Klinga Mina Klockor (BENNY & FRIDA)

Filmed: Summer 1987

Location: Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden

Broadcast: Tuesday 17 November 1987, 19:50-20:50, SVT1, Sweden (during Jacobs Stege)

Release status: Unreleased

Duration: Around 4 minutes

Shown in: Sweden

Additional information

Klinga Mina Klockor = Ring My Bell

Footage of the recording of the title track of Benny's first solo album, Klinga Mina Klockor which was filmed in Summer 1987 and broadcast during Jacobs Stege in November 1987.

It started with the ladies of the choir (Önskekören) arriving at Berwaldhallen and introducing themselves. Many of the names and faces were very familiar:

  1. Johanna Lundberg
  2. Karin Glenmark (one half of Gemini)
  3. Eva Dahlgren (huge singing star in Sweden)
  4. Lena Andersson (backing singer for ABBA's 1977 tour)
  5. Siw Malmkvist (huge Swedish 60s singing star and performed with the Hep Stars on Hylands hörna in 1966)
  6. Liza Ohman (backing singer for ABBA's 1979 tour)
  7. Frida (no explanation needed!)
  8. Yvonne Erlandsson
  9. Anna-Lotta Larsson
  10. Maritza Horn (backing singer for ABBA's 1977 tour (the one in the middle))
  11. Barbro "Lill-Babs" Svensson (huge Swedish 60s singing star - Stig had his song-writing breakthrough having written Är du kär i mig ännu, Klas-Göran? for Lill-Babs)
  12. Pernilla Wahlgren
  13. Diana Nunez (was a guest on Lite grand i örat in 1979)
  14. Lena Philipsson
  15. Monica Svensson (Lill-Babs' daughter I believe)
  16. Carola Häggkvist
  17. Mia Lindgren
  18. Ingela "Pling" Forsman (lyricist contributing to several of Agnetha's solo songs incl. Queen of Hearts as well as co-writing Gemini's Beat The Heat, Sniffin' Out The Snakes and There's No Way To Fool A Heart)
  19. Monica Forsberg
    and arriving a little later than the others:
  20. Nanne Nordqvist and Angelique Widengren (singers in Sound of Music with Benny's son Peter at the time of this recording. Angelique was Peter's girlfriend at the time (not Nanne) but Nanne would later join Peter in One More Time, marry Peter and become Benny's daughter-in-law).


Release information:
This was available on the SVT open archive but has since been removed.

 

Thanks to Johan Persson, Henk en Remko, Malin Westerberg, Jozsef and Julian Körner.
YouTube link c/o Stephen Layton


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