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Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad, better known to the world since 1973 as Frida and a member (and ex-member) of ABBA, had a fairly extensive recording career before joining the quartet. This double-CD set collects her various singles and LPs from that phase of her career, most of which were cut for the Swedish division of EMI Records. The hope is, obviously, that this collection will surprise and delight fans of ABBA, but there's considerable risk here as well -- that at least the first two-thirds of the first disc will bore or appall those same fans. Those first 14 songs date from a period in which Lyngstad's goal (or, at least, that of her producer and/or manager) was for her to be Sweden's answer to Petula Clark. The fit is an awkward one, especially given the production on those early sides -- thick-textured accompaniments that sound Italian, French, and anything but comfortable. Her work finally catches fire on this collection exactly where it did in history, when she commenced working with Benny Andersson, late of the Hep Stars, as her producer. Two-thirds of the way through the first disc, with "Peter Pan" (co-written by Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus), her voice is suddenly freed by Andersson's airy and open, light-textured yet distinctive production. The second disc opens with her version of "The Sound of Silence," sung as "En Ton Av Tystnad," which is beautiful, and is followed by "Suzanne" which, with its double-tracked vocals, is the first place where listeners get a preview, in very embryonic form, of "the ABBA sound." Those two tracks, along with all seven opening the second disc and the last four on disc one, are off of Lyngstad's 1971 Frida album, which marked the place where she adopted her more familiar performing name. The other material, including her duets with folksinger Lars Berghagen, is also quite beguiling, reminiscent of the work of Jim & Jean, and that parallel is even more pronounced as one of their recordings was a cover of Phil Ochs' "Changes." In the midst of these various later solo incarnations is a string of single A- and B-sides circa 1971, released by Polygram -- "Min Egan Stad," "En Gang Ar Ingen Gang" (aka "There Goes My Everything"), "Vi Ar Alla Bara Barn I Borjan," and "Kom Och Sjung En Sang" (aka "No Sad Songs") produced by Andersson -- that could easily have come off of that very first ABBA album in terms of sound. One can safely think of those and a handful of other tracks here as previews of the sound that would make Lyngstad (and Andersson) stars around the world, and if anyone ever decided to do an album of "ABBA missing links," they could start in worse places. The notes are in Swedish but beyond that drawback the sound is excellent, and fans of the singer or the group should certainly appreciate its contents and the surprises held therein.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
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Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Bengt Sten, Lyricist - Marcus Österdahls Orkester, Vocals - Matteo Chiosso, Writer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Bruno Defillippi, Writer
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1967 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Lotar Olias, Music - Walter Rothenburg, Lyricist - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Olle Bergman, Miscellaneous - Marcus Österdahls Orkester, Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1967 Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Agustin Rodriguez, Lyricist - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Gonzalo Roig, Composer, Music - Marcus Österdahls Orkester, Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Jan Jerico, Lyricist, Miscellaneous
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1967 Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Bob Crewe, Composer - Bob Gaudio, Composer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Börje Carlsson, Miscellaneous - Marcus Österdahls Orkester, Second Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Seth Neuman, Miscellaneous
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1967 Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Gunnar Sandevärn, Composer - Ivan Renlidens Orkester, Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1968 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Ivan Renlidens Orkester, Vocals - Bengt Haslum, Miscellaneous - Bradford Craig, Composer - Ty Whitney, Composer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1968 Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Lorenzo Pilat, Composer - Mario Panzeri, Composer - Stikkan Anderson, Miscellaneous - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Daniele Pace, Composer - Ivan Renlidens Orkester, Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1968 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Olle Bergman, Miscellaneous - Gene Austin, Composer - Marcus Österdahls Orkester, Vocals - Nat Shilkret, Composer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1968 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Ivan Renliden, Composer - Ivan Renlidens Orkester, Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1969 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Jules Sylvain, Music - Karl-Ewert, Lyricist - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Ivan Renlidens Orkester, Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1969 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Arnold Goland, Writer - Jack Gold, Writer - Stikkan Anderson, Miscellaneous - Stig Anderson, Lyricist - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Ivan Renlidens Orkester, Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1969 Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
Bill Martin, Composer - Phil Coulter, Composer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Bo-Göran Edling, Miscellaneous - Ivan Renlidens Orkester, Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1969 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Mats Olsson, Arranger - Benny Andersson, Composer, Producer - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Composer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Mats Olssons Orkester, Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1969 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Mats Olsson, Arranger - Benny Andersson, Producer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Peter Himmelstrand, Composer - Mats Olssons Orkester, Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1969 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Benny Andersson, Producer - Barry Mason, Writer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Olle Bergman, Lyricist, Miscellaneous - Marcus Österdahls Kör & Orkester, Vocals - Tony Macaulay, Writer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1970 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Clive Westlake, Composer - Benny Andersson, Producer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Patrice Hellberg, Miscellaneous - Marcus Österdahls Orkester, Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1970 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
DISC 2
Anton Rubenstein, Music - Benny Andersson, Producer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Peter Himmelstrand, Lyricist, Arranger - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Claes Rosendahls Orkester, Vocals
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1971 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Teddy Randazzo, Composer - Benny Andersson, Producer - Stikkan Anderson, Miscellaneous - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Robert Weinstein, Composer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Bengt Palmers Orkester, Vocals
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1971 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Benny Andersson, Producer, Music - Stikkan Anderson, Lyricist - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Music - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Claes Rosendahls Orkester, Vocals
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1971 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Lasse Berghagen, Lyricist - traditionell, Music - Benny Andersson, Producer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Claes Rosendahl, Arranger - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Claes Rosendahls Orkester, Vocals
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1971 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Paul Simon, Writer - Benny Andersson, Producer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Owe Junsjö, Lyricist, Miscellaneous - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Bengt Palmers Orkester, Vocals
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1971 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Benny Andersson, Producer - Leonard Cohen, Composer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Owe Junsjö, Miscellaneous - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Claes Rosendahls Orkester, Vocals
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1971 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Composer, Music - Benny Andersson, Producer - Tim Rice, Composer, Lyricist - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Peter Himmelstrand, Miscellaneous - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Claes Rosendahls Orkester, Vocals
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1971 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Music Sweden AB
Paul Leka, Composer - Benny Andersson, Producer - Stikkan Anderson, Miscellaneous - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Bengt Palmers Orkester, Vocals - Denise Gross, Composer
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1971 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Lasse Berghagen, Miscellaneous - Benny Andersson, Producer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Sylvia Fine, Composer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Claes Rosendahls Orkester, Vocals
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1971 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Benny Andersson, Producer - Cornelis Vreeswijk, Lyricist - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Georg Riedel, Music - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Claes Rosendahls Orkester, Vocals
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1971 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Benny Andersson, Producer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Peter Himmelstrand, Composer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Claes Rosendahls Orkester, Vocals
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1971 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Benny Andersson, Composer, Producer, Music - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Peter Himmelstrand, Lyricist - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Bengt Palmers Orkester, PLG Unknown Participant, Second Vocals
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1971 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Dallas Frazier, Composer - Benny Andersson, Producer - Stikkan Anderson, Miscellaneous - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist - Bengt Palmers Orkester, Vocals
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1971 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Benny Andersson, Composer, Producer - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Composer - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Sven-Olof Walldoffs Orkester, Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1972 Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Toni Stern, Writer - Carole King, Writer - Benny Andersson, Producer - Stikkan Anderson, Miscellaneous - Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Lead Vocals - Sven-Olof Walldoffs Orkester, Vocals - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, MainArtist
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1972 Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
Album review
Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad, better known to the world since 1973 as Frida and a member (and ex-member) of ABBA, had a fairly extensive recording career before joining the quartet. This double-CD set collects her various singles and LPs from that phase of her career, most of which were cut for the Swedish division of EMI Records. The hope is, obviously, that this collection will surprise and delight fans of ABBA, but there's considerable risk here as well -- that at least the first two-thirds of the first disc will bore or appall those same fans. Those first 14 songs date from a period in which Lyngstad's goal (or, at least, that of her producer and/or manager) was for her to be Sweden's answer to Petula Clark. The fit is an awkward one, especially given the production on those early sides -- thick-textured accompaniments that sound Italian, French, and anything but comfortable. Her work finally catches fire on this collection exactly where it did in history, when she commenced working with Benny Andersson, late of the Hep Stars, as her producer. Two-thirds of the way through the first disc, with "Peter Pan" (co-written by Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus), her voice is suddenly freed by Andersson's airy and open, light-textured yet distinctive production. The second disc opens with her version of "The Sound of Silence," sung as "En Ton Av Tystnad," which is beautiful, and is followed by "Suzanne" which, with its double-tracked vocals, is the first place where listeners get a preview, in very embryonic form, of "the ABBA sound." Those two tracks, along with all seven opening the second disc and the last four on disc one, are off of Lyngstad's 1971 Frida album, which marked the place where she adopted her more familiar performing name. The other material, including her duets with folksinger Lars Berghagen, is also quite beguiling, reminiscent of the work of Jim & Jean, and that parallel is even more pronounced as one of their recordings was a cover of Phil Ochs' "Changes." In the midst of these various later solo incarnations is a string of single A- and B-sides circa 1971, released by Polygram -- "Min Egan Stad," "En Gang Ar Ingen Gang" (aka "There Goes My Everything"), "Vi Ar Alla Bara Barn I Borjan," and "Kom Och Sjung En Sang" (aka "No Sad Songs") produced by Andersson -- that could easily have come off of that very first ABBA album in terms of sound. One can safely think of those and a handful of other tracks here as previews of the sound that would make Lyngstad (and Andersson) stars around the world, and if anyone ever decided to do an album of "ABBA missing links," they could start in worse places. The notes are in Swedish but beyond that drawback the sound is excellent, and fans of the singer or the group should certainly appreciate its contents and the surprises held therein.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 31 track(s)
- Total length: 01:32:52
- Main artists: Anni-Frid Lyngstad
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Parlophone Sweden
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 1997 Parlophone Music Sweden a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
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