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RE: Re: (TV) The Polar Prize

Sure, and many best-selling artists - like Spears, Aguillera, Dion - have travelled to Stockholm to record and compose songs that have been top-selling hit singles.
Didn't knew that Marshall Crenshaw was an ABBA-fan. Think they're kind of a guilty pleasure to many. And I don't think that Bjorn & Benny regard their ABBA songs as anything else than fun pop music, that had surprisingly international potential. Today Benny Andersson has his own folk music orchestra and it's very successful domestically. Sooner or later, their musical "Kristina from Duvemela" - written together with Tim Rice, if memory serves - will appear in America, since it has an American theme: it's based on books about the Swedish immigration wave in the 1870's; the same books was transformed into two Oscar-nominated, very naturalistic movies in the early 70's, partly shot in Minnesota. 

Leif J, Sweden



From: "Dever, Paul (ELS)" <P.Dever@elsevier.com>
Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: RE: Re: (TV) The Polar Prize
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 15:13:32 -0600

Wasn't "Ooops, I did it again" written by Swedes?
To bad I can't translate: http://www.tv4.se/visa/?ID=345329

--Paul

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From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On Behalf Of Jesse
Hochstadt
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 2:14 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: Re: (TV) The Polar Prize

>>From: "stephen wilson"
>>Richard Thompson (the gold standard of musical taste I reckon)
>>paid them a sort of tongue in cheek tribute by covering one of
>>their songs ('Money') on his '1,000 Years of Popular Music' album.
>

Actually, RT's version of "Oops, I Did It Again" demonstrates that, to
paraphrase him, outside of its original context, it's a pretty good song.
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