Sommarparty

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"Sommarparty"
Song by Herreys
from the album Crazy People
Language Swedish
Released 1985
Genre pop, schlager
Songwriter(s) Ingela Forsman
Composer(s) Lasse Holm
Producer(s) Anders Engberg
Crazy People track listing
10 9 8 7 6 5 4
(6)
"Sommarparty"
(7)
Crazy People
(8)

"Sommarparty" (English "Summer Party") is a summer song written by Lasse Holm and Ingela "Pling" Forsman, and recorded by the Herreys on the 1985 album Crazy People , [1] and by Stig-Roland Holmblm on the 1985 album Memories 1985. [2] The Herreys also recorded the song in English, as "Summerparty", on the 1986 album Herrey's Story [3]

Lasse Holm Swedish songwriter

Lars-Eric Gustav "Lasse" Holm is known as a Swedish composer, lyricist and singer of pop music and with a career spanning several decades.

Ingela Birgitta "Pling" Forsman is a Swedish lyricist in popular music. As a student Forsman attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. 1981–2009, 33 of her songs have competed in the Swedish Melodifestivalen, three of them winners: Bra vibrationer (1985), Se på mej (1995) and Kärleken är (1998). She has also written the text to psalm number 862 in the Swedish hymn book, Blomningstid, and two children's books.

Herreys, is a Swedish pop group, consisting of the three Mormon brothers Per Herrey, Richard Herrey and Louis Herrey. They won the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 with the song "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley". Richard and Luis Herrey became the first teenage males to win Eurovision and remain the youngest ever male winners, being 19 years and 260 days and 18 years and 184 days of age respectively. In 1985, they won the Sopot International Song Festival with "Sommarparty". At the time Herreys won Eurovision, the brothers were living and working as singers in the United States. 2 Herreys continued to record and tour for a few years, but had no hits of the same magnitude as the Eurovision winner. They were the first European boyband preceding the international boom a few years later. Herreys was the bestselling pop group in Sweden in the 1980s, and enjoyed enormous success touring and performing in excess of 300 live shows. Herreys was also the first western band to be invited to tour behind the Iron Curtain in the Soviet Union, and also did shows with the big Russian star Alla Pugacheva. Louis Herrey decided in 1987 that he needed to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and with his brothers' permission he left for two years, leading to the breakup of Herreys.

In 1985 Herreys won the Sopot Music Festival Grand Prix performing the song.

The Sopot International Song Festival is an annual international song contest held in Sopot, Poland. It was the biggest Polish music festival altogether with the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole, and one of the biggest song contests in Europe.

In 1996, Flamingokvintetten recorded the song, releasing it as a single. [4] and on the album Favoriter [5]

Flamingokvintetten is a Swedish dansband, founded in 1960 in Partille, Sweden.

Chart trajectories

Chart (1985)Peak position
Sweden 20 [6]

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References

  1. "Crazy People" (in Swedish). Svensk mediedatabas. 1985. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  2. "Memories" (in Swedish). Svensk mediedatabas. 1985. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  3. "Herrey's Story" (in Swedish). Svensk mediedatabas. 1986. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  4. "Sommarparty" (in Swedish). Svensk mediedatabas. 1996. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  5. "Favoriter" (in Swedish). Svensk mediedatabas. 1996. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  6. "Sommarparty". Swedishcharts. 1985. Retrieved 19 August 2014.