"Sing Along" is a pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 song by 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....

 singer and composer Per Gessle

Per Gessle

Per Håkan Gessle is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonicist. He is the lead singer of the Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider and formed Roxette with Marie Fredriksson...

 from his album Party Crasher

Party Crasher

Party Crasher is the third English solo album by Swedish pop-rock singer and composer Per Gessle. This is his second worldwide-released English solo album under his own name after The World According to Gessle in 1997. Originally scheduled for December 3 in Sweden, but it was released on November...

. It was released as the second single from the album on February 4, 2009, featuring two different sleeves, one red and one green.

An acoustic version of the song was performed live at TV4's breakfast television

Breakfast television

Breakfast television or morning show , is a type of infotainment television program, broadcast live in the morning...

 programme "Nyhetsmorgon

Nyhetsmorgon

Nyhetsmorgon is a Swedish morning news and talk show that airs every morning on TV4. It is similar to The Today Show. Nyhetsmorgon started airing in 1992....

" on December 6, 2008. It featured both Per Gessle and Helena Josefsson

Helena Josefsson

Helena Marianne Josefsson is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She is the lead singer in the band Sandy Mouche and has been singing in Per Gessle's projects since 2003. In February 2007 she released her first solo album, Dynamo.-Biography:...

 (vocals), Clarence Öfwerman (piano), Magnus Börjesson (bass) and Jonas Isacsson (acoustic guitar).

Critical reception

When Expressen

Expressen

Expressen is one of two nationwide evening tabloid newspapers in Sweden, the other being Aftonbladet. Expressen was founded in 1944; its symbol is a wasp and slogans "it stings" or "Expressen to your rescue", always on the reader's side....

's Andreas Nunstedt reviewed the Party Crasher album he noted that «Helena Josefsson, who sang like a British nightingale from the '60s on Son Of A Plumber

Son of a Plumber

Son of a Plumber is an album released by Swedish pop-rock singer and composer Per Gessle. It is the first album by Gessle to use a pseudonym artist name; Son of a Plumber. The album, which was officially released on 23 November 2005, is a double CD album packed with deeply personal and highly...

, is prominent. Power ballad à la Joyride».

Track listing

Swedish CD single

(February 4, 2009)

1. "Sing Along" (Radio Edit) – 3:25
2. "Theme From Roberta Right" – 3:05
3. "Sing Along" (Album Version) – 4:01

Credits

• Vocals by Per Gessle & Helena Josefsson
  Helena Josefsson
  Helena Marianne Josefsson is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She is the lead singer in the band Sandy Mouche and has been singing in Per Gessle's projects since 2003. In February 2007 she released her first solo album, Dynamo.-Biography:...
  
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• Played and produced by Clarence Öfwerman, Christoffer Lundquist & Per Gessle.
• Recorded at Aerosol Grey Machine, Vallarum, between jan. & sept. 2008.
• Engineer: Christoffer Lundquist.
• Mixed by Ronny Lahti.
• Words & music by Per Gessle (1 & 3).
• Words by Per Gessle, music by Gabriel Gessle & Per Gessle (2).
• Published by Jimmy Fun Music.
• Design by Pär Wickholm.
• Photo by Åsa Nordin-Gessle (credited as "Woody").

Charts

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Swedish Singles Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	41