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REMEMBER CARAMBA ?

Can't say I do - never heard the first Hawaiian style tune.
But the second - Hubba hubba zoot zoot - was a plague here 20 or 30 years years ago. Don't think I ever caught the name of the performing group.

Not really my cup of tea. :D
 
As far as I understand, they were a backing group for ABBA, and in their spare time, they came up with these songs, that sound like a language, but are just nonsense. :lol:
 
motoguzziman said:
As far as I understand, they were a backing group for ABBA, and in their spare time, they came up with these songs, that sound like a language, but are just nonsense. :lol:
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Partly right. In a Google-translation of a Swedish Wikipedia-article, it says like this:


Caramba, Swedish band from the early 1980s. The group was a studio project of Michael B. Tretow and Ted Gärdestad. [1] Their only released album, Caramba from 1981, indicates only the members of pseudonyms.

The group started as a loose project with Tretow and Gärdestad as "The GÖsta Hanson Story. " GÖsta Hansson went to the South Pacific, where he was met by the song Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot (originally a phrase from Spike Jones). Demo recording was played of the radio, it was a success and the album was recorded thereafter. [1]

The single became the best one on the Swedish sales charts, the album peaked at a fourteenth place. [2]

There was at that time, many rumors about who would be involved, such as Bjorn Skifs, Claes af Geijerstam, Ted Gärdestad, Pugh Rogefeldt, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson. It was not until the late 1990s as two of its members' identities were confirmed.
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Tretow was the ABBA producer at the Polar-studios. Ted Gärdestad was a teenage idol of the 70's making evergreens still played and highly appreciated in Sweden (his songs are nearly all of them written and performed in Swedish), af Geijerstam is known as a producer having his roots in the booming 60's pop and Rogefeldt is another 60-70's pop&rock icon, like Gärdestad performig in Swedish only. Björn Skifs has an incredible voice and tried to make a career abroad in the late 70's, but didn't succeed, probably because of his choice of repertoire.
Ohh yeah, it's the hard core of Swedish music performing in Caramba. You wouldn't know when listening... :blink:


Actually, to me the word Caramba mostly recalls

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-which is the German answer to WD-40..... :mrgreen:
 
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