Did she do any other work? Or did she just fade away into the sunset?
TIA
Great song, been a long time since I’ve heard it.
I found this:
It was directed by Lasse Hallstrom.
Maybe you could e-mail the person that posted the video to see where they got it? Or e-mail Presley or Hallstrom, depending on how determined you are.
control-z writes:
> It was directed by Lasse Hallstrom.
Cite? I think this was too early to be directed by him. He apparently didn’t start directing music videos until 1974, and at that point he was directing ABBA videos in his native country of Sweden. It would be odd if he had directed a music video earlier than that in the U.K. It certainly appears that he didn’t work outside Sweden until he was already established as a music video and then as a feature film director in Sweden. Furthermore, “Love is All Around” is very early in the history of music videos. No one in 1966 thought of music videos as being important to the promotion of songs. The Troggs would have gone with anyone they could pick up quickly to direct the video. They would have gone with anyone they could pick up quickly to play the girl in it. I suspect that the girl is no one that you ever heard of.
Well darn, mark the Hallstrom part as questionable. It was stated in the YouTube comments (yeah, I know), but I also remembered confirming it on another site that I cannot find now…
This is supposed to be the official Troggs website, has contact e-mails: http://www.my-generation.org.uk/Troggs/
maybe if you sprinkled some fucking fairy dust on it.
Here’s a biography of Hallstrom:
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800025332/bio
It appears that he didn’t do anything outside of Sweden until 1991. During the period when the music video for “Love Is All Around” was shot, he was working in Swedish TV and was unknown outside Sweden. A Google search on “Lasse Hallstrom”, “Love Is All Around”, and “The Troggs” produces nothing except for some pages on which it happens that it’s both mentioned that “Love Is All Around” was a very early music video and that Hallstrom directed some ABBA videos, but these two events happened a decade apart. Is it even possible to search the comments for YouTube? I’m sorry, control-z, but I just don’t believe that Hallstrom directed the video for the song.
I just did another Google search and got some weird results. I wondered if perhaps Hallstrom directed the music video for the Wet Wet Wet version of “Love Is All Around”, which is more recent and actually sold much better. I found an interesting hit when I put in “Lasse Hallstrom”, “Love Is All Around”, and “Wet Wet Wet”. There was a website (but not a YouTube website) where someone comments on the video in only the cached version of the website that Hallstrom directed the video for the version by the Troggs. In the current form of the website though, that comment doesn’t exist. Perhaps someone made that comment on a website and later that comment was removed from the website, leaving it only in the cached version. In any case, it just doesn’t work with the known events of Hallstrom’s life for him to be directing a video in the U.K. in 1967.
You can “View All Comments” but it’s a fairly internet and CPU-intensive task, at least on my puter:
http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&v=3EXRPxC-5bE&fromurl=/watch%3Fv%3D3EXRPxC-5bE
There’s no details, the person just says he directed it.
The interesting thing is that the cached website that I found by putting “Lasse Hallstrom”, “Love Is All Around”, and “Wet Wet Wet” into Google is a copy of a couple of dozen consecutive posts from the comments section of the music video of the Troggs version of “Love Is All Around.” So this claim that Lasse Hallstrom directed the Troggs video of “Love Is All Around” comes from only one source, a comment on YouTube. Someone grabbed a bunch of text from a consecutive section of the comments section of the YouTube video and put it on their own website. It’s since been removed and only exists in cached form.
Yeah I noticed that. These websites seemed to be presenting YouTube videos embedded into their own sites, and they copied part of the comments as well. Which seems like a shaky business model, YouTube comments usually aren’t worth the electricity to put them on your monitor. :rolleyes:
There’s also a lot of “borrowing” of the Wikipedia article on music videos.
A reply from Jacqueline Ryan, the president of the official Troggs fan club, to the question of who the woman is in the music video for “Love Is All Around”. I’m guessing she asked one of the Troggs:
Aw. That answer depresses me.
Thanks for checking Walloon.
I bet they get asked that fairly often, judging by the love for the girl in the YouTube comments.
Maybe I’ll have more luck with my inquiry. Can anybody ID the short-haired girl in the Coldplay “Trouble” video?
She might be Elaine Cassidy, who definitely played the girl in the Coldplay video of “The Scientist”.
Wow, thanks for going way beyond the call of duty. Anyway, my question has been answered in the sense that she was a bit of a one-hit wonder, apparently.
I agree. There’s something about rock video girls, anyway, and this one is especially captivating.