Tages discography
{{short description|Cataloguing of published recordings by Tages}}
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|Artist=Tages
|Image=Sleep Little Girl Tages.jpg
|alt=The members of Swedish pop band Tages pose with a vinyl single copy of their debut single "Sleep Little Girl", released in 1964.|Caption=Tages posing with a copy of their debut single "Sleep Little Girl" (1964)
|Studio=6
|Live=1
|Compilation=16
|EP=6
|Singles=30
|Option name=Blond
}}
Tages were a Swedish rock band from Gothenburg formed in 1963 by vocalist Tommy Blom, rhythm guitarist Danne Larsson, lead guitarist Anders Töpel, bass guitarist Göran Lagerberg and drummer Freddie Skantze.{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|pp=10–19}} During their seven year tenure, they released six studio albums, three compilation albums, five extended plays and 26 singles in Sweden.{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|pp=281–291}} Between November 1964 and April 1968, Tages were considered one of the four most popular bands in Sweden,{{Cite news |last=Amster |first=Harry |date=14 August 2016 |title="Mick Jagger sjöng i minikalsonger" |trans-title=Mick Jagger Sung in Mini-Boxers |url=https://www.svd.se/a/BwPRg/mick-jagger-sjong-i-minikalsonger |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250221223818/https://www.svd.se/a/BwPRg/mick-jagger-sjong-i-minikalsonger |archive-date=21 February 2025 |access-date=21 February 2025 |work=Svenska Dagbladet |language=sv}}{{Cite news |last=Gometz |first=Lotta |date=13 October 2015 |title=Hyllning till ett musikaliskt 60-talsfenomen |trans-title=Tribute to a Musical Phenomenon of the 60s |url=https://www.vt.se/kultur/musik/artikel/hyllning-till-ett-musikaliskt-60-talsfenomen/rkgn0pmj |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250221223957/https://www.vt.se/kultur/musik/artikel/hyllning-till-ett-musikaliskt-60-talsfenomen/rkgn0pmj |archive-date=21 February 2025 |access-date=21 February 2025 |work=Västerviks-Tidningen |language=sv}}{{Refn|Together with the Hep Stars, Ola and the Janglers and the Shanes|group=nb}} with 13 of their singles reaching the top 10 of the national record chart Tio i Topp including two number one singles.{{Sfn|Hallberg|Henningsson|2012|p=370}}{{Refn|Tages placed an additional five singles in the top 20.{{Sfn|Hallberg|Henningsson|2012|p=370}}|group=nb}} The band also released a string of commercially successful studio albums, with two of them, Tages (1965) and Tages 2 (1966), selling over 10,000 copies each in Sweden, enough for them to be certified gold.{{Cite news |last=Anon. |date=7 January 1966 |title=Tages tar emot guldskiva |trans-title=Tages Will Receive Gold Record |url=https://tidningar.kb.se/2bxv22cx0w5h20nz |url-access=limited |access-date=21 February 2025 |work=Göteborgsposten |page=15 |language=sv |via=National Library of Sweden}}{{Cite news |last=Anon. |date=26 November 1966 |title=Tages tar emot andra guldskivan |trans-title=Tages Receive Second Gold Record |url=https://tidningar.kb.se/w5rqmqsttvvpbhld |url-access=limited |access-date=21 February 2025 |work=Arbetet |page=8 |language=sv |via=National Library of Sweden}}{{Cite news |last=Anon. |date=26 November 1966 |title=Tages tar hem guld på Gyllene Freden |trans-title=Tages Receive Gold at Gyllene Freden |url=https://tidningar.kb.se/2ldhs58d1nlcdsg |url-access=limited |access-date=21 February 2025 |work=Aftonbladet |page=18 |language=sv |via=National Library of Sweden}} Towards the end of the 1960s, Tages' popularity started diminishing, and they charted their final top 10 single in April 1968.{{Sfn|Hallberg|Henningsson|2012|p=461}} Lead vocalist Blom left the band at the end of their folkpark tour in August 1968.{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=217}}{{Sfn|Larkin|1998|p=5281}} The group continued on as a quartet, with the group's sixth studio album and final five singles being released under the name Blond,{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|pp=235, 302}} a name which was chosen by the band's management who believed it to be more internationally viable.{{Cite web |last=Unterberger |first=Richie |author-link=Richie Unterberger |title=Blond Biography by Richie Unterberger |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/blond-mn0002285488 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406091044/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/blond-mn0002285488 |archive-date=6 April 2023 |access-date=21 February 2025 |publisher=AllMusic}}{{Sfn|Wrigholm|1991}} They broke up during the summer of 1970 after several personnel changes.{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=251}}
Tages' first 10 singles and three studio albums were released in Sweden by Platina Records, an independent record label founded by Evert Jakobsson.{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=36}}{{Cite web |last=Sandberg |first=Peter |date=27 June 2018 |title=Den svenska skivindustrin |trans-title=The Swedish Record Industry |url=https://www.foretagskallan.se/foretagskallan-nyheter/lektionsmaterial/den-svenska-skivindustrin/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241204032400/https://www.foretagskallan.se/foretagskallan-nyheter/lektionsmaterial/den-svenska-skivindustrin/ |archive-date=4 December 2024 |access-date=22 February 2025 |website=Företagskällan |language=sv}} The band had signed a contract with the label in September 1964.{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=36}} Platina was distributed by EMI Records starting in 1965,{{Sfn|Wrigholm|1991}} causing singles by Tages released in the UK during this time period to appear on several EMI sublabels, including Columbia and His Master's Voice.{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=298}} Tages founded their own publishing company, Segat AB, during the spring of 1966,{{sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=101}}{{Refn|The company name is an anadrome; it is "Tages" spelled backwards.{{sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=101}}|group=nb}} which ensured that "income reached the right [band members'] pockets", contrary to many other publishing companies during the 1960s.{{Sfn|Wrigholm|1991}} Platina's contract with Tages expired on New Year's Day 1967, upon which they opted to sign a contract with Parlophone instead.{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=152}}{{Sfn|Larkin|1998|p=5281}} This caused Jakobsson to issue archival material by Tages on Platina concurrently to their new releases on Parlophone in an act of retaliation.{{sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|pp=151–153}} In preparation for a potential international breakthrough, Tages' new manager Richard-Reese Edwards got the band signed to Fontana Records, negotiating an advance of $50,000 {{USDCY|50000|1969}}, a sum previously unheard of by a Swedish pop group.{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=233}}
Starting with two unauthorized albums compiled by Jakobsson during the 1960s,{{sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|pp=151–153}} Tages' music has been collected on several compilation albums.{{Sfn|Larkin|1998|p=5281}} As the band's masters were owned by three separate record labels, the band's early compilation albums were restricted to the material each label had the rights to.{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=291}} In 1983, Jakobsson licensed an album's worth of his Tages Platina masters to EMI, who were putting together the compilation album Tages, 1964-68!{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=291}} Later during the 1980s, Sven-Åke Peterson of EMI negotiated with Jakobsson, purchasing the masters from him.{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=279}} In 1994, the 3-CD career-spanning box set This One's For You was released, containing almost every recording by Tages under that name.{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=279}} The Blond recordings are still owned by Universal Music Group,{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=279}} who issued all of their material with the band on the 2003 reissue of The Lilac Years.{{Sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=308}}
Studio albums
=Studio albums=
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= Live albums =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+{{sronly|List of live albums}} ! width="30" scope="col" |Year ! scope="col" style="width:12em;" |Title ! scope="col" style="width:15em;" |Album details |
| scope="row" |1999
|Live At Last{{Efn|Recorded live on 11 November 1965 at Radiohuset, Stockholm and 9 August 1966 for Opopoppa on Sveriges Radio P3{{sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=306}}|group=upper-alpha}} |
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= Compilation albums =
Notes
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EPs
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+List of Swedish EPs with selected chart positions !width="30" rowspan="2" scope="col" |Year ! rowspan="2" scope="col" style="width:15em;" | Title ! rowspan="2" scope="col" style="width:15em;" | EP details ! scope="colgroup" | Peak chart positions |
| scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | SWE (Kvällstoppen){{Sfn|Hallberg|1993|p=252}} |
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| scope="rowgroup" | 1965
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|2{{Efn|The EP's lead single "Don't Turn Your Back" reached number two on Kvällstoppen.{{sfn|Hallberg|1993|p=252}}|group=upper-alpha}} |
| scope="rowgroup" | 1965
|Sleep Little Girl |
|3{{Efn|The EP's lead single "Sleep Little Girl" reached number three on Kvällstoppen.{{sfn|Hallberg|1993|p=252}}|group=upper-alpha|name=Lead Single}} |
| rowspan="3" scope="rowgroup" | 1967
|Tages-Hits Vol. 1{{Efn|Unauthorized release by Platina Records after Tages signed with Parlophone Records in January 1967{{sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|pp=151–153}}|group=upper-alpha|name=Unauthorized2}} | |3{{Efn|group=upper-alpha|name=Lead Single}} |
| Tages-Hits Vol. 2{{Efn|name=Unauthorized2|group=upper-alpha}}
| |1{{Efn|The EP's lead single "In My Dreams" reached number one on Kvällstoppen.{{sfn|Hallberg|1993|p=252}}|group=upper-alpha}} |
| Tages-Hits Vol. 3{{Efn|name=Unauthorized2|group=upper-alpha}}
| |1{{Efn|The EP's lead single "Miss Mac Baren" reached number one on Kvällstoppen.{{sfn|Hallberg|1993|p=252}}|group=upper-alpha}} |
| scope="rowgroup" | 2012
|Live And Jealous{{Efn|Bonus EP that accompanied the book Boken om Tages: Från Avenyn till Abbey Road.{{Cite web |date=2012 |title= Live and jealous / Tages |url=https://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/002888107 |access-date=21 February 2025 |publisher=Svensk mediedatabas |language=sv}} Contains two live performances recorded on 11 November 1965 and two studio recordings that had appeared on Tages 2 (1966) and Studio (1967), respectively.{{sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=289}}|group=upper-alpha}} |
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| colspan="4" style="font-size:90%" |"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
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Singles
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ {{sronly|List of singles, with selected chart positions and certifications}} !width="30" scope="col" rowspan="2"|Year !width="450" scope="col" rowspan="2"|Single details{{Efn|Most of Tages' Swedish single pressings were exported across the Nordic countries, thus only pressings stemming from different countries will be noted.{{sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|pp=296–297}}|group=upper-alpha}} ! colspan="4" width="200" scope="colgroup" |Peak chart positions !width="150" scope="col" rowspan="2"|Album or EP |
| scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | SWE
(Kvällstoppen) ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | SWE (Tio i Topp) ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | FIN ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | DEN |
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| scope="rowgroup" |1964
|"Sleep Little Girl"
|align="center"|3 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |{{N/A|non-album single}}{{efn|group=upper-alpha|"Sleep Little Girl" was eventually re-recorded for the album Tages.{{sfn|Wrigholm|1991}}}} |
| rowspan="4" scope="rowgroup" |1965
|"I Should Be Glad"
| align="center" |2 | align="center" |2 | align="center" |37 | align="center" |— |{{N/A|non-album single}} |
| "Don't Turn Your Back" b/w "Hound Dog" (from Tages)
|align="center"|2 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |Tages (EP) |
| "The One for You" b/w "I Got My Mojo Working" (from Tages)
|align="center"|6 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— | rowspan="2" |Tages (album) |
| "Bloodhound" b/w "Whatcha Gonna Do About It"
|align="center"|3 |align="center"|6 |align="center"|40 |align="center"|— |
| scope="rowgroup" rowspan="6" |1966
|"So Many Girls"
|align="center"|5 |align="center"|4 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |{{N/A|non-album single}} |
| "I'll Be Doggone" b/w "Hitch Hike"
|align="center"|10 |align="center"|7 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |{{N/A|non-album single}} |
| "I'm The Man You'll Be Lookin' For" b/w "Leaving Here" (from Tages 2)
|align="center"|x |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |{{N/A|non-album single}}{{efn|group=upper-alpha|"The Man You'll Be Looking For" was initially issued in Sweden on a free flexi disc that came with the 2 March 1966 issue of teen magazine Bildjournalen.{{Cite magazine |author=Anon. |date=2 March 1966 |title=Det ligger en TOPPSKIVA i tidningen! |trans-title=There Is A TOP DISC In The Magazine! |magazine=Bildjournalen |language=sv |publication-place=Front cover}}{{sfn|Wiremark|1994a|p=25}}}} |
| "In My Dreams" b/w "Leaving Here" (from Tages 2)
|align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|39 |align="center"|— |rowspan="2" |Tages 2 |
| "Crazy 'Bout My Baby" b/w "In My Dreams" (UK), "Go" (SE) (Both from Tages 2)
|align="center"|16 |align="center"|15 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |
| "Miss Mac Baren" b/w "Get Up An' Get Goin'" (from Extra Extra)
|align="center"|1 |align="center"|4 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |{{N/A|non-album single}} |
| rowspan="10" scope="rowgroup" |1967 |
| "Secret Room" b/w "Friday on My Mind" (from Extra Extra)
|align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |
| "Every Raindrop Means Alot" b/w "Look What You Get"
|align="center"|4 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— | rowspan="2" |Contrast |
| "I'm Going Out" b/w "Fuzzy Patterns" (from Contrast)
|align="center"|3 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|— |align="center"|4 |
| "Gone Too Far" b/w "Understanding" (from Extra Extra)
|align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |Extra Extra |
| "She's Having A Baby Now" b/w "Sister's Got A Boyfriend" (from Contrast)
|align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |
| "One Red, One Yellow, One Blue" b/w "True Fine Woman" (from Extra Extra)
|align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |Extra Extra |
| "Treat Her Like A Lady" b/w "Wanting" (from Contrast)
|align="center"|7 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|— |align="center"|6 |{{N/A|non-album single}} |
| "Dancing in the Street" b/w "Those Rumours" (from Tages 2)
|align="center"|— |align="center"|15 |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |Tages 2 |
| "Mohair Sam" b/w "Ride Your Pony" (from Extra Extra)
|align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |Extra Extra |
| rowspan="6" scope="rowgroup" |1968 |
| "There's a Blind Man Playin' Fiddle in the Street" b/w "Like a Woman" (from Studio)
|align="center"|— |align="center"|10 |align="center"|— |align="center"|20 |{{N/A|non-album single}} |
| "Fantasy Island" b/w "To Be Free"
|align="center"|— |align="center"|14 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |{{N/A|non-album single}} |
| "Doctor Feel-Good" b/w "Dimples" (from Tages)
|align="center"|x |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |Tages (album) |
| "House of Soul Hill" b/w "Sister's Got a Boyfriend" (from Contrast)
|align="center"|x |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |Contrast |
| "I Read You Like an Open Book" b/w "Halcyon Days"
|align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |{{N/A|non-album single}} |
| rowspan="5" scope="rowgroup" |1969 |
| "I Wake Up and Call"{{Efn|As Blond{{sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=303}}|group=upper-alpha}} b/w "(I Will Bring You) Flowers in the Morning" (UK), "The Girl I Once Had" (SE) (Both from The Lilac Years)
|align="center"|— |align="center"|14 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— | rowspan="4" |The Lilac Years |
| "The Lilac Years (de Sålde Sina Hemman)"{{Efn|As Blond{{sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=302}}|group=upper-alpha}} b/w "Six White Horses" (from The Lilac Years) |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |
| "Deep Inside My Heart"{{Efn|As Blond{{sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=304}}|group=upper-alpha}} b/w "(I Will Bring You) Flowers In The Morning" (from The Lilac Years)
|align="center"|x |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |
| "I Pick Up The Bus"{{Efn|As Blond{{sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=305}}|group=upper-alpha}} b/w "Six White Horses" (from The Lilac Years)
|align="center"|x |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |align="center"|x |
| scope="rowgroup" |1970
|"Lost Child"{{Efn|As Blond{{sfn|Brandels|Wrigholm|2012|p=302}}|group=upper-alpha}}
|align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |{{N/A|non-album single}} |
| colspan="8" style="font-size:90%" align="center" |"—" denotes releases that did not chart. "x" denotes single not released in that territory. |
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References
= Footnotes =
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= Citations =
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= Sources =
- {{Cite book |last1=Brandels |first1=Göran |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gJ2wmAEACAAJ |title=Boken om Tages: från Avenyn till Abbey Road |last2=Wrigholm |first2=Lennart |publisher=Premium Publishing |year=2012 |isbn=978-91-89136-88-5 |location=Stockholm |language=sv |trans-title=The Book About Tages: From Avenyn to Abbey Road |access-date=21 February 2025 |via=Google Books}}
- {{Cite book |last=Hallberg |first=Eric |title=Eric Hallberg presenterar Kvällstoppen i P3 |publisher=Drift |year=1993 |isbn=9-789-16-302-14-04 |edition=1st |location=Stockholm |trans-title=Eric Hallberg Presents Kvällstoppen on P3}}
- {{Cite book |last1=Hallberg |first1=Eric |title=Tio i Topp - med de utslagna "på försök" 1961–74 |last2=Henningsson |first2=Ulf |publisher=Premium |year=2012 |isbn=978-91-89136-89-2 |edition=2nd |location=Stockholm |language=sv |trans-title=Tio I Topp With The Eliminated On Try 1961–1974}}
- {{Cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-19-531373-4 |edition=3rd |location=Oxford |trans-title=Eric Hallberg Presents Kvällstoppen on P3|author-link=Colin Larkin|volume=7|access-date=22 February 2025|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo07lark|via=Internet Archive}}
- {{cite book |last=Nyman |first=Jake |title=Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja |publisher=Tammi |year=2005 |isbn=978-951-31-2503-5 |location=Helsinki |language=fi}}
- {{Cite AV media |url= |title=Don't Turn Your Back |date=1994a |last=Wiremark |first=Kjell |type=CD |publisher=Parlophone Records |place=Sweden |access-date= |id=7243 4751392 3}}
- {{Cite AV media |url= |title=In My Dreams |date=1994b |last=Wiremark |first=Kjell |type=CD |publisher=Parlophone Records |place=Sweden |access-date= |id=7243 4751402 9}}
- {{Cite AV media |url= |title=Fantasy Island |date=1994c |last=Wiremark |first=Kjell |type=CD |publisher=Parlophone Records |place=Sweden |access-date= |id=7243 4751412 8}}
- {{Cite magazine |last=Wrigholm |first=Lennart |date=1991 |title=Tages: Makalös grej i Götet… |trans-title=Tages: Amazing Thing in Gothenburg... |url=https://www.blaskoteket.se/artiklar/now-then/1991-4-now-then/tages-makalos-grej-i-gotet/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241211195516/https://www.blaskoteket.se/artiklar/now-then/1991-4-now-then/tages-makalos-grej-i-gotet/ |archive-date=11 December 2024 |access-date=21 February 2025 |magazine=Now & Then |language=sv |via=Blaskoteket |issue=4}}
External links
- {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=mn0000155257|title=Tages}}
- {{Discogs artist|361668|Tages}}
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