Black Cat Songs

Another Gold for a “Black Cat” song!

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:20:24 +0000

Our most popular song to this date is “Mary-Ann” written by our songwriters “Kingen” and Björn Höglund. Last year we placed it on Platinum-record selling “Lasse Stefanz” and this year Kingen himself will recieve a gold record for the same song as the collection “Absolute Rockabilly” reached gold status after just two weeks in the stores! (May 2010)

The producers of “Absolute Rockabilly” pulled the track “Mary-Ann” from Kingen´s album “Ride With Me”, and placed it on their collection, where it´s companied by legends like Elvis, and Jerry Lee to name a few. We are honored of course!

Three songs on “Playtones” new album.

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:44:56 +0000

“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!

Our first release in Japan

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:01:37 +0000

After six months of collaborating and negotiating we finally landed a license agreement with ”Grey Dog Records” in Japan. This means that GDR will release our record “Ride “With Me” with the artist “Kingen” in Japan, starting with all Tower Record-stores throughout the country.

Album in the listening stand at Tower Records JP!

It started with GDR director Takuya Watanabe discovering Kingens Music on the net as his album got great reviews in the US and had a lot of air play on net-radiostations around the world. GDR approached us and suggested a license-deal and we accepted.

We are now very happy to announce the nationwide release in Japan the 20´th of January!

The Japan version of the album include two exclusive bonus tracks; “Baby who´s done you wrong” and “Good to be back”, the latter a track originally intended for the Swedish artist “Björn Skifs” but now released by “Kingen” instead.

Gold and platinum!

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:23:01 +0000

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.

Two songs placed on Black Jack!

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:17:50 +0000

Album: Summertime Blues

“Black Jack” chose two songs from BCS on their album “Summertime Blues”, a great album with edgy production by Dan Sunqvist!

Songs:

“Jackie Bop”

“Visst é de så”

Legendary “Streaplers” records “Det finns bara du” and “Mary-Ann”

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:23:15 +0000

Streaplers is a Swedish band that has been around for almost 50 years, starting in the early sixties and has kept a high profile ever since! The band chose two songs from the BCS catalogue for their two latest albums; “Det finns bara du” and “Mary-Ann”.

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

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:27:54 +0000

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!