Songs for Daddy

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Songs for Daddy
Studio album by Jill Johnson
Released 22 October 2014 (2014-10-22)
Genre country, jazz
Label Lionheart
Jill Johnson chronology
Livemusiken från Jills veranda
(2014) Livemusiken från Jills veranda2014
Songs for Daddy
(2014)

Songs for Daddy is a 2014 Jill Johnson studio album. The album is a tribute to her father's music taste. [1]

Jill Johnson Swedish country and schlager singer

Jill Anna Maria Johnson is a Swedish country and pop singer and songwriter. She performed the Melodifestivalen 1998 winning song Kärleken är, and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 with that song, which finished 10th with 53 points. In 2003 she again entered Melodifestivalen with Crazy in Love, which finished fourth in the final. She also hosted the final of Melodifestivalen in 2005. Johnson is today one of the most successful artists in Sweden, with several Gold and Platinum records.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Crazy in Love
  2. Hallelujah I Love Him So
  3. Fly Me to the Moon
  4. Moon River
  5. Something's Gotta Give
  6. That's Life
  7. Love is Here to Stay
  8. The Very thought of You
  9. No other Daddy but You
  10. After You've Gone
  11. Everybody Loves Somebody
  12. I Can't Give You Anything but Love

Chart trajectory

Chart (2014)Peak position
Sweden 1 [2]

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References

  1. "Songs for Daddy" (in Swedish). Ginza musik. 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  2. "Songs for Daddy". Swedishcharts. 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014.