Three songs on “Playtones” new album.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 11:47 Written by admin Wednesday, 20 January 2010 11:44

“The Playtones” are the proud winners of the national TV-contest “Dansbandskampen”. With their distinct sound and image, they needed specific original material to match their profile for their upcoming album. We were contacted by The Playtones Publisher,Conny Danepalm, manager of “Lionheart Music”, asking if we had any material that would fit. We turned to our songwiters and went through our entire catalogue and sent a few suggestions for the album.

The band chose three songs from BCS;

• Crying over you (T.Karlsson/B.Höglund)
• Brand new Bop (T.Karlsson/B.Höglund)
• Förlåt mig om du kan (Å. Hallgren)

We are thrilled to collaborate with Lionheart Music on this project and wish to thank everybody involved!

Gold and platinum!

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 11:26 Written by admin Thursday, 20 August 2009 11:23

Swedish band “Lasse Stefanz” has  reached gold-status in Norway and Platinum in Sweden with their album “Truck stop”. Black Cat Songs has one song on the record, “Mary-Ann” by songwriters Björn Höglund and Torgny “Kingen” Karlsson.

CBS uses “Ride with me” in the series “Swingtown”

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 03:37 Written by admin Wednesday, 20 August 2008 03:27

CBS is one of the big four national terrestrial TV networks in America, and the channel’s  music producers chose the song “Ride With Me” for a sequence in their  new big push “Swingtown,” a series that takes place in the seventies and follows a few adult couples and young people throughout the decades culture- and lifestyle.

The series has been highly publicized and controversial in conservative America, but is loved by a large crowd of viewers. ”Swingtown” is broadcast on Fridays “prime time” and have stars who appeared in both “Lost” and “Melrose Place” in the lists.
The current song “Ride With Me” is almost the only song from a “new” artist in the series, then the rest of the soundtrack  consists of 70´s classics from  the greatest contemporary American artists at the time. Black Cat Songs agency in Hollywood, the company “Crucial Music “(www.crucialmusic.com) managed to negotiate our  song in episode 11 (Get Down), which was sent Friday, August 15.
The song in question was written by Torgny “Kingen” Karlsson and Åke Hallgren.

Black Cat Songs have been working since February with several projects in parallel in the United States, to establish contacts, and write contracts so  we are obviously very pleased that our first placement “over there” turns out to be on national television channel CBS!