THOSE WERE THE DAYS… (Reflections by Klaus Döring)
During my time as radio host in different radio stations in the Philippines, this song has been requested innumerable times. “Those Were the Days” is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song “Дорогой длинною” (literally “By the long road”), composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with…