Miss Mac Baren

"Miss Mac Baren" is a song by the Swedish rock band Tages, released as a single in November 1966.

[7] The band was unsure of what to record until they were sitting at a bar and guitarist Danne Larsson spotted an ad for Mac Baren Tobacco, which inspired the title.

[7] The band subsequently wrote the rest of the song on a tour bus in Southern Sweden during their way home from Denmark.

According to vocalist Tommy Blom, it was partly inspired by a currently unidentified Finnish rock group which Tages had heard the previous year during a tour.

[7][8] The unusual sound used at the beginning and end of the song was conceived by Blom, who crawled inside a grand piano and played it with a pick.