Tages discography
Cataloguing of published recordings by Tages
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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.[1] During their seven year tenure, they released six studio albums, three compilation albums, five extended plays and 26 singles in Sweden.[2] Between November 1964 and April 1968, Tages were considered one of the four most popular bands in Sweden,[3][4][nb 1] with 13 of their singles reaching the top 10 of the national record chart Tio i Topp including two number one singles.[5][nb 2] 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.[6][7][8] Towards the end of the 1960s, Tages' popularity started diminishing, and they charted their final top 10 single in April 1968.[9] Lead vocalist Blom left the band at the end of their folkpark tour in August 1968.[10][11] The group continued on as a quartet, with the group's sixth studio album and final five singles being released under the name Blond,[12] a name which was chosen by the band's management who believed it to be more internationally viable.[13][14] They broke up during the summer of 1970 after several personnel changes.[15]
| Tages discography | |
|---|---|
Tages posing with a copy of their debut single "Sleep Little Girl" (1964) | |
| Studio albums | 6 |
| EPs | 6 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 16 |
| Singles | 30 |
Tages' first 10 singles and three studio albums were released in Sweden by Platina Records, an independent record label founded by Evert Jakobsson.[16][17] The band had signed a contract with the label in September 1964.[16] Platina was distributed by EMI Records starting in 1965,[14][17] 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.[18] Tages founded their own publishing company, Segat AB, during the spring of 1966,[19][nb 3] which ensured that "income reached the right [band members'] pockets", contrary to many other publishing companies during the 1960s.[14] Platina's contract with Tages expired on New Year's Day 1967, upon which they opted to sign a contract with Parlophone instead.[20][11] This caused Jakobsson to issue archival material by Tages on Platina concurrently to their new releases on Parlophone in an act of retaliation.[21] 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 ($438,975 in 2025), a sum previously unheard of by a Swedish pop group.[22]
Starting with two unauthorized albums compiled by Jakobsson during the 1960s,[21] Tages' music has been collected on several compilation albums.[11] 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.[23] 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![24][23] Later during the 1980s, Sven-Åke Peterson of EMI negotiated with Jakobsson, purchasing the masters from him.[25] 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.[25] The Blond recordings are still owned by Universal Music Group,[25] who issued all of their material with the band on the 2003 reissue of The Lilac Years.[26]
Studio albums
Studio albums
| Year | Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish release[A] | NOR [28][B] |
FIN [30] | ||
| 1965 | Tages | × | 3 | |
| 1966 | Tages 2[D] |
|
× | — |
| Extra Extra |
|
20 | — | |
| 1967 | Contrast |
|
— | — |
| Studio |
|
— | — | |
| 1969 | The Lilac Years[E] | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. "×" denotes the chart did not exist yet. | ||||
Notes
Live albums
Notes
- Recorded live on 11 November 1965 at Radiohuset, Stockholm and 9 August 1966 for Opopoppa on Sveriges Radio P3[42]
Compilation albums
| Decade | Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE [43] | |||
| 1960s | The Best Of Tages[A] | — | |
| Forget Him[A] |
|
— | |
| Good Old Tages | — | ||
| 1970s | Tages Favoritter | × | |
| 1980s | Tages, 1964-68![D] |
|
— |
| Tages Bästa![E] |
|
— | |
| 1990s | Hep Stars! Tages! Shanes![F] |
|
— |
| This One's For You![G] |
|
— | |
| Don't Turn Your Back[G] |
|
— | |
| In My Dreams[G] |
|
— | |
| Fantasy Island[G] |
|
— | |
| Tages Bästa | — | ||
| 2000s | The Collection[H] |
|
× |
| Diamanter[I] |
|
— | |
| 2010s | Original Album Serien[J] | 53 | |
| Go! The Complete Singles | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. "x" denotes album not released in that territory. | |||
Notes
- Released as part of the EMI compilation series A-Sidor, Några B-Sidor, LP-Spår & Lite Annat! which included albums by Hep Stars, Ola and the Janglers and the Shanes[48]
EPs
| Year | Title | EP details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE (Kvällstoppen)[60] | |||
| 1965 | Tages | 2[A] | |
| 1965 | Sleep Little Girl |
|
3[B] |
| 1967 | Tages-Hits Vol. 1[C] |
|
3[B] |
| Tages-Hits Vol. 2[C] |
|
1[D] | |
| Tages-Hits Vol. 3[C] |
|
1[E] | |
| 2012 | Live And Jealous[F] |
|
— |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||
Notes
- The EP's lead single "Don't Turn Your Back" reached number two on Kvällstoppen.[60]
- The EP's lead single "Sleep Little Girl" reached number three on Kvällstoppen.[60]
- The EP's lead single "In My Dreams" reached number one on Kvällstoppen.[60]
- The EP's lead single "Miss Mac Baren" reached number one on Kvällstoppen.[60]
Singles
| Year | Single details[A] | Peak chart positions | Album or EP | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE | SWE (Tio i Topp) [5] |
FIN [30] |
DEN [67] | ||||
| 1964 | "Sleep Little Girl" b/w "Tell Me You're Mine" |
3 | 1 | — | — | non-album single[C] | |
| 1965 | "I Should Be Glad" b/w "I Cry" |
2 | 2 | 37 | — | non-album single | |
| "Don't Turn Your Back" b/w "Hound Dog" (from Tages) |
2 | 2 | — | — | Tages (EP) | ||
| "The One for You" b/w "I Got My Mojo Working" (from Tages) |
6 | 2 | — | — | Tages (album) | ||
| "Bloodhound" b/w "Whatcha Gonna Do About It"
|
3 | 6 | 40 | — | |||
| 1966 | "So Many Girls" b/w "I'm Mad"
|
5 | 4 | — | — | non-album single | |
| "I'll Be Doggone" b/w "Hitch Hike" |
10 | 7 | — | — | non-album single | ||
| "I'm The Man You'll Be Lookin' For" b/w "Leaving Here" (from Tages 2) |
x | x | x | x | non-album single[H] | ||
| "In My Dreams" b/w "Leaving Here" (from Tages 2) |
1 | 1 | 39 | — | Tages 2 | ||
| "Crazy 'Bout My Baby" b/w "In My Dreams" (UK), "Go" (SE) (Both from Tages 2) |
16 | 15 | — | — | |||
| "Miss Mac Baren" b/w "Get Up An' Get Goin'" (from Extra Extra) |
1 | 4 | — | — | non-album single | ||
| 1967 | |||||||
| "Secret Room" b/w "Friday on My Mind" (from Extra Extra) |
— | — | x | x | Extra Extra | ||
| " Every Raindrop Means A Lot" b/w "Look What You Get"
|
4 | 2 | — | — | Contrast | ||
| "I'm Going Out" b/w "Fuzzy Patterns" (from Contrast) |
3 | 2 | — | 4 | |||
| "Gone Too Far" b/w "Understanding" (from Extra Extra) |
— | — | x | x | Extra Extra | ||
| "She's Having A Baby Now" b/w "Sister's Got A Boyfriend" (from Contrast) |
— | — | — | — | Studio | ||
| "One Red, One Yellow, One Blue" b/w "True Fine Woman" (from Extra Extra) |
— | — | x | x | Extra Extra | ||
| "Treat Her Like A Lady" b/w "Wanting" (from Contrast) |
7 | 3 | — | 6 | non-album single | ||
| "Dancing in the Street" b/w "Those Rumours" (from Tages 2) |
— | 15 | x | x | Tages 2 | ||
| "Mohair Sam" b/w "Ride Your Pony" (from Extra Extra) |
— | — | x | x | Extra Extra | ||
| 1968 | |||||||
| "There's a Blind Man Playin' Fiddle in the Street" b/w "Like a Woman" (from Studio) |
— | 10 | — | 20 | non-album single | ||
| "Fantasy Island" b/w "To Be Free"
|
— | 14 | — | — | non-album single | ||
| "Doctor Feel-Good" b/w "Dimples" (from Tages) |
x | x | x | x | Tages (album) | ||
| "House of Soul Hill" b/w "Sister's Got a Boyfriend" (from Contrast) |
x | x | x | x | Contrast | ||
| "I Read You Like an Open Book" b/w "Halcyon Days" |
— | — | — | — | non-album single | ||
| 1969 | |||||||
| "I Wake Up and Call"[X] b/w "(I Will Bring You) Flowers in the Morning" (UK), "The Girl I Once Had" (SE) (Both from The Lilac Years) |
— | 14 | — | — | The Lilac Years | ||
| "The Lilac Years (de Sålde Sina Hemman)"[Z] b/w "Six White Horses" (from The Lilac Years)
|
— | — | — | — | |||
| "Deep Inside My Heart"[AA] b/w "(I Will Bring You) Flowers In The Morning" (from The Lilac Years)
|
x | x | x | x | |||
| "I Pick Up The Bus"[AB] b/w "Six White Horses" (from The Lilac Years) |
x | x | x | x | |||
| 1970 | "Lost Child"[AC] b/w "How Can I Pray If I Don't Believe (The Elephant)"
|
— | — | — | — | non-album single | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. "x" denotes single not released in that territory. | |||||||
Notes
- Most of Tages' Swedish single pressings were exported across the Nordic countries, thus only pressings stemming from different countries will be noted.[66]
- "Baldheaded Lena" debuted on the Kvällstoppen chart on June 28, 1966.[74]
- "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.[80][81]