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Born in New
York,
he was a singer-songwriter as well as being an architect and author. He studied architecture and was an
adjunct professor at Columbia University
and published three books on the subject. He wrote the play One's a Crowd in 1949 followed
by Amata. In the early 1960s he and his wife
were the duo Geno and Francesca and they regularly played the Greenwich
folk clubs and released an album in 1962. The album included "Those Were
The Days" which he had adapted from a Russian/Ukranian
folk melody known as "Dorogoj Dlinnoyu". This was later to
become a No. 1 for Mary Hopkin which she recorded
in 5 other languages, including Hebrew, and sold eight million copies
worldwide. He died in New York on 7th June 2004 aged 95.
Chet Atkins recordings
Those Were the Days (Gene Raskin)
Source:
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www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/bio/0,,483041,00.html#bio
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