A-side "Gråt inga tårar" Released 1974 Genre dansband music | B-side "Jag är så gla' Format grammophone record Writer(s) Åke Hallgren | |
"Gråt inga tårar" is a song written by Åke Hallgren in the dansband Pippis from Hede, and recorded and a released a single by several dansbands in 1974, including Pippis, Dannys and Thorleifs. Pippis also recorded the song on the 1975 album Ordning på torpet.
Thorleifs, who used "Jag är så gla'" as a B-side, released the song as a 1974 single, only available for members in the Thorleifs fan club scoring a Svensktoppen hit for 11 weeks during the period of 11 March-4 May 1975 peaking at third position. The single sold platina and also gave the name to the band 's 1975 album Gråt inga tårar. The song was also recorded in Danish, as "Græd ingen tårer".
In the year 2000, Swedish radio program I afton dans in Sveriges Radio P4 held a voting where the song was appointed "Dansband song of the 20th century ". The song has also been appointed "dansband hit song of all times".
In 2006 Thorleifs participated at Sveriges Television's "Musikministeriet" recording "Gråt inga tårar" together with Balkan band Süperstar Orkestar from the Republic of Macedonia. During a test to combine Balkan music with dansband music, the song was re-arranged from major scale to minor scale, creating the original concept of "Dansband-Balkan music". Süperstar Orkestar also recorded the song for the 2008 album Balkanized.