Anni-Frid Lyngstad

In 2004 she re-entered the limelight by recording a song in conjunction with former Deep Purple legend Jon Lord "The Sun will Shine Again" and also appearing with Benny and Bjorn at the London 5th Anniversary performance of the musical based on Abba songs, "Mamma Mia".
. After the break-up of Abba in 1982 Frida released a successful album, "There's Something Going On" though the follow-up "Shine" was less popular and proved her last foray into the music world for some years. In 2004, Jim Kale started touring with his version of the Guess Who (known as the "Klones" by Cummings), Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings are planning on touring as the Bachman-Cummings Band in the summer of 2005 with Toronto's The Carpet Frogs. In 1992 Anni-Frid married His Highness Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss von Plauen (1950-1999), of the Princely Reuss family. For lead vocalist Cummings, it was a privilege to receive the doctorate, since he did not graduate from high school. She married Benny on October 6, 1978 - divorcing in 1981. In 2001, a year after the Guess Who went on a cross-Canada national tour, the band received honourary doctorates at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba.

She made a second in 1971, produced by Benny Andersson, laying the foundations for ABBA. The Guess Who broke up in 1975, but a new incarnation has since been formed and continues to tour in the tradition of the group and sound Cummings made famous. In 1967 Anni-Frid won a TV talent contest, and made an album for EMI. The Guess Who continued with more hit singles such as "Share The Land" and "Clap For The Wolfman" (an homage to disc jockey Wolfman Jack, who incidentally, lent his own voice to the recording). Anni-Frid got her first job as a jazz singer at the age of 13, then formed her own band, the Anni-Frid Four, marrying the bass player Ragnar Fredriksson at age 18, with whom she had two children before divorcing. Group differences led Randy Bachman to leave the group, return to Winnipeg, and form Brave Belt, which eventually evolved into the hit group Bachman Turner Overdrive. Synni died before Anni-Frid was two, so she was brought up by her grandmother in Eskilstuna, Sweden. By the beginning of the 1970s, the group moved towards an edgier hard-rock sound with the album "American Woman", which featured among its tracks the title song (the only Number One hit the group had in the U.S.), "When Friends Fall Out" (a short ditty that was sort of a cross between Strawberry Alarm Clock, Jefferson Airplane and the Lennon Sisters), and the Top Ten hit "No Time".

At the end of WWII Anni-Frid, her mother and grandmother fled to Sweden for fear of reprisals from the Norwegian population - whose socialist government put many German-fathered children into mental institutions, or sent them overseas. 1969's "These Eyes" was the group's first Top Ten hit under new group leader Burton Cummings. After a German magazine published the story of her origins in 1977, Anni-Frid discovered that her father had not died. As the group lineup changed, so did their sound. Anni-Frid was born illegitimately in Ballangen, near Narvik, Norway as a result of a liaison between Synni - her mother - and a married German sergeant, Alfred Haase, during the German military occupation. Anni-Frid believed that her father had died when his ship to Germany was sunk during the war. The band was originally known as "Chad Allan & The Expressions" before their record label tried a stunt of hiding the name of the band with the words "Guess Who?" The reception proved so positive that the name stuck. Anni-Frid-Synni "Frida" Lyngstad (born November 15, 1945) is best known as one of the four singers in the pop group ABBA. They were the first Canadian rock group to have a No.1 hit on the American Music Charts.

The Guess Who is a Canadian rock music band from Winnipeg, Manitoba that was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country as well as abroad in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Guess Who's iTunes Music Store album list  (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?artistId=216203) (requires iTunes to be installed). Excellent Guesswhooligan web site (http://guesswhofans.com). Steiss's Guess Who Site (includes lyrics of most Guess Who songs) (http://www.ghg.net/bnsteiss).

Mark Chadbourne's All Hashed Out Guess Who web site (http://community-2.webtv.net/mmchadbourne/AHO). Vance Masters' website (http://www.members.shaw.ca/vancemasters). Greg Leskiw's website (http://www.swingsoniq.com/). Donnie McDougall's website (http://www.duckrecords.com).

Bill Wallace's website (http://www.beancakes.com). Randy Bachman's official website (http://www.randybachman.com). 2004 The Best of Running Back Thru Canada. 2004 Road Food/Power in the Music (Remastered, The Guess Who x2).

2004 Rockin'/Flavours (Remastered, The Guess Who x2). 2004 So Long Bannatyne/#10 (Remastered, The Guess Who x2). 2004 Wheatfield Soul/Artificial Paradise (Remastered, The Guess Who x2). 2003 The Guess Who: Anthology.

2003 Platinum & Gold Collection: The Guess Who. 2001 This Time Long Ago. 2000 Running Back Thru Canada (Live). 2000 Share the Land (Remastered).

2000 Live At The Paramount (Remastered). 2000 American Woman (Remastered). 1999 The Guess Who: Greatest Hits. 1999 Down The Road (Live).

1998 The Spirit Lives On (Live). 1997 Razor's Edge. 1997 The Guess Who: The Ultimate Collection. 1995 Lonely One.

1995 Liberty. 1988 Track Record: The Guess Who Collection. 1986 The Best Of The Guess Who Live. 1984 Together Again.

1979 All This For a Song. 1978 Guess Who's Back?. 1977 The Greatest Hits Of The Guess Who. 1976 The Way They Were.

1975 Power In The Music. 1974 Flavours. 1974 Road Food. 1973 #10.

1973 Artificial Paradise. 1973 The Best Of The Guess Who Volume 2. 1973 The Best Of The Guess Who (re-issue). 1972 Wild One.

1972 Rockin'. 1972 The History Of The Guess Who. 1972 The Guess Who Live At The Paramount. 1972 Shakin' All Over (re-issue).

1971 So Long, Bannatyne. 1971 The Best Of The Guess Who. 1971 Guess Who Play The Guess Who. 1970 Share the Land.

1970 American Woman. 1969 Born In Canada. 1968 Wheatfield Soul. 1968 Canned Wheat.

1968 A Wild Pair (half Guess Who/half Staccatos (Five Man Electrical Band)). 1968 The Guess Who. 1966 It's Time. 1965 Hey Ho (What You Do To Me).

1965 Shakin' All Over. 2004 Bobby Bilan, Carl Dixon, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson, Leonard Shaw (Klones). 2000 Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Donnie McDougall, Garry Peterson, Bill Wallace. 2000 Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Jim Kale, Donnie McDougall, Garry Peterson.

1999 Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson. 1998 Carl Dixon, Garry Peterson, Dale Russell, Ken Sinnaeve, Leonard Shaw (Klones). 1997 Carl Dixon, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson, Dale Russell, Leonard Shaw (Klones). 1990 Terry Hatty, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson, Dale Russell, Leonard Shaw (Klones).

1982 Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson. 1980 Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Garry Peterson, Bill Wallace. 1979 David Inglis, Jim Kale, Vance Masters, Donnie McDougall. 1979 David Inglis, Jim Kale, Vance Masters, Donnie McDougall, Kurt Winter.

1974 Burton Cummings, Garry Peterson, Domenic Troiano, Bill Wallace. 1972 Burton Cummings, Donnie McDougall, Garry Peterson, Bill Wallace, Kurt Winter. 1972 Burton Cummings, Jim Kale, Donnie McDougall, Garry Peterson, Kurt Winter. 1970 Burton Cummings, Jim Kale, Greg Leskiw, Garry Peterson, Kurt Winter.

1966 Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson. 1966 Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Bruce Decker, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson. 1965 The Guess Who: Chad Allen, Randy Bachman, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson, Burton Cummings. 1964 Chad Allen (Allen Cobell), Randy Bachman, Jim Kale, Bob Ashley, Garry Peterson.

1962 Chad Allen & The Reflections: Chad Allen, Bob Ashley, Randy bachman, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson. 1961 Chad Allen & The Silvertones: Chad Allen, Bob Ashley, Randy Bachman, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson, Carol West. 1960 The Silvertones: Chad Allen (Allen Cobell), Bob Ashley, Brian Donald, Johnny Glowa, Jim Kale, Larry Wah. "No Time".

"Undun", which fans sometimes call "She's Come Undone". "Share The Land". "Hand Me Down World". "No Sugar Tonight".

"Clap For the Wolfman". "American Woman" - The first Canadian rock song to hit #1 in the American Music Charts. "These Eyes". "Laughing".

"Shakin' All Over" - 1960--original by Johnny Kidd & The Pirates; 1965--covered by The Guess Who; 1970--covered by The Who.