"Blinkar blå" was the breakthrough single for the Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 band Adolphson-Falk

Adolphson-Falk

Adolphson-Falk is a Swedish synthpop band, fronted by Tomas Adolphson and Anders Falk . Greg Fitzpatrick and Dagge Lundquist were of importance for the successful electronical sound....

 when it was played in the Swedish radio show Eldorado in 1981. The single was their first synth-single (with Greg FitzPatrick controlling the synths).

Original release 1981

"Blinkar blå" was recorded on 4-5 November in 1981 in Riksradions studio 7 in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

. "Rum för dig" was an older acoustic song recorded in 1980 in KMH Studio.

English version

The song was released in 1982 in an English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

version, "Flashing Blue".