Mary Hopkin - Wrap Me in Your Arms - Non-Album Tracks (1974-1988)

In my opinion, Mary Hopkin put out two solid albums, "Postcard" in 1969 and "Earth Song, Ocean Song" in 1971. But other than those, her recorded output has been hit or miss. So I've made four stray tracks albums of all her good songs other than the ones on those two albums. Here's the fourth and last one.

As I explained with previous posts, Hopkin became a big star when she was only 18 years old, with "Those Were the Days" being one of the biggest hits in the world in 1968. She apparently didn't like the pop star lifestyle, and pretty much quit around 1972, ceasing to perform concerts or appear much on TV or radio after that. She didn't realize any new albums all the way until 1989, and such new albums have been very low key affairs, generally home recordings done with little to no promotion. 

She did continue to record music off and on after her time as a star, though it seems to have been more like a hobby than a career. She did put out the occasional single, though none of them made the charts (there was that lack of promotion thing again). This collects what I consider her best songs from 1974 to 1988. In my opinion, this isn't as good as the music she did earlier, but there are some gems here and there, and most of this will be new to the ears of all but the most die-hard of her fans.

All the songs here are officially released. Eight of the 13 are A- and B-sides. Another three are from archival albums. The second to last song, "Rachel's Song," was a collaboration with Vangelis that made it onto the "Blade Runner" soundtrack in 1982.

If you're interested in her music after 1988, pretty much everything of note is on her new studio albums, so I don't see the need for more of these stray tracks collections. However, now that I've finished posting these, I plan on posting a couple of BBC sessions albums of songs she did during her pop star years.

This album is 40 minutes long.

01 Shamarack (Mary Hopkin)
02 Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth (Mary Hopkin)
03 If You Love Me (Mary Hopkin)
04 Tell Me Now (Mary Hopkin)
05 Beyond the Fields We Know (Mary Hopkin with the Elfland Ensemble)
06 Lirazel (Mary Hopkin with the Elfland Ensemble)
07 Another Day (Mary Hopkin)
08 Wrap Me in Your Arms (Mary Hopkin)
09 Just a Dreamer (Mary Hopkin)
10 What's Love (Mary Hopkin & Sundance)
11 A Song (Mary Hopkin & Sundance)
12 Rachel's Song (Mary Hopkin & Vangelis)
13 For No One - Here, There and Everywhere (R.A.M. Pietsch with Mary Hopkin)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15121829/MaryHop_1974-1988_WrapMeinYurArms_atse.zip.html

There are very few photos of Hopkin after about 1972, since she's kept such a low profile. This cover photo is a screenshot I took from a TV appearance she made in 1978.