OK, no idea why, but here we go. What I've seen online, most of the English-speaking crowd doesn't have a clue, but some in the svensktalande crowd know it.
Once upon a time there was a young man named Benny. He played keyboard in a Beatles-type rock group in Sweden in the 1960s. He also wrote a song for this group. The song became a hit in Sweden. Here it is. You can see Benny in the beginning of the clip, looking like Anna Wintour.
That group had a catchy name. Hep Stars.
Here's their biggest hit ever. Keyboard and histrionics by Benny.
My baby drew up in a brand new Cadillac (2x)
But she ain't never ever coming back
Baby baby baby please
Can't you see I'm on my bended knees
Your heart's so cold that it's gonna freezeBenny and his group didn't write that. That's a cover. But if you were to walk into a music store in Stockholm and play the riff on the low E-string, people would yelp 'Cadillac'.
So Benny played keyboard on a rip-off from the composer of the theme song from Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Benny met another musician on the road, a folk guitarist from another group with another catchy name, Hootenanny Singers. His name is Björn.
[So let's dispel the mystery about Ö to start with. It's an O with two dots (an umlaut) above. You don't want to pronounce his name like BYYYYORRRRN (cringe) but - although the 'j' is indeed like the 'y' - the 'ö' is like puckering your lips to say an 'o' but you say 'e' instead. Got it?]
Anyway, Benny and Björn meet up and start writing songs together and stuff.
Simultaneously a former schoolteacher sees a future in writing Swedish lyrics for international hits, opens his own publishing company which he calls Polar Music, and later opens his own recording studio where Bon Jovi people are later to record, and this manager wants to hire Björn to run his studio. Not without Benny, Björn tells him. But I can't afford two salaries, the manager tells Björn. So then both of us will work for a half salary each, says Björn. Done deal.
So Björn and Benny work at the Polar Music studio, record some local talent, then bring in the GFs to help with backing vocals, then they try recording together, the four of them, then the manager writes their initials on a studio production sheet, then - with permission from a local cannery company - an acronym is born.
Now the leader of Benny's old group Hep Stars contacts him. Write us a hit, Benny, he asks. We want to go to Eurovision. So Benny - now with Björn as lyricist - sends this one over to him and his GF. This is what comes of it - the Swedish finals for the ESC.
Nah. That doesn't really make the cut. So Benny and Björn re-record it with their GFs. This is what comes out.
No one's ever explained what the title means in either language.
Afterword
You might know someone who’s interested, or you might be interested yourself.
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Normally the prices are much higher.
Currently they’re going for $72 each.
Why? As we ready a transition to use of open source systems, or at least contemplate it, we’re thinking we might ‘sit this one out’. Too much head-banging for far too long.
Note: You can pick up both the XTP and the ACP together for $144!
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