THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
2,067) The Jackpots — “Miss Judith Lee”
Gentle pop psych with glorious harmonies from Gothenburg, Sweden’s Jackpots (see #83, 930).
MONOLOVER tells us (courtesy of Google Translate):
Their mix of perfect high pitch vocals and psych is rather unique. They all sing like graduates from boys choirs, with very tender yet strong voices, sometimes harmonies up to five layers. Song list consisting of covers and self-penned, all blending pure pop with psych. It’s not violent in any way, more like multi-colored spun sugar flowing from the speakers. Most of its strength comes from the partly adventurous production. The group, Roger Wallis and Perry Ford are credited, but I’m certain studio engineer Michael B. Tretow was behind some of it. He was known for his experimenting back then and later famous as ABBA producer and creator of the “ABBA-sound”.
https://monolover.blogspot.com/2012/09/jackpotsjack-in-box-slp-68-68-sweden.html
Christian Colliander laments (courtesy of Google Translate):
Jackpots were Sweden’s most underrated band. A great shame that they never made it here. I remember that in Gothenburg we loved them for their fantastic vocals that sounded just as good live as on record. It’s a scandal that Stockholm’s top 10 never caught on. Was it because they weren’t from Stockholm?
https://www.blaskoteket.se/artiklar/idolnytt/1967-13/jackpots-ska-bli-nagot/
Svenskpophistoria tells us (courtesy of Google Translate):
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 [see #196, 323, 1,568] . . . . 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.
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