Främling
Encyclopedia
Främling is an album
from Swedish
pop
singer Carola Häggkvist
, released on March 26, 1983. It was her debut album. On the album charts, the albums peaked at number 1 in Sweden
and number 2 in Norway
.
"Främling" is Stranger in English. An English language version was released, Love isn't love.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
from Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer Carola Häggkvist
Carola Häggkvist
Carola Maria Häggkvist , better known as simply Carola, is a Swedish singer and occasional songwriter. She has been among Sweden's most popular performers since the early 1980s, and has released albums ranging from pop and disco to hymns and folk music...
, released on March 26, 1983. It was her debut album. On the album charts, the albums peaked at number 1 in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
and number 2 in Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
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"Främling" is Stranger in English. An English language version was released, Love isn't love.
Track listing
- "FrämlingFrämling (song)"Främling" , written by Lasse Holm and Monica Forsberg and arranged by Lennart Sjöholm, was the song performed by the 16-year-old Carola Häggkvist which won the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1983....
" (Lasse HolmLasse HolmLars-Eric Gustav "Lasse" Holm, born 9 December 1943 in Stockholm, Sweden, is known as a composer, lyricist and singer.Since childhood, he was interested in music and was a member of a lot of pop music and rock music groups in the 1960s: Doug and the Millsmen, The Spacemen and The Moonlighters...
- Monica ForsbergMonica ForsbergMonica Yvonne Forsberg is a Swedish singer, songwriter and actress. She was a member in the group Ritz, which competed in Melodifestivalen in 1983 and 1985...
) - "Säg mig var du stårWhy Tell Me Why"Why Tell Me Why" is a 1981 song performed by Dutch singer Anita Meyer and it is one of her most notable songs. The song was composed by Piet Souer and produced by Martin Duiser...
" ("Why, tell me why") (M. Duiser, G. Elias, P. Souer - Ingela ForsmanIngela ForsmanIngela Birgitta "Pling" Forsman is a Swedish lyricist in popular music. 1981–2009, 33 of her songs have competed in the Swedish Melodifestivalen, three of them winners: Bra vibrationer , Se på mej and Kärleken är...
) - "Benjamin" (M. Duiser, G. Elias - Ingela Forsman)
- "Gör det någonting" (Torgny SöderbergTorgny SöderbergSten Torgny Söderberg is a Swedish songwriter. He has worked a lot together with Lena Philipsson and written schlager songs such as 100%, Kärleken är evig and Diggi-loo diggi-ley. Diggi-loo diggi-ley won the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1984 and even the Eurovision Song Contest 1984.- References :...
- Monica Forsberg) - "Gloria" (Giancarlo Bigazzi, Umberto TozziUmberto TozziUmberto Antonio Tozzi is an Italian pop/rock singer and composer, born in Turin. His most internationally famous song is "Gloria" -Biography:...
- Ingela Forsman) - "You Bring out the Best in Me" (B. Findon - M. Myers)
- "MickeyMickey (song)"Mickey" is a 1982 U.S. new wave song recorded by singer and choreographer Toni Basil. Written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn as "Kitty", it was first recorded by UK popular music group Racey during 1979...
" (Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman - Ingela Forsman) - "Se på mig" (Lasse Holm - Ingela Forsman)
- "Liv" (Lasse Holm - Ingela Forsman)
- "Visa lite mänsklighet" ("A Little Tenderness") (M. Leeson, P. Vale - Liza Öhman)
- "14 maj" (T. Cliff, B. Wade - Ingela Forsman)
- "Du försvinner i natten" ("Paris Dies in the Morning") (A. McCrorie-Shand, L. Sayer - Liza Öhman)
Trivia
- Främling was also written with text versions in GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, DutchDutch languageDutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
and EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
as, respectively, Fremder, Je ogen hebben geen geheimen and Love isn't Love.