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Tommy Blom
Blom performing in July 2010
Background information
Birth nameTommy Albert Blom
Born(1947-03-03)3 March 1947
Gothenburg, Sweden
Died25 May 2014(2014-05-25) (aged 67)
Stockholm, Sweden
Occupations
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • musician
Formerly of
Musical career
Genres
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Blom (right) at a Stockholm restaurant in 2013 (with Lars Jacob)

Tommy Albert Blom (3 March 1947 – 25 May 2014) was a Swedish singer, songwriter and musician. He was a member of the band Tages in the 1960s.

Tages

Blom formed Tages in 1963, originally as a duo with Anders Topel. They performed with acoustic guitars during a regatta in Hovås, south of Gothenburg. Because of popular reception, the duo quickly recruited guitarist Danne Larsson, bassist Göran Lagerberg, and later drummer Freddie Skantze.

Tages were one of the most successful Swedish bands of the 1960s. They achieved thirteen top-20 singles on Kvällstoppen, such as "Sleep Little Girl", "I Should Be Glad", "In My Dreams", and "Miss Mac Baren", as well as having two albums certified gold, Tages (1965) and Tages 2 (1966).

Blom left Tages in 1968, and so, the group changed their name to Blond, before splitting a year later.

Later works

In the mid-1990s, he started hosting Vinyl 107. In 2008, he lost that job because "he was too old", but he returned in 2011.[1] Every Sunday, 60-tals morgon, his programme with songs from the 1960s, was broadcast on Vinyl 107.[2] Before he worked at Vinyl 107, he worked as a music teacher at the school Kvarnbäcksskolan in Haninge.

Blom was a member of the music groups Idolerna[3] and The Cadillac band.[4] He's also known for voicing Mr. Krabs in the Swedish dub of SpongeBob SquarePants until his death.

Death

Blom died on 25 May 2014 in Sweden aged 67.

Discography

Main article: Tages discography

References

  1. ^ "Tommy Blom var för gammal för Vinyl 107 och sp... | Nöje". Expressen. January 23, 2011. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  2. ^ "Vinyl 107 – Radio Play". Vinyl107.se. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  3. ^ "Archived" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on September 4, 2013. Retrieved 2023-05-22.[dead link]
  4. ^ "The Cadillac band - om bandet". Archived from the original on April 16, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2012.

See also

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