L.A. Run is a song written by Alan Carvell and Brian O Shea, and recorded by the Carvells in

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which reached number 31 in the UK charts in November of the same year. The song is about the then-new craze of

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which had crossed-over from the US to the UK that same year. With new lyrics in Swedish by T. B. Håkanson and S. Schröder I as Skateboard,

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scored a

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Charts

Carvell's version

Magnum Bonum version

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