This was a banger! On the dance floor for years and years... It never was more then a fun happy song to dance to, it wasn’t meant to be listened to back home in the sofa! It was all about party and fun!
YES!! "Sång till friheten" I'm really looking forward to that reaction!😁 Another big song from 1989 is Rob'n'Raz ft Leila K's "Got to get" I recommend you to watch the MV for that one to get that weird nostalgia☺
Great classic. Not all classics are pretentious, have deep lyrics or criticality acclaimed/well received by the music critics 😅 Some are just brilliant music composing/arrangements with gibberish lyrics meant to be pure fun candy pop. Looking forward to the next one that also is a classic - but on the other side of the classics spectra (a more serious but beautiful folk ballad). 🥰
Well, I try again relentlessly. Please listen to “Swing it, magistern” with Alice Babs. Yes, it’s a really old classic but timeless in many ways. It was a “fuck-you”-song back then, to all the grown-ups for trying to decide what is best for you. Was Alice our first rap-artist? However, I remember some time ago in a night club - a clever DJ played this tune in the middle of the night with the lights pumping. I assure you, everyone was up on the dance floor and I believe the majority of us knew the lyrics as well 😂
Thanks for getting this song stuck in my head AGAIN LOL. Only took me like 30 years to forget it. But sång till friheten is beautiful and is actually based on a cuban song written by Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez.
Coming from Falun and from the same time as when Troll peaked I love Jimmy Dean! Still, nothing less than a scandal that you got to react to Troll before "Oh Mama" by Lili & Sussie! (No hate lol) Lili & Sussie being much more than just a one hit wonder.
@@JonathanRollinssthlm305 That makes my heart very very happy! 🙏 "Oh mama" inspired many youngsters to learn to play the keyboard in the same way "Smoke on the water" inspired young wannabe guitarists. At least in Sweden.
Didn't like it back then, maybe I was to pretentious or something. Now I can see that theese girls were way better role models for other girls, than a lot of other artists. They were not dressed and not dancing in a sexual way, just to attract men. They're just having fun. 🙂
@@martinsv9183 Sounds like a strange reason to me to suggest ”It’s a secret” instead. 🙃 This channel is about Swedish classics and an American who haven’t heard any of the songs - so you really have to set aside your own personal preferences or feelings toward a song and suggest songs that are classics even if you personally have grown tired of them. J hasn’t heard these before and he should hear all the classics himself (and get tired of them himself) - even songs that are so frequently played through the years that some swedes might be tired hearing them 😊 With that said, I LOVE ”It’s a secret” but to me it falls short of qualifing in to being a swedish classic for most swedes.
I'm pretty sure this was the "Summer hit" of -89. Sweden seems to have a summer hit most years, and it tends to be like this song: A catchy upbeat tune that immediately gets stuck in your head, a funny video, and lyrics that won't EVER get the Nobel literature price, usually about how nice the weather is in summer, how good drinks taste on a hot summer day, or about a cute by or girl that just walked by. OK, I might be dead wrong. Maybe it peaked in the charts in November or so, but my educated guess is that it reached number one in June or July. Vamoz a la playa! (Oops, that was the summer hit of -83)
Seven girls singing only two harmonies. That's the winning concept here. The lower one being not much more than the chord roots, sometimes counterpoint, sometimes at a fifth interval from the lead. Totally awesome chorus topline. Also the lyrics seem weirdly up to date. When this came out and I was a kid, I thought it was about the actor James Dean literally. Strange to be neighbours with a dead guy. But now I hear it like a straight up metaphor. Instead of saying he looks like Brad Pitt (or whoever is hot now), or he's cute like Brad Pitt, you just say he's Brad Pitt. Tell us what you mean! He's Jimmy Dean. Per Gessle has nothing on that. 🙂 And I agree with others here, please react to Swing it Magistern by Alice Babs, and Gräsänkling Blues by Povel Ramel.
The song was written by the famous Swedish trio Norell/Oson/Bard They wrote music to many Swedish artist (some of them where: Tommy Nilsson, Agneta Fältskog, Ankie Bagger, Barbados, Jerry Williams, Lili & Susie, Secret service) Some of my favourite songs they wrote are: Tommy Nilsson - en dag Tone Norum & Tommy Nilsson - Allt som jag känner Agneta fältskog & Ola Håkansson - the way you are Jerry Williams - who's gonna follow you home
Troll = Ladies’ Wu Tang! 😆😆😆 De fick med sin version av ”Jag såg mamma kyssa tomten” (/I saw mommy kissing St Claus) på en storsäljande samlingsskiva med julmusik på 90-talet så man kan väl säga att Troll är en 1,5 hit wonder.
They was a Girl group before Spice girls. Ande they were natural group not handpicked but lokal friends. The song was produced by Ola Håkansson from Secret Service. The girls was from Falun in Dalarna Sweden.
För mig är den här låten ett syskon till Sommaren i City. En sommarplåga i början av nittiotalet, sjungen av tjejer och med en refräng som är omöjlig att få ur huvudet om du hört den en gång.
It should be noted that the girls were only about sixteen years old at the time this was released. The song is catchy as hell and has a "Girl's just wanna have fun" kind of vibe, though, of course, not nearly as good.
Jag var i precis rätt ålder (9-10) när den här kom för att gilla den här låten, trots att jag hade väldigt dålig koll på vem James Dean var. Nu 30+ år efteråt kan jag förstås konstatera att Dean var mycket bättre som skådespelare än vad den här var som låt. :) Men den fastnar onekligen i hjärnan!
The only reason it became number one was because the kids loved it could sing a long. And the melody stuck in your brain. I did not like the song at all back in the days. But still i hummed the melody and got so angry at myself😆
@@JonathanRollinssthlm305 James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955) and surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant (1956). After his death in a car crash on September 30, 1955, Dean became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his role in East of Eden. Upon receiving a second nomination for his role in Giant the following year, Dean became the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star of Golden Age Hollywood in AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list.
Hi! Jonathan. Troll - Jimmy Dean 👎 Another song you needs reacts to: Emil Bergström & Elin Nilsson - Blåblå är kärleken. 💙 Amazing cover version! 💯👍 Vicky Leandros sang the original version. (Lámour est bleu) Eurovision Song Contest (1967)
This was a banger! On the dance floor for years and years... It never was more then a fun happy song to dance to, it wasn’t meant to be listened to back home in the sofa! It was all about party and fun!
YES!! "Sång till friheten" I'm really looking forward to that reaction!😁
Another big song from 1989 is Rob'n'Raz ft Leila K's "Got to get" I recommend you to watch the MV for that one to get that weird nostalgia☺
Not a banger? How very dare you?! 😄That is my childhood right there. Bubblegum pop at its best.
Great classic. Not all classics are pretentious, have deep lyrics or criticality acclaimed/well received by the music critics 😅 Some are just brilliant music composing/arrangements with gibberish lyrics meant to be pure fun candy pop.
Looking forward to the next one that also is a classic - but on the other side of the classics spectra (a more serious but beautiful folk ballad). 🥰
Just så.
Ahhh, trodde du gjort "Sång till friheten"! Följt dig sedan start, svårt komma ihåg alla låter. Men wow, det här är en riktig svensk klassiker!
Well, I try again relentlessly. Please listen to “Swing it, magistern” with Alice Babs. Yes, it’s a really old classic but timeless in many ways. It was a “fuck-you”-song back then, to all the grown-ups for trying to decide what is best for you. Was Alice our first rap-artist? However, I remember some time ago in a night club - a clever DJ played this tune in the middle of the night with the lights pumping. I assure you, everyone was up on the dance floor and I believe the majority of us knew the lyrics as well 😂
I don't think that he even read TH-cam comments at this point to be honest.
@@rolfbjork9094 Ja, tyvärr tror jag nog du har helt rätt Rolf
Thanks for getting this song stuck in my head AGAIN LOL. Only took me like 30 years to forget it. But sång till friheten is beautiful and is actually based on a cuban song written by Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez.
Coming from Falun and from the same time as when Troll peaked I love Jimmy Dean! Still, nothing less than a scandal that you got to react to Troll before "Oh Mama" by Lili & Sussie! (No hate lol) Lili & Sussie being much more than just a one hit wonder.
As an apology for my inexcusable behavior, I will be adding "Oh Mama" to my list ;)
Ja Lili & Susie måste du reagera på Jonathan!
@@JonathanRollinssthlm305 That makes my heart very very happy! 🙏 "Oh mama" inspired many youngsters to learn to play the keyboard in the same way "Smoke on the water" inspired young wannabe guitarists. At least in Sweden.
Yes, Lili och Susie is so 80s in a good way! Loved their songs and Oh mama is forever connected to "högstadiedisco på fritidsgården" to me.
Didn't like it back then, maybe I was to pretentious or something. Now I can see that theese girls were way better role models for other girls, than a lot of other artists. They were not dressed and not dancing in a sexual way, just to attract men. They're just having fun. 🙂
Finally! This is such a massive banger!
6:01 This one is gonna be stuck in my head for a while. Thank you for the impression!
👍😊 , Mio min Mio ( Gemini ) .
Freestyle - Fantasi!😀
Anki Bagger - Where were you last night
I suggest "Trance Dance - You're Gonna Get It" and "Style - It's a Secret".
“Youre gonna get it” absolutely - but Styles most classic song is ofc ”Dover-Calais”! And he also should do “Fantasi” first by Freestyle.
@@bbeightynine Yeah its their biggest hit probably. Just I heard it some many times as a kid so its a bit worn out for me still :)
@@martinsv9183 Sounds like a strange reason to me to suggest ”It’s a secret” instead. 🙃 This channel is about Swedish classics and an American who haven’t heard any of the songs - so you really have to set aside your own personal preferences or feelings toward a song and suggest songs that are classics even if you personally have grown tired of them. J hasn’t heard these before and he should hear all the classics himself (and get tired of them himself) - even songs that are so frequently played through the years that some swedes might be tired hearing them 😊
With that said, I LOVE ”It’s a secret” but to me it falls short of qualifing in to being a swedish classic for most swedes.
@@bbeightynine I just suggested a good song. Not much more to it :) Someone else is probably going to suggest a more common one regardless.
I'm pretty sure this was the "Summer hit" of -89. Sweden seems to have a summer hit most years, and it tends to be like this song: A catchy upbeat tune that immediately gets stuck in your head, a funny video, and lyrics that won't EVER get the Nobel literature price, usually about how nice the weather is in summer, how good drinks taste on a hot summer day, or about a cute by or girl that just walked by.
OK, I might be dead wrong. Maybe it peaked in the charts in November or so, but my educated guess is that it reached number one in June or July. Vamoz a la playa! (Oops, that was the summer hit of -83)
Den var med på kassettbandet Ciao Ciao Italia, nån slags bensinmackssamling inför fotbolls-EM (eller VM?) i Italien 1990.
They were a one hit wonder, but the album had some other pretty catchy songs like this one, some of which I liked even better.
Seven girls singing only two harmonies. That's the winning concept here. The lower one being not much more than the chord roots, sometimes counterpoint, sometimes at a fifth interval from the lead. Totally awesome chorus topline.
Also the lyrics seem weirdly up to date. When this came out and I was a kid, I thought it was about the actor James Dean literally. Strange to be neighbours with a dead guy. But now I hear it like a straight up metaphor. Instead of saying he looks like Brad Pitt (or whoever is hot now), or he's cute like Brad Pitt, you just say he's Brad Pitt.
Tell us what you mean!
He's Jimmy Dean.
Per Gessle has nothing on that. 🙂
And I agree with others here, please react to Swing it Magistern by Alice Babs, and Gräsänkling Blues by Povel Ramel.
The song was written by the famous Swedish trio Norell/Oson/Bard
They wrote music to many Swedish artist (some of them where: Tommy Nilsson, Agneta Fältskog, Ankie Bagger, Barbados, Jerry Williams, Lili & Susie, Secret service)
Some of my favourite songs they wrote are:
Tommy Nilsson - en dag
Tone Norum & Tommy Nilsson - Allt som jag känner
Agneta fältskog & Ola Håkansson - the way you are
Jerry Williams - who's gonna follow you home
The Swedish Stock/Aitken/Waterman!
Troll = Ladies’ Wu Tang! 😆😆😆
De fick med sin version av ”Jag såg mamma kyssa tomten” (/I saw mommy kissing St Claus) på en storsäljande samlingsskiva med julmusik på 90-talet så man kan väl säga att Troll är en 1,5 hit wonder.
Well, this is a song I completely forgot existed. Liked it back then, and I understand why, but yeah... Very simplistic, hehe
Me and a colleuge used to sing this song at work a lot :) It's such a banger
Jimmy Dean refers to James Dean.
Thanks
I though that was obvious to all? 🙈
@@bbeightynine I don't think JR knows who James Dean was.
They was a Girl group before Spice girls. Ande they were natural group not handpicked but lokal friends. The song was produced by Ola Håkansson from Secret Service. The girls was from Falun in Dalarna Sweden.
I remember this song. It was on the radio when i was in Swedish high school. I think it is about the handsome american actor James Dean?🤩
Jimmy Dean was a Country Music singer. His main song was "Big Bad John" Thanks Also the initial owner of the jimmy Dean sausage I Think
De sjunger "a moviestar" så nej, de hänvisar inte till honom utan till James Dean.
If not miss take its Ola Håkansson from Secret Service that wrote specific for them. They where competed with this song in Melodifestivalen.
Lol, never heard the original until now! Only listened to Dia Psalma's parody spoof on it so many times. Really get why they made fun of this 😁
För mig är den här låten ett syskon till Sommaren i City. En sommarplåga i början av nittiotalet, sjungen av tjejer och med en refräng som är omöjlig att få ur huvudet om du hört den en gång.
Har längtat så länge efter att du skulle reagera på denna låt, men nu känner jag mig bara…tom 😅 Melodin är ju bättre än texten helt klart.
It should be noted that the girls were only about sixteen years old at the time this was released. The song is catchy as hell and has a "Girl's just wanna have fun" kind of vibe, though, of course, not nearly as good.
Aldrig hört.
Typiskt exempel på "tuggummipop". 😁😁😁
"Doing a Carlton" - haha, vilken diss. :D Minns att den "egyptiska" dansen 07:48 var populär att göra (på ett skämtsamt sätt).
I get that haha
Jag var i precis rätt ålder (9-10) när den här kom för att gilla den här låten, trots att jag hade väldigt dålig koll på vem James Dean var. Nu 30+ år efteråt kan jag förstås konstatera att Dean var mycket bättre som skådespelare än vad den här var som låt. :) Men den fastnar onekligen i hjärnan!
Carltondansen är väl iofs en version av den typiska 80talsdansen som vita körde, som Eddie Murphy demonstrerar i RAW?
The only reason it became number one was because the kids loved it could sing a long. And the melody stuck in your brain. I did not like the song at all back in the days. But still i hummed the melody and got so angry at myself😆
Hahaha crazy how that happens
Some songs get old and classic, some just get old ... I liked it back then and it's catchy and everything but ... no. Better let it rest in peace.
damn I haven't heard Troll since -89 - and that make me glad 😎, hope for 100 years next time
Du måste googla vem Jimmy (James) Dean var!
Will it make the song better?
@@JonathanRollinssthlm305 Hahahaha, no!
@@JonathanRollinssthlm305 Knowing who James Dean was is part of the general education!
@@JonathanRollinssthlm305 James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955) and surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant (1956).
After his death in a car crash on September 30, 1955, Dean became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his role in East of Eden. Upon receiving a second nomination for his role in Giant the following year, Dean became the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star of Golden Age Hollywood in AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list.
give it up man, you are never right predictin how the song will be.
Catchy melody, but that's all.
Hi! Jonathan. Troll - Jimmy Dean 👎
Another song you needs reacts to: Emil Bergström & Elin Nilsson - Blåblå är kärleken. 💙
Amazing cover version! 💯👍
Vicky Leandros sang the original version. (Lámour est bleu) Eurovision Song Contest (1967)
Troll - Calling on Your Heart from 1988 is better than Jimmy Dean
Kör "Hyreskassern" av Peps Persson!
React to sommaren i city med Troll
Det var inte Troll som gjorde den och han har redan reagerat på den låten om jag inte missminner mig.
@@g83ster Japp, stämmer! Det var Angel som sjöng den
This song is a theft from Nik Kershawś The Riddle. They have stolen the melody.
No not at all - there are small similarities but no no no. (I’m a musician)
I cannot understand where you got that from, it is not the same melody.
Hehe, nej, verkligen inte. (Musiker här också)