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"The Hut-Sut Song (a Swedish Serenade)" is a novelty song from the 1940s with nonsense lyrics. The song was written in 1941 by Leo V. Killion, Ted McMichael and Jack Owens. The first and most popular recording was by Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights. A 1941 Time magazine entry suggests the song was probably a creative adaptation of an ...
(Swedish: Vem kan segla förutan vind?, lit. ' Who can sail without wind? ') is a Swedish folk song and lullaby known from Swedish speaking areas in Finland, assumed to originate from the Åland-islands between Finland and Sweden in the Baltic Sea. The opening line is found in the fifth stanza of an 18th-century ballad, "Goder natt, goder natt ...
Ja, må han (hon) leva (Yes, may he (she) live) is a Swedish birthday song. It originates from the 18th century, but the use as well as its lyrics and melody has changed over the years. It is a song that "every Swede" knows and it is therefore rarely printed in songbooks. Both lyrics and melody are of unknown origin. [6]
The ballad was first published in 1877 as a folk song of the Södermanland region (recorded in Lunda parish, Nyköping Municipality). [1] A variant from Näshulta parish, Eskilstuna Municipality, published in the same collection in 1882, had the title Skogsjungfruns frieri ("The Courting of the Wood-nymph", a skogsjungfru or skogsnufva being a female wood-nymph or fairy). [2]
It was first published in the 1695 Swedish Hymnal, and the Finnish translation was made for the 1701 Finnish Hymnal by Erik Cajanus. [ 2 ] In Sweden and Finland the hymn is traditionally sung at the end of the school year , before the summer holidays, and as such it has reached widespread recognition in both Finnish and Swedish culture.
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' Thou Ancient, Thou Healthy '), but in the late 1850s, he changed the lyrics to "Du gamla, du fria". The song was already published in several song books and sung with "Du gamla, du friska", but a priest who had known Dybeck took the opportunity to inform the singer most associated with the song, opera singer Carl Fredrik Lundqvist , about the ...
In 2011, "Jag kommer" won the Rockbjörnen prize for Best Swedish Song, [38] [39] as well as the Swedish Hit of the Year award at the GAFFA Awards. [40] It received a nomination for Song of the Year at the 2012 Grammis but lost to Avicii's "Levels". [41] "Jag kommer" was also nominated for Song of the Year at the 2012 P3 Guld awards in Sweden. [42]