| BAO 3 | ||||
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| Studio album by Benny Anderssons Orkester | ||||
| Released | October 24, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2007 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 44:47 | |||
| Label | Mono Music, (MMCD 023) | |||
| Producer | Benny Andersson | |||
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BAO 3 is a studio album by Swedish folk-group Benny Anderssons Orkester, released on October 24, 2007. Its the group's third studio album and their forth release in total.[1]
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Being a typical Benny Anderssons Orkester album, "BAO 3" (the title indicates that it's the third BAO album) includes many different musical styles, ranging from Swedish folk music to pop, jazz, classical tunes and viennese influences. The album is officially credited to "Benny Anderssons Orkester, Helen Sjöholm & Tommy Körberg", indicating that it also includes several tracks with vocals. In fact, compared to its studio predecessor, BAO! in 2004, the amount of vocals tracks has increased. No less than seven out of the 12 tracks on the album are sung by either Helen Sjöholm or Tommy Körberg or as a duet. Tommy Körberg can be heard on a BAO studio album for the first time , after already appearing together with the group during their tours and also lending vocals to two tracks on Benny Andersson's two solo albums from the 1980s, Klinga mina klockor and November 1989.
As usual, most of the lyrics were written by Benny's former ABBA partner Björn Ulvaeus, while all the music was composed by Benny Andersson himself.
"BAO 3" was recorded in Sveriges Radios Studio 5 and Atlantis Studio, both in Stockholm, during 2007. Like all Benny Anderssons Orkester albums, it was engineered by Bernard Löhr und subsequently mixed by him and Benny Andersson at Mono Music Studio.
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"BAO 3" could not achieve the same success as the group's other two studio albums, which both topped the Swedish Albums Chart an stayed on the chart for 55 weeks. Nevertheless, "BAO 3" entered the charts on November 1, reached the top 3 and also managed to collect a Gold disc during its 34 week chart run.[2]
It is interesting to note that "BAO 3" is the first and to date also last album by the group to be released in autumn, namely October. All their other albums were released in late spring and early summer, either in May, June or July. And because Benny Anderssons Orkester is also famous for its summer tours, the band and its music is strongly connected with this time of the year. So the album's disabilty to sell as well as Benny Anderssons Orkester and BAO! could be linked to this rather unusual release date.
Due to Helen Sjöholm giving birth to her first child, Benny Anderssons Orkester did not tour in 2007. Instead, they performed two concerts in Stockholm and Gotheburg to promote the album. Contrary to their summer tours, the venues were not the usual small open-air stages, but rather big concert halls, like the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, where they played in front of 6,000 people.
Two big Svensktoppen hits were released from "BAO 3". "Fait Accomplit", with lyrics by Björn Ulvaeus and vocals by Tommy Körberg, entered the radio chart on December 1 and venetually topped the list for 11 weeks in early 2008. In the summer of the same year, the Helen Sjöholm and Tommy Körberg duet "Nu mår jag mycket bättre" became a top 5 hit on Svensktoppen. The lyrics for this song were written by Swedish poet and dramatist Kristina Lugn. It is interesting to note that by this time, Benny Anderssons Orkester's monster hit "Du är min man" was still going strong on Svensktoppen, albeit already being four years old, and eventually outliving both tracks by far.[3]
All music composed by Benny Andersson.
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| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Vocalist | Length | ||||
| 1. | "Marsch pannkaka" | Benny Andersson | 3:39 | ||||||
| 2. | "För dig" | Björn Ulvaeus | Benny Andersson | Helen Sjöholm, Tommy Körberg | 3:49 | ||||
| 3. | "Du frälste mig i sista stund" | Björn Ulvaeus | Benny Andersson | Helen Sjöholm | 3:57 | ||||
| 4. | "Fait Accomplit" | Björn Ulvaeus | Benny Andersson | Tommy Körberg | 4:00 | ||||
| 5. | "Crush On You" | Björn Ulvaeus | Benny Andersson | Helen Sjöholm, Tommy Körberg | 3:38 | ||||
| 6. | "Calle J:s vals" | Benny Andersson | 2:53 | ||||||
| 7. | "Helens brudvals" | Benny Andersson | 3:13 | ||||||
| 8. | "Upp till dig" | Björn Ulvaeus | Benny Andersson | Helen Sjöholm | 4:03 | ||||
| 9. | "Bonde söker fru" | Björn Ulvaeus | Benny Andersson | Tommy Körberg | 3:04 | ||||
| 10. | "Nu mår jag mycket bättre" | Kristina Lugn | Benny Andersson | Helen Sjöholm, Tommy Körberg | 5:00 | ||||
| 11. | "Wienerbrot" | Benny Andersson | 3:37 | ||||||
| 12. | "Godnattvisa" | Benny Andersson | 3:48 | ||||||
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44:47 | ||||||||
The following musicians appear on "BAO 3":[5]