Hep Stars recorded US album of Curt Boettcher + Sandy Salisbury songs

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from http://ironleg.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/iron-leg-digital-trip-28-i-just-want-to-be-your-friend-the-sounds-of-curt-boettcher/

The next two tracks are the result of one of the most unusual musical connections in the Curt Boettcher story. Steve Clark who ran the business end of Boettcher’s production company (who had parted ways with Curt) hooked up with the management of the Swedish pop group the Hep Stars. The biggest Swedish band of the 60s, the Hep Stars included in their ranks one Benny Andersson, later of ABBA. Clark thought he could break the Hep Stars in the US and took the reins of their career. He dismissed several band members, and took those that remained into the studio, and in an odd twist had them record a number of Curt Boettcher and Sandy Salisbury songs, as well as the title track from Tommy Roe’s ‘It’s Now Winters Day’. The resulting album ‘It’s Been a Long Long Time’ was a flop, with only one 45 (‘Musty Dusty’) ever seeing release in the US.