Hep Stars Sån't som slog = Hep Stars Things That Were Hits

The Hep Stars featuring Benny, Svenne & Lotta on this show where they covered some songs and performed a medley of their own.

Benny was briefly interviewed at the end of the programme but came across as fairly miserable.

In the TV listings, this was referred to as the last TV appearance by The Hep Stars and some of the songs listed as being performed were: Farmer John, Cadillac, Lilla Sofie, Malaika and Sunny Girl. In fact, as the Medley clip shows, the only Hep Stars' songs in the Medley were Cadillac, Farmer John, Bald-Headed Woman, No Response, Sunny Girl, Wedding, Malaika, Mot okänt land, Sagan om lilla Sofie and Let It Be Me.

Amongst the songs covered were Speedy Gonzales and Reach Out (I'll Be There) with a hint of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary and The Beatles' Get Back and Martha My Dear (in the form of a Swedish version entitled Lotta min vän (Lotta my friend).

The show was hosted by Urban von Rosen, and produced by Peter Goldman. One of the credits shows involvement by Magnus Härenstam (presumably the same guy who played the teacher from When I Kissed The Teacher and Frida's co-star in Jokerfejs - Härenstams Blandning).

Most of the performances concentrated heavily on Svenne and Lotta - Benny was just the keyboard player in the background!  It also looks like there was a new guitarist.

Click here for a TV listing from Arbeiderbladet - 18 August 1969, p.25
Click here for a TV listing from Arbeiderbladet - 11 October 1969, p.31.

Urban von Rosen: Today artists have a much higher demand on them being focused on the society and being radical, how do you approach that demand?
Benny Andersson: Well, I don't think it's as bad as the daily and evening newspapers like to put it. They could of course speak up more, I suppose. But I think it's wrong that a single artist or a sportsman or whatever, is forced to make a decision, that he really shouldn't have to, that you'll have to think before whatever it will effect you in one way or an other, only because he happens to be who he is, that has to be wrong, I think.
UvR: But just the radical part?
BA: If there are those who want to be that, well let them be that.
UvR: Well, it started with a Cadillac and now it's a concept, Hep Stars. You can worship Hep Stars, you can listen to Hep Stars, you can like Hep Stars a lot, you can dislike Hep stars. But it's probably quite difficult becoming as famous as the Hep Stars.

Hep Stars. Sån't som slog
1969-08-18, 1969-10-11
Utgivning
År/datum 1969-08-18, 1969-10-11
Anmärkningar
Anmärkning Prod: Peter Goldman
Speltid 25 min.
Originalformat
Ljud Mono
Arkiv
Leverantör Köp SVT
Exemplar
Digital Betacam T98-0405
Arkivnummer T98-0405
MPEG-1 ZS_ T98-0405
Filbeskrivning 1,5 Mbit/s, MPEG-1 layer 2, 48kHz, 128 kbit/s
Arkivnummer ZS_T98-0405

Thanks to Jozsef, Carl Magnus Palm and Malin Westerberg. Extra thanks to Steve Layton, Erik Liebstaedter and to Pascale Ranson c/o ABBA Village. Also thanks to Tony Becker c/o ABBAMAIL (no longer online).
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