History
1963 The Telstars was started by Gösta Nilsson and Rolf Bäckman, two happy jazz lovers born in the early thirtieth. Inspired by many of the American and Swedish jazzmusicians. And members of the most wellknowed bigbands and jazzbands in Sweden, Thore Erlings Bigband, Leif Kronlunds Bigband, Harry Arnolds Radioband ( Swedish all-star jazzmusicians, even Quincy Jones played here. ) and Carl-Henrik Norins Jazzband, Hacke Björkstens Jazzband completed they their dream, to have an own band. Gösta and Rolf name "their music-stile" for "JazzPop" as also became the title of their first LP-album that was released 1964, a mix of jazz and pop, jazz for their roots and pop for the new and hip, a good combination at the time, and it was rigth, they scored! Pretty good I will say, they became the houseband in the TV-program "Drop in" ( The Beatles and the most famous bands in the ´60 was on that TV-show .). And they was also foreband to The Beatles on their first tour in Sweden 1963.
THE WINNER OF SCANDINAVIA´S BEST POPDANCEBAND AWARD
1966 The Telstars was the winner of " The Scandinavia's best Popdanceband " award competing with all the best Popdancebands in Scandinavia.
From left : Berndt "Frippe" Fristedt bass, Kjell Öhman keyboards, Douglas Westlund drums, Gösta Nilsson trumpets, Boris "Rock-Boris" Lindquist song and guitar and Rolf Bäckman saxophone.
The prize for this was a trip to London in England to record 3 songs and 10.000 SEK. One of the song they record was The Beatles "Good day sunshine" produced by Derek Lawrence. - Fantastic, said Gösta Nilsson they can make wonderful sounds in English studios.The Telstars also played in the famous Balise´s club one night.
The Winner of Best Melody 1967
The 3rd of September 1967 all of Sweden changed from left side traffic to right side traffic and to keep the drivers on the right side of the road we needed a melody playing on the radio often. There was announced a melody-competition on the national television. There were many melodies competing but Telstars was the winner with the song " Håll dej till höger, Svensson " ( Keep yourself to the right, Svensson.). Svensson are a family-name but also a name for the typical Swedish citizen. The song written by Peter Himmelstrand. One's again a big score for The Telstars was taken...
The Singel " Håll dej till höger, Svensson " 1967 with the same members in the band as above.
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