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| Cornelis Vreeswijk discography | |
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| Studio albums | 27 |
| Live albums | 7 |
| Compilation albums | 13 |
This article presents the Swedish discography of Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish composer, singer, and guitar player.
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| Cornelis Vreeswijk discography | |
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| Studio albums | 27 |
| Live albums | 7 |
| Compilation albums | 13 |
This article presents the Swedish discography of Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish composer, singer, and guitar player.
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Visor och oförskämdheter is a live album, featuring Swedish folk musicians Cornelis Vreeswijk, Fred Åkerström and Ann-Louise Hanson. It was recorded live in Stockholms Concert hall in December 1964. Prior to this album, Vreeswijk was forced to decide whether or not to continue his studies or pursue music. He decided to stop studying and embarked on a tour with Fred Åkerström and Ann-Louise Hanson, during which this album was recorded.
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Ulla! min Ulla! säj, får jag dig bjuda, is one of the Swedish poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman's best-known and best-loved songs, from his 1790 collection, Fredman's Epistles, where it is No. 71. A pastoral, it depicts the Rococo muse Ulla Winblad, as the narrator offers her "reddest strawberries in milk and wine" in the Djurgården countryside north of Stockholm.
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