Still waiting for your first reaction on Alice Babs, Sweden's greatest female singer the last century. React to "Swing It, Magistern", which she did when she was only 16 years old - and already here you can hear her marvellous juggling with her voice. She later become the leading jazz singer, but was also singing popular music. She had a close cooperation with Duke Ellington, and was the only white person ever that was a singer in his band. Ellington's 2nd and 3rd Sacred Concerts were built around her extraordinarie singing span. She could sing 3½ octaves.
"Mig" is the formal way of saying "mej". It comes from old Norse "mik" and in the younger runic futhark the hard "g" and "k" are spelled with the same rune. However if I am not misstaken the forms sej, dej, mej etc is known in Swedish from 1500s or 1600s so they are old as well. However when Swedish got standardised in the late 1700s through the 1800s the forms sig, dig, mig was favoured and considered "correct". The softer versions still tagged along though in spoken language and dialects and in the 70s (I think) they became recognised and since the late 80s those forms was not just acceptable but taught as alternative forms in school. Still many (including me) uses the form "mig" when writing and "mej" when talking.
I'm originally from Finspång and I'm both pleased and surprised that you mentioned this. This isn't well known and sometimes people don't even belive my when I tell them about Risingevisan as it is called. The melody however originates from the Netherlands and probably came to Finspång with the Walloons working in the steel industry there in the 1600s.
I continue to lobby for the ultimate Christmas song: Alex F Rönnblom - Det är inte snön som faller. Christmas isn't complete until you see the video at least once.
Jag uppskattar din entusiasm och din goda musiksmak. Nästa gång som du väljer en sång som Jussi sjungit, lyssna då på "Nämner du Sverige". Den är så vacker och patriotisk och gör mig så rörd och glad. Glada hälsningar från Staffan i Nacka😊👍
Oooh this song + Jussi (the greatest tenor ever, even according to Pavarotti) =deep. I had pickled eggs in the UK, not bad, guess that's where they cone from.
One song that you can listen to is "O store gud". It's a Swedish song that Elvis had in his repertoire as a gospel. It's called "How great thou art". If you haven't heard that song, I think you'll like it.
