BORDELLMAMMAS JULVISOR KONDOM 1 (-72) SWEDEN

After Johnny Bode's intitial domestic success with the "Brothel Madam" serie others tried to cash in on the hype by issuing albums with sexual content. This is one exemple (eng. "Brothel Madam's Christmas Carols"). From a combo including Lasse Holm - earlier known as "Larry Moon" in Swedish pop band The Moonlighters and later successful writer and performer of schlagers and dance band music - and Billy Gezon - former member of Jerry William's Violents and after this working with ABBA and Gimmicks. Female vocals by actresses from Stockholm City Theatre - remaining anonymous. The melodies are known christmas carols with specially written lyrics including the whole spectra of sexual slurs and humorous descriptions of christmassy sexual practices. It's well orchestrated and some of it clever, but lacking the feeling and ragged genious of Bode's own work. Even if he was at a downslope and something of a dirty old man at the time, forty year experience as composer and artist together with lyrics expressing his own lecherous mind made it an original piece of art. Maybe not the most delicate, but still original. This is just a reproduction of the procedure and since the instigators obviously lacked true connection to the material, so do I. Most amusing thing with it is the label name "Kondom", exisiting for this and one more issue only. It came in a thin, fully laminated cover. (CXÅ*) (SCÄ*) (ÄXÅH*) (CCÖ*)

GAMMELTJO MED BORDELLMAMMA KONDOM 2 (-73) SWEDEN

Follow-up to "Bordellmammas Julvisor" (Brothel Madam's Christmas Carols), made by the same gang with similar agenda - to cash in on the not yet faded Johnny Bode hype (title is hard to translate, but "Old Time Whoopee With The Brothel Madam" ought to be close). Another theme album, this time concentrating on styles popular in Sweden during the thirties and forties - hambos, polkas and waltzes with plots about sailors, railway builders, midsummer celebrations and folklore. All melodies includes recognizable traditonal motifs and the lyrics depicts various sexual practices using a vast battery of four letter words. As the former nicely orchestrated and arranged with sometimes clever and funny turns, but lacking the sincerity and tattered genious of Bode's originals. As far as I know never re-issued in any form. It came with label as shown here and thin fully laminated cover. (SCÄ*) (ÄXÅH*) (CCÖ*)

THE MOONLIGHTERS/SOUND OF POP SWELPC 62 (-67) SWEDEN

For many Swedish rock/pop groups in the sixties the small domestic market went sour after a while and one way to survive was by converting into a dance band, as those were always in demand throughout the land. Known exemples - Sten & Stanley, Sven-Ingvars, Shanes and Jackpots. Moolighters instead started as a dance orchestra with a pop/rock repertoire, first recording in English but soon changing to an all Swedish songbook. After hearing and liking this debute LP I went to see them playing Savoy Hotel in Luleå 1968. It was a big disappoinment. A couple of neat lads doing slow dance covers for a posh audience, nothing even remotely rocking. Not that the music on the record is especially hard or breathtaking, but well done pop and rock with lots of fine organ and pleasant vocals. "Lucille" done slowly and screamy with fat hammond, "Mohair Sam" borderline jazzy and "Yesterday" an instrumental with flutes. Most of the rest in white soul style with some resemblance to Alan Price or Georgie Fame. As a whole a totally ok album, blending light soul and pop without being too easy listening. Vocalist Lars-Erik Holm, here under pseudonym "Larry Moon", quit the band 1975 and became one of the leading figures in Swedish show-biz as singer, songwriter, producer and TV host. He was also one of the men behind the two ill-reputed erotic "Bordellmammas Julvisor"  (Brothel Madam's Christmas Carols) and "Gammeltjo Med Bordellmamma"  (Old Time Whoopee With The Brothel Madam) LP:s  https://monolover.blogspot.com/search?q=kondom   , trying to cash in on the Johnny Bode trademark  https://monolover.blogspot.com/search?q=johnny+bode   . This was released in Sweden only. Reissued 1969 on Interdisc (ILPS 124). First had label as shown here and thin fully laminated cover. (SCÄ*) (CCÖ*)