Som jag är

Som Jag Är
Studio album by Agnetha Fältskog
Released	1970
Recorded	1970
Genre	Pop
Length	36:37
Label	CBS Cupol (CLPN 345)
Producer	Björn Ulvaeus, Karl Gerhard Lundkvist
Agnetha Fältskog chronology
Agnetha Fältskog Vol. 2 (1969) Som jag är (1970) När en vacker tanke blir en sång (1971)
Singles from Som jag är
"Om tårar vore guld" Released: March 1970 "Ta det bara med ro" Released: 1970

Som jag är (As I Am) is the third solo album by Swedish pop singer and ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog, released in late 1970.

Album Information

The album was co-produced by Little Gerhard (Karl-Gerhard Lundqvist) and Agnetha's boyfriend at the time, Björn Ulvaeus. Recording took place in January 1970 ("Om tårar vore guld") as well as September and October of the same year. All songs were recorded in Metronome Studios, Stockholm.

Just like on her second album, two of the songs were composed by Agnetha herself ("Om tårar vore guld" and "Jag skall göra allt"), while she wrote the Swedish lyrics to a couple of cover versions. "Jag skall göra allt" was recorded in German as "Tausend Wunder" (Thousand Wonders).

The best known track is "Om tårar vore guld", a Svensktoppen top 3 hit, which was also released as the first single from the album. The song can be regarded as one of her most successful numbers in Sweden before the ABBA period and it was also a highlight in the set of her folk park tour in the summer of 1970. This was in spite of a claim from a Danish composer that she had used 22 bars from his composition "Tema", even though this had been written in the 1950s and had never been recorded. The case dragged on until 1977, when a settlement was reached and Fältskog paid the Dane SEK 5,000.

The album has since been re-issued both on CD and iTunes.

Track listing

Singles

Single sleeve for "Om tårar vore guld"

Single sleeve for "Ta det bara med ro"

Altogether three singles (one of which being just a promo-single for radio) were released off Agnetha's third album. None of them charted on the official Swedish sales chart Kvällstoppen. The first single, "Om tårar vore guld", features a cover version of "Little Altar Boy" on its b-side, titled "Litet Solskensbarn" (Little Child Of The Sun). The song was recorded together with "Om tårar vore guld" in early 1970, but subsequently left off the album.

Svensktoppen

Two tracks from "Som jag är" appeared on the important Swedish radio chart Svensktoppen, "Om tårar vore guld" being the most successful, reaching the top 3 and eventually staying on the chart for 15 weeks in the spring of 1970.^[1]

References

• booklet, Agnetha Fältskog: Agnetha Fältskog De Första Åren
• http://www.agnetha.net/AGNETHA.html