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Mälarö Kyrka
"Mälarö kyrka" is a 1968 song in Swedish, written by Swedish TV man Sven Lindahl. The song text is about a young man sneaking into a church late at night to play Bach and the Beatles on the organ. The inspiration to the song text is from the church Adelsö kyrka, and the song was originally recorded by Lenne Broberg and released as a single. The song stayed at Svensktoppen for seven weeks during the period 24 March-5 May 1968. On 7 April 1968, his version of the song entered the #1 on Svensktoppen. It has a similar chord progression to Pachelbel's Canon. Cover versions In 1979, Magnus Uggla covered the song on his EP '' Magnus Uggla band sjunger schlagers''. Åsa Jinder recorded ''Mälarö kyrka'' with her nyckelharpa, scoring a Svensktoppen hit for seven weeks during the period 27 November 1993 – 29 January 1994. A Finnish language version, ''Vanha Holvikirkko'', has also been written and been recorded by among others Finnish musician Eero Raittinen and punk band Klam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenne Broberg
The Lenne () is a tributary of the river Ruhr (river), Ruhr in the Sauerland hills, western Germany. It has caused flooding in recent years. Having its source on top of the ''Kahler Asten'' near Winterberg in an intermittent spring at an elevation of , the Lenne ends after a course of 129 km flowing into the Ruhr (river), Ruhr river near the city of Hagen. With an average discharge of 25 m³/s near its mouth, it is the main tributary of the Ruhr (river), Ruhr. References * Rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia Lenne basin, Rivers of Germany {{NorthRhineWestphalia-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cover Version
In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song. Originally, it referred to a version of a song released around the same time as the original in order to compete with it. Now, it refers to any subsequent version performed after the original. History The term "cover" goes back decades when cover version originally described a rival version of a tune recorded to compete with the recently released (original) version. Examples of records covered include Paul Williams' 1949 hit tune " The Hucklebuck" and Hank Williams' 1952 song " Jambalaya". Both crossed over to the popular hit parade and had numerous hit versions. Before the mid-20th century, the notion of an original version of a popular tune would have seemed slightly odd – the production of musical entertainment was seen as a live event, even if it was reproduced at home via a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 Singles
Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being 1968 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, elected leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Australian Senate, Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolandz
Rolandz is a dansband from Sweden, established in 2008 by Robert Gustafsson. The breakthrough was during a ''Dansbandskampen'' break appearance in 2008. In 2009, the band participated at ''Allsång på Skansen'' on 7 July 2009. Singer and lead man of Rolandz is the character Roland Järverup, whom Robert Gustafsson played in the 1999 movie '' Screwed in Tallinn'' by Killinggänget. Later, the idea was hatched to create Rolandz using the Roland Järverup character. Rolandz competed in Melodifestivalen 2018 Melodifestivalen 2018 was the 58th edition of the Swedish music competition Melodifestivalen, which selected Sweden's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. The competition was organised by (SVT) and took place over a six-week from 3 Febru ... with the song Fuldans, and finished in 10th place in the grand final. Discography Albums Singles DVDs *2009: ''Rolandz – the Movie'' *2010: ''Rolandz danzar igen'' *2011: ''Rolandz – Fadersjakten'' References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dansband
(; "dance band"), or in Norwegian and Danish, is a Swedish language, Swedish term for a band that plays (; "dance band music"). ' is often danced to in partner dance, pairs. Jitterbug and foxtrot music are often included in this category. The music is primarily inspired by schlager, country music, country, rock'n'roll and some swing music, swing. The main influence for rock-oriented bands is the rock music of the 1950s and 1960s. The terms ' and ' were coined around 1970, when Swedish popular music developed a signature style. The genre developed primarily in Sweden, but has spread to neighbouring countries Norway, Denmark and the Swedish-speaking population of Finland, Swedish-speaking regions of Finland. When the music came to Norway it was first called "" (from the Swedish radio music chart Svensktoppen, which was a major arena for dansband music before its rules changed in January 2003). A dansband often Tour (music), travels by bus, performing several times every week ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klamydia (band)
Klamydia () is a Finnish punk rock band from Vaasa, Finland. The band's name was chosen because it was the worst name that came to their minds. History The band was formed in 1988, and has been continuously active since then. The band publishes records in very short intervals (about one LP per year), and has experienced many line-up changes. The only remaining original member is the current vocalist, Vesa "Vesku" Jokinen. The band is notable for founding its own record company, Kråklund Records. Klamydia has always been renowned as a humor band, but they have a lot of songs criticizing society, and other songs about serious subjects like incest, as well as love songs. In the year 2001, Klamydia was rewarded by the city of Vaasa, who granted Klamydia a culture prize for their long and successful career. This aroused a lot of criticism in the city, because people did not appreciate rewarding a vulgar-styled humor band like Klamydia. The band itself took the whole thing as goo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eero Raittinen
Eero Raittinen (born 6 October 1944, Helsinki) is a Finnish pop, rock and blues singer and drummer. Starting in 1960, Raittinen performed in various bands, initially alongside his older brother Jussi Raittinen, but has mostly had a solo career spanning over sixty years. Among his better-known recordings are the Finnish cover versions of the Swedish ''Mälarö kyrka'' (1968) and the Italian '' Che sarà'' (1971). As of 2022, he is credited as a primary artist on 17 albums, including several for major labels such as RCA and Epic. He took part in the Finnish qualification for the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, but failed to get through to the final. His authorised biography ''Mies matkallaan: Eero Raittinen'' was published in 2020. His leg got amputated “thigh down” on March 8, 2025. File:Eero_Raittinen_SF-Blues_Tavastia_2023_2.jpg, Eero Raittinen performing with SF-Blues in 2023 at the Tavastia Club The Tavastia Club () is a popular rock music club in Helsinki, Finland. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite Estonia. Finland has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Helsinki. The majority of the population are Finns, ethnic Finns. The official languages are Finnish language, Finnish and Swedish language, Swedish; 84.1 percent of the population speak the first as their mother tongue and 5.1 percent the latter. Finland's climate varies from humid continental climate, humid continental in the south to boreal climate, boreal in the north. The land cover is predominantly boreal forest biome, with List of lakes of Finland, more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first settled around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period, last Ice Age. During the Stone Age, various cultures emerged, distinguished by differen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Language
Finnish (endonym: or ) is a Finnic languages, Finnic language of the Uralic languages, Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland, alongside Swedish language, Swedish. In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. Kven language, Kven, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in the Norway, Norwegian counties of Troms and Finnmark by a minority of Finnish descent. Finnish is morphological typology, typologically agglutinative language, agglutinative and uses almost exclusively Suffix, suffixal affixation. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, Numeral (linguistics), numerals and verbs are inflection, inflected depending on their role in the Sentence (linguistics), sentence. Sentences are normally formed with subject–verb–object word order, alth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svensk Mediedatabas
Svensk mediedatabas (''Swedish Media Database'') is a search engine for the audiovisual works of the National Library of Sweden. The database contains data about TV, radio, video, movies that have been shown in cinemas, gramophone records, CDs, cassette tapes, video games and multimedia. The SMDB contains most Swedish broadcasts and publications since 1979, but also older works. There is an almost complete list of Swedish gramophone records starting from the end of the 19th century. The SMDB also contains information about special collections such as older advertisement films and video recordings from Swedish theatres. {{As of, 2011, the database contains information about nearly eight million hours of audiovisual content. Database The database contains information about the following, starting from 1979: *TV and radio broadcasts by Sveriges Radio, Sveriges Television, Utbildningsradion and TV4 *TV shows that have been broadcast using Swedish digital terrestrial television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nyckelharpa
''Nyckelharpa'' (, roughly "keyed fiddle" in Swedish language, Swedish, , plural: ) is a "keyed" Bowed string instrument, bowed chordophone, primarily originating from Sweden in its modern form, but with its historical roots scattered across medieval Europe. It is similar in appearance to a fiddle or Violin family, violin but larger (in its earlier forms essentially a modified vielle), which employs key-actuated tangents along the neck to change the pitch during play, much like a hurdy-gurdy. The keys slide under the strings, with the tangents set perpendicularly to the keys, reaching above the strings. Upon key-actuation, the tangent is pressed to meet the corresponding string, much like a fret, shortening its vibrating length to that point, changing the pitch of the string. It is primarily played underarm, suspended from the shoulder using a Sling (firearms), sling, with the bow in the overhanging arm. The origin of the instrument is unknown, but its historical foothold and mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
