MS70: Malmö - Stand By (FRIDA)

Filmed: Early March 1970

Location: Malmö, Sweden

Broadcast: Sunday 8 March 1970, 20:30-21:00, SVT1, Sweden

Release status: These three performances were included in the Frida Box Set released on 5 December 2005

Duration: 21:28 whole programme; Frida songs 5:53

Shown in: Sweden

Additional information

This was a jazz entertainment show from Malmö. It was a television show for the illness MS (Multiple Sclerosis) and dedicated to the charity fund ’Radiohjälpen’ in aid of MS patients and MS research.

The host was Harry Arnold and the running order of the show were:-

Danska Radions Big Band directed by Harry Arnold – opening scene
Frida – Just One Of Those Things, Mad About The Boy
Carli Tornehave – Chicago, I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Frida - My Man
Danska Radions Big Band– closing scene

The progarmme was available on the SVT Open Archive but has since been removed.

 

My Man

It cost me a lot
But I something that I've got
It's my man

Cold or wet
Tired, you bet
All of this I'll soon forget
With my man

He's not much for looks
He's no hero out of books
He's my man

Two or three girls
Has he
That he likes as well as me
But I love him
I don't know why I should
He isn't good
He isn't true
He beats me, too
What can I do?

Oh, my man, I love him so
He'll never know
All my life is just despair
But I don't care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright
All right

What's the difference if I say
I'll go away
When I know I'll come back
On my knees someday
For whatever my man is
I'm his forever more

 

Just One Of Those Things
(Frank Sinatra)

It was just one of those things
Just one of those crazy flings
One of those bells that now and then rings
Just one of those things

It was just one of those nights
Just one of those fabulous flights
A trip to the moon on gossamer wings
Just one of those things

If we'd thought a bit about the end of it
When we started painting the town
We'd have been aware that our love affair
Was too hot not to cool down

So good-bye, dear, and amen
Here's hoping we meet now and then
It was great fun
But it was just one of those things

 

Mad About The Boy
(Frank Sinatra)

Mad about the boy
I know it's stupid to be mad about the boy
I'm so ashamed of it but must admit the sleepless nights I've had
About the boy

On the silver screen
He melts my foolish heart in every single scene
Although I'm quite aware that here and there are traces of the cad
About the boy

Lord knows I'm not a fool girl
I really shouldn't care
Lord knows I'm not a school girl
In the fury of her first affair

Will it ever cloy
This odd diversity of misery and joy
I'm feeling quite insane and young again
And all because I'm mad about the boy

(last verse not performed by Frida):
So if I could employ
A little magic that will finally destroy
This dream that pains me and enchains me
But I can't because I'm mad...
I'm mad about the boy

Information from Robin Andersson, some of it via ABBAMAIL (no longer online). Thanks to Steve Layton, Carl Magnus Palm and Jozsef.
YouTube link c/o Mickael Andersson

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