Liner notes from Swing & Sweet:

A golden shimmer has been spreading across music Sweden lately. Behind this is of course Gyllene Tider.

  One gold single, one platinum single and one platinum LP already. But their first record was in fact an EP, that was only manufactured in 1000 copies on a small company in Halmstad. Gyllene Tider has therefore decided to release a new EP, also this in a limited, although maybe a little larger quantity, edition.  Here Mats, Per, Göran, Micke and Anders deal with four of their favorite tunes. The five kick off with the intro tune from this fall's tour, "Gyllene Tider för Rock'n'Roll", which originally, (1974), was a single by Mott the Hoople. It was then called "Golden Age Of Rock'n'Roll". In the beginning you can hear Pugh Rogefeldt and it is Hasse Breitholtz who plays the piano.

  After that follows one of the parade numbers from Gyllene Tider's first gigs (at the Cinema Reflex in Getinge). Tom Petty's "I Need to know", which in Per's version is called "Vill ha ett svar!".

"Och jorden den är rund...” is the group’s version of "And Your Bird Can Sing", one of three Beatles' tracks which were released in U.S.A. a couple of months before the release of "Revolver" 1966. With some help from modern technology we can hear Mats play two Stratocaster guitars at the same time.

Finally comes Brian Wilson's "Girl Don't Tell Me", which first saw the light of day on the Beach Boys' LP "Summer Days (and Summer Nights)" 1965. "Ge mej inte det där" could have been produced by Phil Spector himself, here you can hear no less than 14 tambourines and 8 maracas!

  Here it is, the second EP from Halmstad's golden five. Wind up your old gramophone and whip out the pick-up!

 Hasse Huss