The Hootenanny Singers are a popular folk group from Västervik, Sweden, founded in 1961. The group included Björn Ulvaeus, who later became a member of ABBA. Other band members were Johan Karlberg, Tonny Rooth and Hansi Schwarz. The group was named "The Northern Lights" for a US-released LP in 1966.
"Ack Värmeland, du sköna" or "Värmlandsvisan" is a Swedish popular song, best known in the English-speaking world as "Dear Old Stockholm".
The Military ranks of Finland are the military insignia used by the Finnish Defence Forces. The ranks incorporates features from Swedish, German, and Russian armed forces. In addition, the system has some typically Finnish characteristics that are mostly due to the personnel structure of the Finnish Defence Forces. The ranks have official names in Finnish and Swedish languages and official English translations. The Swedish forms are used in all Swedish-languages communications in Finland, e.g. in Swedish-speaking units of Finnish Defence Force. The system of ranks in the Swedish Armed Forces is slightly different.
Allting som ni gör kan jag göra bättre is the eighth studio album by Swedish pop and rock artist Magnus Uggla. It was released in 1987. The album consists only of cover songs. The title is a reference to both the fact that the entire album is cover songs, "you" being the original artists, and also a call-back to the musical Annie Get Your Gun. Most of the songs are famous recordings from the progg era.
Svante Thuresson was a Swedish jazz musician. He started his career as a drummer before joining the band Gals and Pals in 1963. Svante won the national selection and represented Sweden in the Eurovision song contest in 1966 with Nygammal vals and came in second place; he performed with Lill Lindfors.
Box 1991–2008 is a summary of Swedish alternative rock band Kent's career. The Box contains almost everything the group has ever recorded between 1991 and 2008. It contains every B-side, many demo recordings and every studio album. It also contains the first official live recording the group has ever made of a concert, a live recording of a new, previously unreleased song called "Håll ditt huvud högt" made during a concert in the band's hometown of Eskilstuna in July 2008.
Kerstin Thorvall was an influential Swedish novelist.
'De första åren' is a box set by Swedish pop singer and ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog, released in 2004.
The Oath of Allegiance of Sweden was an oath of allegiance to the King of Sweden that had to be taken by all senior public officeholders in Sweden before assuming office. It was abolished when the present-day Instrument of Government came into force on 1 January 1975.
Häxan Surtant, also called "Världens suraste och elakaste häxa", is a Swedish fictional character who appears on SVT. Four TV series about Häxan Surtant have been broadcast and all of them are directed and written by Carl Englén. The narrator, who always appears, is Sven Björklund. On 28 August 2009 Häxan Surtant received the Kristallen Award for being "the 2009 best children's TV program".
The World of Tosh is an animated series based on the Sune books by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson, and produced by the animation studios Happy Life together with German EM.TV & Merchandising and Irish Magma Films, following Peter Gustafsson purchasing the rights for an animated version of Sune in 1995.
Bianca Alicia Kronlöf is a Sweden-Finnish actress, comedian and screenwriter.
Leif Bloms was a dansband in Växjö in Sweden. scoring chart successes at the Swedish album chart during the mid-late 1970s. On 31 December 1995 the band was disbanded after singing and playing together for almost 40 years. Starting with the 1981 album Håll dig kvar, the band's singer was Mona Gustafsson, who wrote the band's 1992 song "Dej ska jag älska all min tid" which won the 1992 Hänt song contest in Älvsjö. After the band was disbanded, Mona Gustafsson, Patrik Ahlm and René Saulesco founded another dansband, Mona G:s orkester.
Våra bästa år is a 2007 Thorleifs double compilation album. Seven of the songs were new back then. Outside Sweden, special versions of the album were released in Denmark, Finland and Norway. On the album charts, it peaked at 24th position in Denmark, and 7th position in Sweden.
All Included is an Arvingarna compilation album, originally supposed to be released on 18 April 2007 before the release was postponed one week, to 25 April 2007.
Thor-Erics was a dansband in Hyssna, Sweden. The band was established in 1963 and performed for last time on 27 December 1999. The band appeared at TV in Sweden and Norway several times. Nick Borgen performed with the band by the late 1970s and early 1980s.
"Sladdbarn" is a Swedish term to refer to a child who is born much later than their other siblings. The terms differ from the colloquial English expression "oops baby" which simply refers to any unplanned birth. There are similar terms for the concept in many other Nordic languages and some others.
Daniel Olin, is a Finland Swedish talk show produced and broadcast by Finland's national public broadcast company Yle from 2019 to 2022. In the talk show, the host Daniel Olin is visited by a well-known and socially significant person. The conversation focuses on the guest's life, career and personal experiences. The first program was broadcast on 6 April 2019 and the last on 17 April 2022.
Mårten Adolfsson Melin is a Swedish author of children's and youth books, who received the Astrid Lindgren Prize in 2022.
Military oath in the Estonian Defence Forces is taken by conscripts or professional soldiers in the end of their basic training. The oath is also given by volunteers of the Estonian Defence League, when they complete their basic training.
