The Shanes

The Shanes were in addition to the Hep Stars, the day and Ola & the Janglers one of the four dominant in Sweden in the 1960s pop groups. They were justified by Tor -Erik Rautio, Tommy Wåhlberg, Staffan Berggren and Svante Elfgren. In the fall of 1964 came Lennart Grahn of the Marshalls in Luleå this. The name was - according to legend - of a film role name of John Wayne ( Shane, 1953) accepted. The Shanes were located in the far north of the country in Kiruna.

The first plate was in the spring of 1963, the instrumental single Gunfight Saloon (B-side: The Ripper ), which made ​​it after a short time in both national radio hit lists ( " Tio i Topp ", " Kvällstoppen " ), but only for just one week. With the Singel Let Me Show You Who I Am The Shanes 1964 came the first time at number one of Tio i Topp. In the same year they released their first LP ( Let Us Show You ).

The real breakthrough came in 1965 with the change from the record company Odeon to Columbia and the appearance of an EP together with the Stockholm band Moonlighters. 1966 published six singles, including blues feeling and Hi- Lili, Hi -Lo, which could be placed in both the Tio i Topp and in Kvällstoppen. Other successes joined in the following years, partly recorded in the EMI studio on Abbey Road in London ( including Chris-craft no 9 ).

Staffan Berggren, who until then had written most of the music, had to - because thought it was the other as too dominant - 1966 left the group. In its place came Kit Sundqvist, who also took over the role as songwriter. It met the group that four of its members were drafted into military service in 1967, and succeeded in the further course not, adapt to new musical tendencies, so they ended towards the end of the 1960s their activities.

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• Radionostalgi, 1950s/60s

• Pop band
• Swedish band