“Refleksjoner” starts at 0:56.
THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,519) Inge Christofersen — “Refleksjoner”/”Reflections”
Such an indescribably gorgeous pop rock song from Inge Christofersen’s solo LP — but it is in Norwegian (and I can’t find the Norwegian lyrics) so I have no idea what it is about. If someone would want to enlighten me, I would be grateful. Two of the album’s other songs got banned by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corp. — one because it made fun of Norwegian actress and model Julie Ege’s on screen and in print nudity (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/02/obituaries.world) and the other because it made fun of one of Norway’s two dueling Communist parties. I’m not making this up.
Jon Vidar Bergan tells us of Inge Christofersen (courtesy of Google Translate):
In the 1960s he made three singles with the pop group Souls, in 1970 he released a critically acclaimed solo LP, in 1979 he wrote a Grand Prix song and in 1984 an ambitious album . . . . In the late autumn of 1965 he formed the pop group Souls together with fellow students at Hokksund Gymnas [high school]. . . . Inge was the vocalist, played a little guitar and organ, and wrote five of the six songs Souls recorded . . . . They came in 2nd place in the Norwegian National Championship in rock in 1966 and were rewarded with a record contract . . . . The debut single “Mother” entered VG’s “The Best Norwegian” list on July 13, 1966 and . . . [was the] 11th most popular Norwegian single of the year[.] Souls was the 8th most popular Norwegian artist of the year. . . . Inge wrote “Mother” after his mother died of cancer when he was 16. . . . 1967 [saw] the sequel “The Day is over” . . . . [The] 3rd and final single in 1968, “Money” . . . is advanced and sophisticated pop music of high quality. In the spring of 1969, Souls disbanded. Inge moved to Hamar after high school to attend teacher training college, but after graduating in 1969 he had little desire to work as a teacher. He sent his special assignment from teacher training college to Arne Bendiksen and offered to work there as a producer in his studio. . . . While the studio was not in use, Inge recorded a number of his songs for free. He played all instruments except drums . . . on the solo single “Ingen diskresjon”[/”No Discretion”]/”Liv og død”[/”Life and Death”] . . . . [O]n the solo LP “Refleksjoner” . . . he was the producer and arranger, and played piano, organ, spinet, vibraphone, guitar, bass, flute and a little drums. . . . Several of the lyrics were political, and two of the songs were so controversial that NRK [the Norwegian Broadcasting Corp.] banned them from being played: “Du lot alle sammen få se”[/”You Let Everyone See”], which ironized Julie Ege’s nudity, and “Hurra for Mao”[/”Hooray for Mao”], which [radio host] Harald Are Lund refused to play because it criticized the AKP (ML) [the Norwegian Maoist political party]. Inge received a letter of solidarity written on Christmas Day 1970 at a musician’s party . . . . After the solo album, Inge started working at Coop in Oslo. He married in 1971 and had [a] daughter . . . in 1974. In the late 1970s, he took his family to Tanzania to work. But he continued to write songs, and in 1979 his entry for the Melodi Grand Prix was accepted. “Sang uten ord”[/”Song Without Words”] was performed by Gudny Aspaas, who is best known as the vocalist in Ruphus. It finished 7th out of 8 songs in the final . . . and was never released on record. In 1981 . . . [in] a competition for various cultural expressions in the fight against drugs[,] Inge’s artistic contribution was the mini-musical “Hvite hester”[/”White Horses”], which won one of the three first prizes. . . . [and] was staged by the National Theatre . . . .
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