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If You Can Put That in a Bottle

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"If You Can Put That in a Bottle"
Song by Peter Doyle
LanguageEnglish
Released1967
GenrePopular music
Songwriter(s)Billy Meshel

"If You Can Put That in a Bottle" is a 1967 song by Wilbur Meshel[1] performed by Peter Doyle.

Swedish singer Lill Lindfors released a Swedish version, "En man i byrån", with lyrics by Peter Himmelstrand in 1969.[2] With the song, she scored a Svensktoppen hit for 14 weeks between 7 December[3]-18 March 1970,[4] topping the chart.

For many years, Lill Lindfors refused to perform the song, since many people thought of it as a dildo-metaphor.[5]

Swedish singer Agnetha Fältskog recorded the song with German lyrics as "Ein kleiner Mann in einer Flasche" and released it as a single on the Western German market in 1970.

References

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  1. ^ En titt i min spegel / Lill Lindfors, Svensk mediedatabas. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  2. ^ En man i byrån / Lindfors, Lill, Svensk mediedatabas. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  3. ^ Svensktoppen - 1969
  4. ^ Svensktoppen - 1970
  5. ^ Harry Amster (20 October 2013). "Jag förstod inte att texten var riktad till Jesus". Svenska dagbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 October 2015.