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Ã…ke Gerhard (Utansjö, Ã…ngermanland, 26 March 1921 – 20 August 2009) was a Swedish songwriter. His songs won the title for the first three years of Sweden's Melodifestival: In 1958 "
Lilla stjärna "Lilla stjärna" (; literally "Little star") is song performed by Alice Babs with music composed by Åke Gerhard and Swedish lyrics written by . It in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958, held in Hilversum. It was Sweden's first song in the con ...
" Little star sung by
Alice Babs Hildur Alice Nilson (26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014), known by her stage name Alice Babs, was a Swedish singer. She worked in a wide number of genres – Swedish folklore, Elizabethan songs and opera. While she was best known internationall ...
, in 1959 "Augustin" sung by
Siw Malmkvist Siw Gunnel Margareta Malmkvist (born 31 December 1936) is a Swedish schlager singer and actress popular in Scandinavia and West Germany (today's Germany). She represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 and West Germany in the Eurovi ...
with lyrics by Harry Sandin (performed by
Brita Borg Brita Kerstin Gunvor Borg (10 June 1926 – 4 May 2010) was a Swedish singer, actress, and variety show artist. Her variety show career spanned from 1943 into the 1970s, while her singing career trailed away at the end of the 1960s. However, ...
at Eurovision) and in 1960 " Alla andra får varann" Everyone else gets each other with lyrics by Ulf Kjellqvist. In 1964, Gerhard founded
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Olga Records. Named after his mother, the label was distributed through another Swedish record company, Cupol. In 1964, he signed rock quintet Hep Stars to the label, a band which became Olga's biggest success, achieving eight number ones on Kvällstoppen and five on ''
Tio i Topp ''Tio i Topp'' ( English: ''Ten at the Top'') was a Swedish record chart and radio program broadcast by Sveriges Radio P3 between the years of 1961 and 1974. It was launched to combat pirate radio charts and was the first official Swedish record c ...
'' between 1965 and 1967. However, after the Hep Stars success gradually started diminishing in 1968–1970, the label lost a lot of its generated income and as a result, the final release on the label was issued in 1971.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gerhard, Ake 1921 births 2009 deaths Swedish songwriters People from Härnösand Municipality