Miss Mac Baren
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Stockholm
| "Miss Mac Baren" | ||||
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| Single by Tages | ||||
| B-side | "Get Up An' Get Goin'" | |||
| Released | 28 November 1966 | |||
| Recorded | 22 November 1966 | |||
| Studio | Europafilm Studios, Stockholm | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:20 | |||
| Label | Platina | |||
| Songwriters | ||||
| Producer | Anders Henriksson | |||
| Tages singles chronology | ||||
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"Miss Mac Baren" is a song by the Swedish rock band Tages, released as a single in November 1966.[1] It was written by all five members of the group[2] and was recorded during the sessions for their third studio album, Extra Extra, but was ultimately excluded from it.[3] The B-side, "Get Up An' Get Goin'", was however included as the fourth track on the album.[4] "Miss Mac Baren" got its first album release on Tages Hits Vol. 3, a compilation album released in August 1967.[5]
The song originated during the band's Scandinavian tour. After a show in Odense, Denmark,[6] they were phoned by their record label, Platina Records, and told that they needed a title for their next single so that they could have the sleeve printed.[7] The band was unsure of what to record until they were sitting at a bar and guitarist Danne Larsson spotted an ad for Mac Baren Tobacco, which inspired the title.[7]
The band subsequently wrote the rest of the song on a tour bus in Southern Sweden during their way home from Denmark. According to vocalist Tommy Blom, it was partly inspired by a currently unidentified Finnish rock group which Tages had heard the previous year during a tour.[7] Once they returned to Stockholm, they recorded the song in Europafilm Studio in Solna on 22 November 1966.[7][8] The unusual sound used at the beginning and end of the song was conceived by Blom, who crawled inside a grand piano and played it with a pick.[7]
"Miss Mac Baren" was released as a single on 28 November 1966, a release that coincided with their third studio album Extra Extra.[9] It instantly became a chart hit, reaching number one on Kvällstoppen in the early weeks of 1967 (becoming their second to do so, after "In My Dreams"), and number four on Tio i Topp.[10][11] The B-Side, "Get Up An' Get Goin'", was written by Anders Henriksson and Thorstein Bergmanunder under the pseudonyms F. Akon and F. Thokon.[12]