дорогой длинною", literally "By the long road"), composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky. In the early 1960s Raskin, with his wife Francesca, played folk music around Hopkin's recording was produced by Paul McCartney with an arrangement by McCartney also recorded Hopkin singing "Those Were The Days" in other languages for release in their respective countries: I really love this Russian song. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism.