Brita Borg

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Brita Kerstin Gunvor Borg (June 10, 1926 – May 4, 2010) was a Swedish singer, actress, and variety show artist. Her variety show career spanned from 1943 into the 1970s, while her singing career trailed away at the end of the 1960s. However, she was still an active actress in the 1980s. Borg represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 in Cannes. Borg was born on Södermalm in Stockholm and began her career in the Södermalm-based variety show group Vårat gäng ("Our Gang") after having won a song competition which the magazine Vecko-Revyn organised in 1943. In 1945, she formed the quartet Flickery Flies with Allan Johansson, whom she later married. In 1947, she began her long collaboration with famous Swedish variety performer and writer Povel Ramel. She participated in his radio program Fyra kring en flygel ("Four around a grand piano") and was prima donna in several versions of the Knäppupp variety show between 1952 and 1962. Amongst her most famous numbers were Fat Mammy Brown, where she played an African-American jazz/gospel singer in blackface and fat padding, the tango Banne mej from the variety musical Funny Boy, where she played the seductive Gypsy girl Zamora, and Ulliga krulliga gubbar, a satirical Dixieland ballad about how modern it would have been to have a beard. When the prolific comedy duo Hasse Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson were writing for Knäppupp they provided her with songs such as Alla kan ju inte älska alla här i världen ("Everyone can't love

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The EP-Collection 1957-1963

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Gamla Goa Svensktoppar

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Det var bättre förr Volym 4 b 1946-50

Favoriter från förr - 20 originalinspelningar från 1947-1956

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När schlagern dog

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Svenska klassiker

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Svenska År: 1949 - Ett Dubbelnöje

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Povel Ramel / De bästa av Povels mångsidor - Karamelodier i kategorier

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Evert Taube/Musik vi minns

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Eurovision 1959 - Cannes

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Povel Ramel/Som om inget hade hänt: Povel-pop från förra årtusendet!

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Povel Ramels "Funny Boy"

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