Thorleifs released more than 30 albums and were still recording as recently as 2007. The band was formed in 1962 around singer, saxophonist and guitarist Thorleif Torstensson and keyboardist, saxophonist and guitarist Hans Magnusson. They still formed the core of the band in the 1970s when Thorleifs debuted in the Swedish charts in 1971 with "In Mexico." The album "Coming Home to You" followed in 1973, the same year members of the band that would become ABBA played as a support act at one of Thorleifs' concerts. "Weep No Tears" from 1975 was their second gold record. In 1977 and 1977, they were voted Sweden's most popular dansband.
First formed in 1960 as a five-man band with Hasse Carlsson on vocals, Flamingokvintetten found success in the late 1960s and early 1970s with hit singles such as "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen," "Produce Them Happy Memories," and "Love Letters in the Sand." They released all of their music in the '70s through their own record company, Flame Records. In 1975, Flamingokvintetten was voted the country's most popular dansband.
Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog and Frida Lyngstad won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with "Waterloo". It became the first of many hit singles for the group ABBA. While not technically part of the dansband movement, ABBA had several songs that came to be associated with disco. Most notable among them is "Dancing Queen," which reached No. 1 in England in September of 1976 and No. 1 in America in April of 1977. ABBA broke up in the early '80s, but its music remained popular enough to inspire a Broadway hit and a movie called "Mamma Mia!" in 2006 and 2008 respectively.