The Jackpots — “Jack in the Box”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 21, 2023

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD

930) The Jackpots — “Jack in the Box”

I think Freddie Mercury and Jeff Lynne must have been big fans of Gothenburg, Sweden’s Jackpots (see #83), cause this “tripped out classic pop psike gem” (https://www.last.fm/music/The+Jackpots/+wiki) sounds “like a mashup of ELO and Queen” (cvlebrah, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjsPXMGWBPk). Oh man, does it ever. Just call this “Jack Meets Evil Bohemian Woman”!

Svenskpophistoria tells us (courtesy of Google Translate) that:

The Jackpots came from Gothenburg and w[ere] formed . . . in 1964. . . . The[y] became one of Sweden’s most celebrated pop bands. Their superb falsetto and vocal vocals were in a class of their own, and they were deservedly praised by the pop critics of the time. . . . The[y] became very popular in [Norway] in 1964-65. The Jackpots were also discovered in Denmark and there they were stationed for months on end for several tours. In Denmark they also met the English record producer Jimmy Campbell who came to produce the first record for Danish Sonet . . . . [which] led to contact with Svenska Sonet and the[y were] discovered by the rest of Sweden. Once in Sweden, The Jackpot’s records were produced by Claes Clabbe Geijerstam from Ola and the Janglers. . . . The Jackpots were . . . a hard touring pop band during the mid and late sixties with gigs both in Sweden and abroad. Tours in Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and England were replaced by long folk park tours at home. . . . The Jackpots gained an increasingly growing fan base and . . . seemed to be on their way to the big breakthrough. But the successes on the popular and important Top Ten list of the time did not happen. . . . When the Swedish pop wave ebbed in the late sixties, The Jackpots continued their career as a successful dance band.

https://www.svenskpophistoria.se/JACKPOTS/info.html

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