Tim: I saw this shared on Twitter recently; until then I had never heard of them, but I think this is most definitely worth a mention, because it’s fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMRzgyLY3c0
Tom: Some old school disco! I’ve not heard it before, but I can only describe that beat as righteous.
Tim: First, the song: I think it’s lovely that this bad wrote a song dedicated to a postman.
Tom: The Carpenters did the same thing, but with significantly less funk.
Tim: Second, the band: well, according to their biography on Spotify, these guys (from Sweden in the early 1980s, incidentally) have quite a distinguished background – they wrote a few Melodifestivalen entries, though nothing that won, then decided to go into the singing business. Multiple Europe-wide hits, including their first release, 1979’s Oh Susie, this one from 1980, and their biggest hit, 1982’s Flash in the Night.
They split in 1987 and the lead singer, Ola Håkansson, became part of a song writing team known as Norell Oson Bard, who then wrote all sorts of songs. (‘Bard’, by the way, is the same Alexander Bard who would later be in BWO and Gravitonas.)
Tom: And so it all becomes interconnected. If you have that urge to write music, then a band breaking up won’t stop you – you’ll just form a new one.
Tim: Absolutely. And that, children, is this weekend’s musical education and message. Wasn’t it fun?