Contact - Hon Kom Over Mon
 (1971)
Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock

Not In Collection
#996

7*
CD  52:20
15 tracks
   01   Grannlat             03:48
   02   Fisken             02:28
   03   Nattens Drottning             03:55
   04   Ograset Sprider Sig Pa Vallarna             02:27
   05   Smultes Vals             02:06
   06   Vagen Gick Vindlande Gra             03:38
   07   Minnen             03:43
   08   Hon Kom Over Mon             03:28
   09   Vargarnas Natt             04:19
   10   Samma Vindar, Samma Dofter             03:21
   11   Jass             04:14
   12   Fyrvaktarens Dotter             03:40
   13   Utmarker             03:41
   14   Ode Till En Fjord             03:27
   15   Guldkalven             04:05
Personal Details
Details
Country Sweden
Packaging Jewel Case
Spars DDD
Sound Stereo
Notes
About Ted Stro"m

I was born in Gothenburg 1944. Sometime in the late fifties I started to visit old ladies who tried to teach me to play the piano. It was the usual classic stuff an it mostly made me bored. At home I picked up tunes from my sisters records and learned them in my own way. One of the first I played was "Istanbul" which was a big hit at the time. On my fifteenth birthday my grandfather gave me a tenorbanjo and I tried to play new orleansjazz for some years. Later I turned to skiffle and listened to artists like Lonnie Donegan. 1960 my family moved to Stockholm an I went on with the jazz for a while but sometime in 1962 we formed a rockband "The Ruperts" and played on the local school-dances. 1963 I was at The Royal Tennishall in Stockholm and watched The Beatles. Since then nothing was the same. They really made us think that nothing was impossible. And it wasn?t at that time. 1964 I studied graphic design at Konstfack in Stockholm and I continued to play rock, which made my art-ambition fade a bit. The band had names like Yellow & Blues, Grand Canyon and finally Contact. We started as a r&b-group, passed through the psychedelic zone and 1968 we ended up as a folk-rockband, singing in swedish. Since high school I had been writing poetry so it wasn?t such a giant step to create songs with lyrics in my own language.
1970 we met three real folkmusicians (violinplayers) - Ska"ggmanslaget - and it influenced us a lot. We recorded "Gra*tla*ten" on their first album and I wrote "Hon kom o"ver mon" - a kind of folky pastisch, which we first recorded as a single. A year later we had our own fiddlers and made some kind of a breakthrough with the album "Hon kom o"ver mon". For some years we toured all over Sweden and we even made a norwegian tour. We played big festivals like Roskilde, Ruisrock in Finland and Salt?ya i Norway. We also appeared in several tv-shows. After another album - "Utmarker" - we broke up in late 1972 and a year later I moved up north in Sweden to the city of Lulea*. It was meant to be a four months job at the local theatre but I came to stay for almost nine years, wrote songs and played in bands like Norrbottens Ja"rn, Anton Swedbergs Swa"nga"ng and Skottes Musikorkester. Norrbottens Ja"rn made quite a success with the album "Dro"mmarnas Va"rld" and we toured a lot all over Sweden. I took part in radiocabarets and produced radio- and tv-programs. Since the late seventies I was musically on my own and made several soloalbums. I wrote my probably best known song "Vintersaga" in 1984, which first was recorded by Monica To"rnell who really made it famous. Later the song was recorded by Jerry Williams as well as by myself for a couple of times. In Lulea* I also met the filmdirector and writer - Lars Molin - whom I came to work with in almost all his tv-plays and movies until he sadly died in 1999. 1998 he won an Emmy-award for the tv-play "Den tatuerade a"nkan" (the tatooed widow) with my music. Later in 1999 I released an album - "regi: Lars Molin musik: Ted Stro"m" with most of the music from that happy collaboration. In 1985 me and my family - Eva, Anna, Johan and Albin - moved to O"rebro and I worked as a tv-producer and graphic designer until 1988. Since then I have been working full-time with music, graphic design and painting (art). In the year of 2000 we moved to the small town - Nora - 30 kilometres north of O"rebro. and here I?m running my own gallery - "Foaje'n. I?m also playing with the local "Group 713" and I have my own little studio as well. I?m also playing and touring with guitarplayer Torbjo"rn Carlsson and Bjo"rn J:son Lindh on flute and keyboards and a year ago we made the album "Vinterhamn" together with choirs directed by marvelous organplayer Marie Nordenmalm. AND the old group Contact is still alive and well. The last years we have been making festivals and cruising the Baltic and some year ago we released a new album - Samma vindar, samma dofter - which is a collection of remastered oldies and one new song. The sky is the limit!

http://www.myspace.com/tedstroem


Tracklist
A1 Grannlat
Drums - Leif Reinholds
Lyrics By - Strom*
Music By, Lyrics By - DeWolfe*
Saxophone [Alto] - Bjorn Holmsten
Violin - Bosse Linne , Claes Palmquist
Vocals [Some] - Ted Strom
Vocals, Organ, Bass - Lorne DeWolfe
A2 Fisken
Bass, Backing Vocals - Lorne DeWolfe
Drums, Backing Vocals - Leif Reinholds
Guitar, Backing Vocals - Ted Steerling
Vocals, Organ - Ted Strom
Written-By - Strom*
A3 Nattens Drottning
Bass, Vocals [Some] - Ted Steerling
Drums - Leif Reinholds
Lyrics By - Strom*
Music By, Lyrics By - DeWolfe*
Vocals, Guitar, Piano - Lorne DeWolfe
A4 Ograset Sprider Sig Pa Vallarna
Bass - Lorne DeWolfe
Drums - Leif Reinholds
Flute - Bjorn Holmsten
Guitar - Ted Steerling
Organ - Ted Strom
Violin - Bosse Linne
Vocals [Alla] - Contact (8)
Written-By - Strom*
A5 Smultes Vals
Accordion - Bjorn Holmsten
Bass - Ted Strom
Guitar - Lorne DeWolfe
Vocals, Drums - Leif ''Smulte'' Reinholds*
Written-By - Reinholds*
A6 Vagen Gick Vindlande Gra
Drums - Leif Reinholds
Flute - Bjorn Holmsten
Guitar [First] - Lorne DeWolfe
Music By - DeWolfe*
Music By, Lyrics By - Strom*
Organ, Guitar - Ted Strom
Violin - Bosse Linne
Vocals, Bass - Ted Steerling
B1 Minnen
Bass - Lorne DeWolfe
Drums - Leif Reinholds
Organ - Ted Strom
Violin - Bosse Linne , Claes Palmquist
Vocals - Bankpersonal I Vaxholm
Vocals, Piano - Ted Steerling
Written-By - Steerling*
B2 Hon Kom Over Mon
Bass - Tomas Larsson
Drums [Mo-trummor] - Leif Reinholds
Guitar - Ted Steerling
Saxophone [Alto] - Bjorn Holmsten
Violin - Skaggsmanlaget
Vocals, Guitar - Ted Strom
Written-By - Strom*
B3 Vargarnas Natt
Bass - Lorne DeWolfe
Drums - Leif Reinholds
Guitar, Vocals - Ted Steerling
Violin - Bosse Linne , Claes Palmquist
Vocals, Organ - Ted Strom
Written-By - Strom*
B4 Samma Vindar, Samma Dofter
Bass - Ted Steerling
Clarinet - Bjorn Holmsten
Drums, Temple Block [Tempelblock] - Leif Reinholds
Violin - Bosse Linne
Vocals, Piano - Ted Strom
Written-By - Strom*
B5 Jass
Bass - Lorne DeWolfe
Drums - Leif Reinholds
Piano - Ted Steerling
Saxophone [Alto] - Bjorn Holmsten
Violin - Claes Palmquist
Violin, Violin [Over Leslie] - Bosse Linne
Written-By - Steerling*