HOOTENANNY SINGERS-BASTA
The Hootenanny Singers - Bästa Original lp release Late 1967 Released on Swedish CD 1991
The Hootenanny Singers were a
successful Swedish folk group that ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus fronted
during the 1960's and early 1970's.
BASTA was the Hootz first Best of complimation
album . The Lp version of BASTA was originally released in Sweden
by Polar Records in 1967. Basta was also reissued on Lp in the
1970s' with
a different more modern portrait of the group.
The Cd reissue of BASTA combines
the contents
of the original BASTA lp with the contents of second Hootz Best
of collection. The second collection was called DU BASTE MED HOOTENANNY
SINGERS & Björn ULVAEUS and was released in 1969. The
BASTA CD functions pretty effectively as the best introduction
to the music of the Hootenanny Singers. The main disadvantage
of this CD is
that it only covers the Hootenanny's work from 1964-1969.
The Hootenanny's began in 1963
in Vastervik,
Sweden . Future ABBA manager Stig Anderson
and his partner Bengt Bernhag signed the
group then known as the West Bay Singers
to their nascent Polar label.
The music on the BASTA sounds
a little like the the Kingston Trio, or The Four Freshman but
much of the Hootz repertoire featured music written by Swedish
folk songwriters like Evert Taube, Dan Andersson
or Carl Bellmann. Björn also wrote / cowrote songs for the
group ,and on occasion American pop, folk and country songs were
covered.
The original BASTA lp (the first
half of the CD) covers 1964-1967. It starts with the Hootz
first hit "Jag Vantar Vd Min Mila" and ends
with two of Björn's English language compositions
for the band, "No Time" and "Baby Those Are
The Rules" . Also included on the first half of the CD are
"Gabrille (Swedish version), 'Marianne" and "Blomman"
.
The second half of the BASTA CD
features The Hootenanny's second hit collection from 1969 . It
features songs by both the
Hootenanny Singers and songs from Björn 's brief solo career.
Björn's short solo career
occurred whilst he was still a Hootenanny, and only ended because
he joined up with Benny to become a duo (Björn and Benny)
.Björn released four singles four singles (but no lp) in
1968/69 as a solo artist, These singles are his only solo records
to date. Three of the Björn's solo A-sides are compiled on
this CD. Björn's covers of" Harper Valley PTA"
(rewritten to become "Froken Frederickson' )
and the Bobby Goldsboro's hit "Honey" called here "Raring'
were big Swedish hits. The best
song from the second hit collection is a original composition
by Björn done for the Hootz as a single that is called "Mrs
O'Grady" it features great rythems and intriguing English
lyrics. The use of staccato strings on "Mrs O'Grady"
was probably inspired by The Beatles "Eleanor Rigby".
BASTA is one of a mumber of Hootenanny compilation CD's available. Another CD ,called the Hootenanny's-PA SVENSKA features some of the best songs that the Hootz did in Swedish. PA SVENSKA has the advantage of including songs from the Hootz early 1970's work but it doesn't include the Hootz's English language hits. In late 2000, a new compilation of the Hootz work in Swedish was released.
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Exciting track listing for the CD (with source album) -Songs from BASTA LP-- --Songs from DU BASTE MED
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