Gene Raskin

Gene Raskin

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American singer/songwriter Gene Raskin is best known for transforming a traditional Russian folk melody into "Those Were the Days," an international blockbuster for Welsh vocalist Mary Hopkin in 1968. Born in New York City in 1909, Raskin studied architecture at Columbia University, serving as an adjunct professor there between 1936 and 1976. In 1949 he wrote a play, One's a Crowd, followed two years later by Amata; in 1954, he also published Architecturally Speaking, the first of three books on the subject. During the early '60s Raskin and his wife played Greenwich Village folk clubs under...