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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Aug 30, 2017 1:22:47 GMT
Frida's Unreleased songs
Frida Album Sessions (1970) En Lang Och Odslig Vag Ga Min Vag
Ensam Album Sessions (1975) Med Lite Hjälp Av Musik Då Vaknar Alla Gamla Minnen Chapel Of Love
Something's Going On Album Sessions (1982) Shot Down In Action
Shine Album Sessions (1984) I Don't Wanna Be Alone I'm One Of God's Children You Can't Be Serious When Love Turns To Lies
Djupta Andetag Album Sessions (1996) Wonderwall (Might be rumours)
Anymore?
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Post by Liebezeit on Aug 30, 2017 3:39:33 GMT
I bet this one's open to speculations... and debunking, possibly; I believe after digital recording was practicable, outtakes were becoming less valued in favour of "instant finish tracks". Seems to me that Frida's "Chapel of Love" is the Berry-Greenwich-Spector song that Benny was going after... and I hope Anders Glenmark still has that digital session of Frida covering a (probably) Oasis song! Frida + Benny + Lennon-McCartney = A dynamic quartet that never was... That's one strong song. I wonder why Benny didn't think of including this in the 1971 album?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2017 10:56:35 GMT
Svenne & Lotta released "Chapel of Love" the same year as Frida Ensam and it's produced by Benny & Björn. I wonder if there is a connection.
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Post by HOMETIME on Feb 3, 2024 18:20:31 GMT
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Post by Michal on Feb 3, 2024 18:46:39 GMT
This year's 40th anniversary of Shine may be a good reason for releasing the outtakes. What about a nice little box like the one we got for Something's Going On?
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Post by Alan on Feb 3, 2024 21:24:04 GMT
Is it this post you refer to, HOMETIME? Shine (update) (www.fridabeyondabba.com) 40 years ago today, in 1984, the first recording sessions took place in Paris for Frida's follow-up to her international solo debut album Something's Going On under the working title The Face. Steve Lillywhite, one of the hottest young producers at the time, who, after his previous work with bands like Ultravox or Peter Gabriel, was producing big acts such as U2, Simple Minds and Big Country, was responsible for the production. Prior to the recording sessions for the album, Frida had tenaciously persisted in writing as much of her own music as possible, as Phil Collins, who had produced her first international album, had encouraged her to do. As a result, she had recorded several demos of her own compositions at the Polar Music Studios during the previous year. “I don’t have enough distance from them. That’s why I’ll be recording them in the studio,” she said in an interview at the time, “to hear if they hold up and to see if other people like them as well.” The first self-written demos that were recorded by Frida were ‘My Dearest Friend’ and ‘I Don't Wanna Be Alone’, on April 18, 1983, together with Rendez-Vous, a relatively unknown young band founded three years earlier by her son Hans, Benny Andersson’s son Peter Grönvall and two of their friends. Although both were strong compositions in their own different ways, only the latter would ultimately be recorded in 1984, that is, by her son Hans and Johanna Lundberg for a yet-to-be-formed band called FX. The fate of the ballad that Frida wrote that spring, on the other hand, would be more favourable in that respect. The title, ‘Don't Do It’, had come about quite spontaneously and she had completed the composition in just over a month. A demo was recorded for the song on June 18, produced by Rutger Gunnarsson. Paris Edvinsson, the sound engineer present, still has vivid memories of recording Frida’s vocals for her demos. “It was amazing how incredibly fast and confident Frida was when she sang lead vocals, backing vocals and choruses,” he says. ”She did great first takes and no retakes at all as I remember it.” Apart from unknown work by Frida and Polar Music sound engineer Leif Mases during a third afternoon/evening recording session on September 27 in studio B, of these sessions only ‘Don't Do It’ would make it onto the new album, which would eventually be called Shine. If you like to learn more about Frida’s 1983 recording sessions, the book Frida Beyond ABBA or to place an order, please visit fridabeyondabba.com The photo on the left (from Mark Brzezicki’s personal collection) was taken during the recording sessions for Shine in Paris and is exclusive for Frida Beyond ABBA.
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Post by gazman on Feb 4, 2024 12:09:02 GMT
I do not know how the seller of those 2 singles that feature unreleased tracks from 1984 came to have them - but I do know that Frida did not want them released.
As I recall, the seller sold those very limited singles at vastly inflated prices and asked buyers to sign a disclaimer that they would not share the tracks further - not that that kind of thing could ever be inforceable really...
I have no wish to hear them if Frida never intended us to. Some for any ABBA-related out-take, really.
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Post by HOMETIME on Feb 4, 2024 16:19:35 GMT
It was a different post, Alan, but something inspired by that, I think. Someone in the replies posted photos of their orange-vinyl edition of Chemistry Tonight with When Love Turns To Lies on the flip. He said that Frida's version was more uptempo than Chris Rea's version. I totally understand your stance, gazman. Looking at things more broadly, though, we wouldn't have heard the likes of Just Like That, Every Good Man, I Am The City, etc. if the creators' wishes were similarly respected. I'm very curious about how these two Frida tracks came to light. Are they taken from some grainy cassette, or did they get slyly copied when CD-Rs were sent for approval when Shine was remastered? I gather the prices for these singles were in the hundreds of Euros...?! This year's 40th anniversary of Shine may be a good reason for releasing the outtakes. What about a nice little box like the one we got for Something's Going On? Totally agree. The box set we got for SGO coincided with Frida's 70th birthday, so if a Shine special can't come this year, then Frida's 80th birthday in 2025 offers another moment of context (should such a thing be necessary). I'd love to see Djupa Andetag, Ensam and the 1971 debut get the same treatment. By the way, that Frida book is fantastic. The chapter on Shine mentions quite a few songs written and demoed by Frida and Remko seems to have heard at least some of them, as he tries to describe what they sound like. Clearly, the material is out there. It'd be great if Frida got in front of things and released them.
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