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Tages discography

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Tages formed in May 1963 as a duo and quickly expanded into quintet, though no music by them would be released until more than a year later, when their debut single "Sleep Little Girl" was released in October 1964.[1] Up until October 1968, 23 singles by the group were released, though six of those were unauthorized.[2] Out of these singles, 13 managed to reach both Kvällstoppen and Tio i Topp while two further singles only reached Tio I Topp.[3][4] In 1969, the band changed their name to Blond and three further singles were released between July 1969 and July 1970, out of which one reached Tio i Topp. Combined under both names, the band released in total 27 singles between October 1964 and July 1970.[5]

Tages discography
Tages in 1966
Studio albums6
Compilation albums7
Video albums1
EPs6
Singles27

Between September 1964 and January 1967, the group was signed to Platina Records, an independent record label run by Evert Jakobsson.[6] With the label, the group released three studio albums.[7] Dissatisfied with the label's economical status, they waited until their contract expired, which it did on New Year's Day 1967.[8] They then promptly signed with Parlophone Records, who, with a bigger budget, could afford to give the group more time in the studio. This resulted in another two albums, Contrast and Studio, both released in 1967.[9] The group's final album The Lilac Years was issued under the name Blond after they had received a contract with Fontana Records in 1969.[10] In the UK, the group had releases on four different labels, His Master's Voice, Columbia Records, Parlophone and MGM Records.[11]

Studio albums edit

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications(sales thresholds)
NOR
[12]
As Tages
Tages —
Tages 2
  • Released: 4 August 1966[15]
  • Label: Platina
 —
Extra Extra
  • Released: 28 November 1966[17]
  • Label: Platina
 20
Contrast —
Studio
  • Released: 4 December 1967[19]
  • Label: Parlophone
 —
As Blond
The Lilac Years —

Compilations edit

Title Album details Peak chart positions
SWE
[21]
The Best Of Tages
  • Released: August 1967[22]
  • Label: Platina Records
 —
Forget Him
  • Released: 28 May 1968[23]
  • Label: Platina
 —
Good Old Tages! —
Tages, 1964–68! —
This One's For You —
Original Album Serien 53
Go! – The Complete Singles —

Extended plays edit

Title EP details Peak chart positions
Kvällstoppen
[3]
Tages
  • Released: 4 June 1965[27]
  • Label: Platina Records
 2[nb 1]
Sleep Little Girl
  • Released: 30 August 1966[28]
  • Label: Platina
 —
Hits Volym 1
  • Released: August 1967[29]
  • Label: Platina
 —
Hits Volym 2
  • Released: August 1967[30]
  • Label: Platina
 —
Hits Volym 3
  • Released: August 1967[31]
  • Label: Platina
 —
Live And Jealous
  • Released: 13 December 2012[32][33]
  • Label: Premium Publishing
 —

Singles edit

Swedish singles edit

Year Song B-side Chart positions EP / Album
Kvällstoppen[3] Tio i Topp[4]
As Tages
1964 "Sleep Little Girl" "Tell Me You're Mine" 3 1 A: Tages (album)

B: non-album

1965 "I Should Be Glad" "I Cry" 2 2 A: non-album

B: non-album

"Don't Turn Your Back" "Hound Dog" 2 2 A: Tages (EP)

B: Tages (EP)

"The One for You" "I Got My Mojo Working" 6 2 A: Tages (album)

B: Tages (album)

"Bloodhound" "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" 3 6 A: Tages (album)

B: non-album

1966 "So Many Girls" "I'm Mad" 5 4 A: non-album

B: non-album

"I'll Be Doggone" "Hitch Hike" 10 7
"In My Dreams" "Leaving Here" 1 1 A: Tages 2

B: Tages 2

"Crazy 'Bout My Baby" "Go" 16 15
"Miss Mac Baren" "Get Up an' Get Goin'" 1 4 A: non-album

B: Extra Extra

1967 "Secret Room"[nb 2] "Friday on My Mind" — — A: Extra Extra

B: Extra Extra

"Every Raindrop Means A Lot" "Look What You Get" 4 2 A: Contrast

B: non-album

"Gone Too Far"[nb 3] "Understanding" — — A: Extra Extra

B: Extra Extra

"I'm Going Out" "Fuzzy Patterns" 3 2 A: Contrast

B: Contrast

"She's Having a Baby Now" "Sister's Got a Boyfriend" — — A: Studio

B: Contrast

"One Red, One Yellow, One Blue"[nb 4] "True Fine Woman" — — A: Extra Extra

B: Extra Extra

"Treat Her Like a Lady" "Wanting" 7 3 A: non-album

B: Contrast

"Dancing in the Street"[nb 5] "Those Rumours" — 15 A: Tages 2

B: Tages 2

"Mohair Sam"[nb 6] "Ride Your Pony" — — A: Extra Extra

B: Extra Extra

1968 "There's a Blind Man Playin' Fiddle in the Street" "Like a Woman" — 10 A: non-album

B: Studio

"Doctor Feel-Good"[nb 7] "Dimples" — — A: Tages (album)

B: Tages (album)

"Fantasy Island" "To Be Free" — 14 A: non-album

B: non-album

"I Read You Like an Open Book" "Halcyon Days" — —
As Blond
1969 "I Wake Up and Call" "The Girl I Once — 14 The Lilac Years
"The Lilac Years (De Sålde Sina Hemman)" "Six White Horses" — —
1970 "Lost Child" "How Can I Pray When I Don't Believe (The Elephant)" — — non-album
  • Note 1: "—" denotes singles that did not chart, blank spaces were not released in that country.

Other contributions edit

Year Song Release
1965 "Hey Mama" Written by Anders Töpel and Göran Lagerberg. Single song 7-inch flexi disc released for Värnamo Confection in August 1965.[34]
1966 "The Man You'll Be Looking For" Written by Lagerberg. Featured on a three-song flexi disc given out by Swedish magazine Bildjournalen number 9, released on 2 March 1966.[34]

The other two tracks featured are Ola and the Janglers "My Mean Memory" and the Strangers "I'll Never Cry Again".[34]

"Long Tall Shorty" Written by Don Covay. Issued on Expressen's April 1966 five-track EP Expressens Drömband following a nationwide contest.[34]

The other artists included on the EP are Streaplers, the Shanes, Sven-Ingvars and the Spotnicks.

1967 "My Home Town" Written by Töpel and Tommy Blom. Released on Sveriges Radio's compilation Popligan För FN och Flykting-67 on 1 March 1967.[35]
"En present till alla trogna fans från Tommy, Danne, Göran, Anders, Lasse". Christmas record sent out to members of Tages fan club. Contains studio chatter by the band members along with a short rendition of "Down by the Riverside".[34]

Videography edit

Year Film Release
1968 Dalamania Directed by Peter Goldmann (who had previously directed the promotional videos for the Beatles "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever"[36])

Sveriges Television (SVT) half hour special that features segments of the band miming to tracks from their album Studio.[37]

Initially aired on Swedish Channel 1 on 31 May 1968, and later issued on DVD with the 2017 reissue of Studio.[38]

References edit

Notes

  1. ^ Lead single was "Don't Turn Your Back" which reached number two on Kvällstoppen in July 1965.
  2. ^ Unauthorized release by Platina Records.[8]
  3. ^ Unauthorized release by Platina Records.[8]
  4. ^ Unauthorized release by Platina Records.[8]
  5. ^ Unauthorized release by Platina Records.[8]
  6. ^ Unauthorized release by Platina Records.[8]
  7. ^ Unauthorized release by Platina Records.[8]

References

  1. ^ Brandels & Wrigholm 2012, p. 36.
  2. ^ Brandels & Wrigholm 2012, p. 153.
  3. ^ a b c Hallberg, Eric (1993). Eric Hallberg presenterar Kvällstoppen i P 3: Sveriges radios topplista över veckans 20 mest sålda skivor 10. 7. 1962 - 19. 8. 1975. Drift Musik. ISBN 978-9163021404.
  4. ^ a b Hallberg, Eric; Henningsson, Ulf (1998). Eric Hallberg, Ulf Henningsson presenterar Tio i topp med de utslagna på försök: 1961 - 74. Premium. ISBN 919727125X.
  5. ^ Brandels & Wrigholm 2012, p. 280.
  6. ^ Brandels & Wrigholm 2012, p. 35.
  7. ^ Brandels & Wrigholm 2012, p. 289–290.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g Brandels & Wrigholm 2012, p. 152.
  9. ^ Brandels & Wrigholm 2012, p. 290–291.
  10. ^ Brandels & Wrigholm 2012, p. 302.
  11. ^ Brandels & Wrigholm 2012, p. 298–299.
  12. ^ "VG-Lista: Tages". VG-Lista. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  13. ^ a b "Tages − Tages (album)". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  14. ^ Brandels & Wrigholm 2012, p. 89.
  15. ^ a b "Tages – Tages 2". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  16. ^ Brandels & Wrigholm 2012, p. 125.
  17. ^ "Tages – Extra Extra". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  18. ^ "Tages – Contrast". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  19. ^ "Tages – Studio". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  20. ^ Tages, 1964-68! (back cover). Persson, Lennart. Tages. Parlophone Records. 1983.
  21. ^ "Sverigetopplistan". Sverigetopplistan (in Swedish). Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  22. ^ "Tages – The Best Of Tages". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  23. ^ "Tages – Forget Him". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  24. ^ "Tages – Good Old Tages". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  25. ^ "Tages – Tages, 1964–68!". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  26. ^ "Tages – This One's For You". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  27. ^ "Tages – Tages (EP)". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  28. ^ "Tages – Sleep Little Girl (EP)". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  29. ^ "Tages – Hits Volym 1". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  30. ^ "Tages – Hits Volym 2". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  31. ^ "Tages – Volym 3". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  32. ^ "Tages – Live And Jealous". www.svenskpophistoria.se. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  33. ^ "Boken om Tages - Från Avenyn till Abbey Road". Premium Publishing. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  34. ^ a b c d e Brandels & Wrigholm 2012, p. 292.
  35. ^ Brandels & Wrigholm 2012, p. 293.
  36. ^ Miles, Barry (2001). The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years. Omnibus Press. p. 255. ISBN 0-7119-8308-9.
  37. ^ Brandels & Wrigholm 2012, p. 208.
  38. ^ "Tages LP: Studio (180g Vinyl & DVD)". Bear Family Records. Retrieved 9 September 2021.

Sources edit

  • Brandels, Göran; Wrigholm, Lennart (2012). Boken om Tages: från Avenyn till Abbey Road. Premium Publishing. ISBN 978-91-89136-88-5.
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