Lee Hazlewood Swedish TV special 1968/9

[stevej]

Whilst searching Youtube for something entirely different I found a Swedish TV music special from 1969 entitled 'Together', which it seems was their Montreux entry that year. From what I can gather it's a compilation, with several performances lifted in turn from a Lee Hazlewood tv special 'Love & Other Crimes' recorded the previous year. 'Together' has some real moments to treasure, kicking off with an arresting performance from the aptly named 'Made In Sweden', then moving seemlessly on to Miriam Makeba and some playful collaboration between Brazil's Elis Regina and Toots Thielemans. Lee Hazlewood revisits his 'Lee & Nancy' era duets very successfully with lovely Swedish singer Siw Malmkvist. And there's the engaging sight of a young lady go-go dancing to a very groovy 'High Heel Sneakers' sung by a smartly suited gent with a bongo penchant.

There seem to be plenty of good quality performances from 'Together' all over Youtube, making me wonder if it (or 'Love & Other Crimes') has ever been officially released- maybe as a bonus dvd disc on a Lee Hazlewood CD retrospective or similar. Extensive trawling the web has revealed no clues, so I thought it worth asking if anyone was aware of either show. A very long shot, but....

Link to the complete show:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzmaAbjzPko&t=0s

[stevehoare61]

I believe Steve, that in one of these episodes of Lee's, the group that became ABBA made their very first tv appearance, playing two tracks from the earliest album. Im of the opinion it has been wiped or lost, you havent seen it on your trawls through Utube have you? Swedish TV werent the best at knowing what they did have or didnt.

[stevej]

Hi Steve, all I've found so far on Youtube is a number of timecoded individual performances from 'Together' which are credited to 'Love And Other Crimes', so I'm guessing these were lifted from that into the 'Together' Montreux entry. I know Lee Hazlewood relocated to Sweden around 1969/70 and seemed to establish a good working relationship with Swedish tv, making the film 'Cowboy In Sweden' with them. This is an interesting curio in itself, featuring guest groups including The George Baker Selection miming to 'Little Green Bag' and also The Family Dogg with 'Sympathy'.

Whether there are any more Lee Hazlewood specials I don't know, as I've only learned the above info within the last week. I would have thought that with a group as popular as Abba that most of their early solo or group appearances would have been well known by now, but maybe that's not the case. I must admit the state of the Swedish tv archive has never crossed my mind before, but now I am interested! I gather there was only one station until 1969 and the advent of colour and a second station brought about rebranding as (gasp) TV1 and TV2. Stumbling across 'Together' has proved something of a musical revelation to me and as a consequence I have been prompted to hear more from artists I wasn't previously aware of. One of the joys of the internet!

Steve

[stevehoare61]

Thanks for that Steve. Unfortunately Swedish archives are almost as unreliable as ours, there are performances that we know of, but equally a lot of stuff we dont and that the group itself cant remembereither as they all had earlier solo successes.Good Luck.