Shirley Clamp covers “It Must Have Been Love” and “Tro”
Written by Jud on May 2, 2006 to Roxette.
GOTHENBURG - 
While Marie Fredriksson covers her favorite songs from the ’60s and ’70s on “Min bäste vän,” Swedish singer Shirley Clamp covers her favorites from all times in her new album “Favoriter på svenska” that’s due for release on May 10. Last month we reported that the album would include a cover of “It Must Have Been Love”, with the Swedish title “När kärleken föds,” which was just released as a single. But the album features one more song Roxette fans know very well; “Tro” by Marie Fredriksson. She wanted to record Eurythmics’ “Miracle of Love” but when they contacted Annie Lennox they found out she won’t have her songs translated.
“There is a reason for each song to be on the album,” says Clamp to Expressen. “I didn’t have the inspiration to make a new album, then I thought about a Christmas-album, but Jill Johnson was faster, so I decided for an album with covers,” she explains. “I wrote down all my favorite songs on a paper, and eleven made it to the album. One of them is Marie’s ’Tro’: I find no words to explain how beautiful this song is. I was asked to sing it for a funeral and it was magical,” she comments.
Clamp had her breakthrough as a candidate in the Melodifestival in 2004 with the song “Min kärlek.” She will participate in this summer’s RIX-FM Festival tour and guest with Peter Jöback for a couple of Robert Wells’ concerts in Scandinavia.
The new Swedish lyrics are written by Ingela “Pling” Forsman who has taken some artistic liberties and moved beyond simply trying to do a direct translation. One only needs to look at the title, which translates to English as “When Love is Born,” to realize this. Forsman, 55, holds the record for having written the lyrics to the most songs entered in the Melodifestival, with no less than 26 to her credit.
Other songs included on the album are:
“Inget kan gå fel” - Patrik Isaksson
“Öppna din dörr” - Tommy Nilsson
“I en annan del av världen” - Freda
“Regn hos mig” - Orup
“Hur skör du är” [“Fragile”] - Sting
“Vingarna som bär” [“The Wind Beneath Me”] - Bette Midler
“True colour” - Cindy Lauper
“When I need you” - Leo Sayer
“Om” - Niklas Strömstedt.
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11 comments
Jud (moderator) said on May 3, 2006 04:49:
I know most of them, I think.. Om is a fantastic song from Niklas Om album, which is great. Freda is a band with Uno Sveninsson, both good. Orup you might have heard of GES.. all very nice songs :)
purplemedusa said on May 3, 2006 07:21:
She should have had an icecream cone dripping off her face for an album cover!!
Arlanda said on May 3, 2006 15:19:
I really like her coverso I look forward to her version of Maries Tro.
Jud (moderator) said on May 3, 2006 18:41:
just listened to NKF and must say it’s good :O Hard to beat Marie, but the cover is very nice :) Looking forward to listen to Tro!
PS: but of course, the song itself is a pearl, diamond, piece of art, etc ;)
sweetcheeks said on May 4, 2006 10:55:
Behave purplemedusa, I almost think you’re not very keen about it.....;-P
Roxryder-V2002 said on May 4, 2006 11:29:
It debuts #20 on the singles chart and it’s not on the download one, maybe when it’s released it could come up a few places?
PiR_GeSSLe said on May 3, 2006 04:09:
“Tro” is one of Marie’s best songs. I never heard that soul version a duo was supposed to release sometime in 2002...
“Inget kan gå fel” is an excellent song from Patrik Isaksson as well, I really like that one. I got into Patrik recently and he’s become one of my favourites. There is a woman singing on the original one, I don’t know who she is.
The rest of the songs are unknown to me, I think.
It will be nice to listen to IMHBL in Swedish!