Frequently awarded pop/schlager singer with one of the longest carreers for a Swedish female artist. Born 1936 in the south country she started as vocalist for local bands already in her mid-teens and got a domestic breakthrough late fifties. Since then she's recorded over sixhundred songs in ten different languages where of forty high on domestic lists and others all over Europe, culminating 1967 when managing ten high charters in Sweden within a year. She's worked as actor in movies, cabaret primadonna, many times contester in the European Schlager competition and lately as stand-up comedian. She became the first Swedish artist on Billboard hot hundred, reaching #86 with "Sole, Sole, Sole" - a duet with Italian artist Umberto Marcato. Still touring and doing TV performances today at age 82. Her home away from home has been Germany and her recordings in German always popular there. This release has ten of those and four sung in Swedish. Maybe an attempt to flirt with both markets. Outcome typical for early sixties European schlager - a mix of up-tempo and ballads, orchestrated with an all positive atmosphere. Very well produced and arranged with personal vocals. Only track that diverge a little is "Det Är Nå't Visst Med Twist" (Twist is Something Special) - a humoristic pop/rock trial where she partly sings in her native "skånska" dialect. Audio perfect - loud, clear and well separated. I guess most fitting for oldies like me who grew up with hearing the songs on radio and TV early on, but might also do it for die-hard collectors of female vocal or modern schlager lovers in general. To my knowledge this was the only release. A kind of reissue came 1967 (MLP 15252), carrying the same name, but different sleeve design and all German tracking. Premiere issue had label as shown here and fully laminated flip/back cover. (FÄV*) (GÖXÄ*) (SCÄ*)
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