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| Sommartider |
If you'd like a copy of Sommartider
for yourself, here are three versions.
Right clik and choose Save Target As..
My favorite is the Miio Trance Remix.
Just click the song title to hear it. |
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Gyllene Tider
Sommartider
(Original) |
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1989 |
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0:03:18 |
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MP3 audio file (mp3) |
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194kbps |
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4.54MB |
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Miio
Sommartider
(Trance Remix) |
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2004 |
| Duration |
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0:03:23 |
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MP3 audio file (mp3) |
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194kbps |
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4.66MB |
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Freddie
Glider I Sommartider
(Radio Edit) |
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2005 |
| Duration |
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0:03:29 |
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MP3 audio file (mp3) |
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224kbps |
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4.65MB |
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Sommartider is this song I really like a lot. It was originaly done by this Swidish group called Gyllene Tider, back in 1989. More recently this other artist called Miio did a totaly cool cover/remix of it and this is the song I love.
Gyllene Tider is a Swedish pop group . Gyllene Tider means 'Golden Ages' or 'Golden Times' in English. Few Scandinavians have not heard the song "Sommartider," often played on the radio during late spring and early summer. The band is well-known for its catchy choruses and light-weight lyrics and can be compared to the Swedish "Beach Boys". In the text below, the Swedish name of the song is written in italic. Within parenthesis, the English translation is written.
A timeline of Gyllene Tider
- 1977
- Per Gessle, met Mats Persson, a member of the band Audiovisuellt Angrepp, forming the duo Grape Rock. Later Micke Andersson, Anders Herrlin and Göran Fritzon joined and the quintet was born. The group's name was changed to Gyllene Tider.
- 1978
- The band had become a group of local celebrities in Halmstad for their Christmas-concerts. They took advantage of this and released their quite rare vinyl ep; Billy. The record sold in about 900 copies.
- 1980
- the LP Gyllene Tider was released, becoming a huge success in Sweden. Flickorna på TV2 (The girls on channel 2) was the biggest hit on that album.
- 1981
- The second album was released in 1981 under the name Moderna Tider (Modern age) and also enjoyed huge success. It was followed up by a national tour. The next year Puls (Pulse) was released with the hits Sommartider (Summertimes) and Flickan i en Cole-Porter-sång (The girl in a Cole Porter song).
- 1984
- The group tried to break through to the American market in 1984 with the album Heartland (a six track mini version of the album The Heartland Café released in Sweden) under the name "Roxette". But it failed and the album flopped after selling about 8,000 copies.
- 1985
- the group officially broke up. But in the following years a few "Greatest hits" albums were released and a few reunions took place, in particular their immensely popular comeback tour Återtåget in 1996.
- 2004
- the band celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with the first new album after 20 years and a big summer tour in July and August. The tour, called GT25, was a huge success, being the biggest tour in Scandinavia ever and the second largest of all time in the whole of Europe, gathering large crowds all over Sweden. When they performed at Ullevi stadium in Göteborg during the GT25, 58 977 fans watched the concert live, and the performance was later broadcast on TV4 Sweden.
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© Ragnar Torfason
2006 May 28 |