Klara skivan KLA 7802-2 Joddlarflickan (2 CDs), originally recorded: 1939–51.Vax Records CD 1000 Early recordings 1939–1949.Naxos 8.120759 Swingflickan, originally recorded: 1939–44.Vax Records CD 1003 Alice Babs & Nisse Linds Hot-trio, originally recorded: 1939–41.The following is a list of her recordings available on CD, listed chronologically from when they were originally recorded. Naturröstens hemlighet, 2008 documentary)Īlice Babs' discography includes more than 800 recordings since her debut with Joddlarflickan in 1939. Alice Babs förlorade rättigheter ( Alice Babs' Lost Rights, 2013 documentary).Deathīabs died of complications from Alzheimer's disease at age 90 on 11 February 2014 in Stockholm. In their later years, they returned to Sweden. At the end of Alice Babs' career, mother and daughter again toured together.ġ973–2004 Babs and her husband resided in Costa del Sol (in Spain), while still working in Sweden and internationally. Titti Sjöblom appeared with her mother in recordings and radio shows from the mid-1950s, and also on an early-1960s advertising for Toy Chewing Gum (see inset). Their three children are Lilleba Sjöblom Lagerbäck (born 1945), Lars-Ivar (Lasse) Sjöblom (born 1948), and Titti Sjöblom (born 1949). In 1963, her recording of "After You've Gone" (Fontana) reached No. Her voice had a range of more than three octaves Ellington said that when she was not available to sing the parts that he had written for her, he had to use three different singers. Among other works, Babs participated in performances of Ellington's second and third Sacred Concerts which he had written originally for her. The group would later tour the United States together, before dissolving in 1965.Ī long and productive period of collaboration with Duke Ellington began in 1963.
The same year, she formed Swe-Danes with guitarist Ulrik Neumann and violinist Svend Asmussen. In 1958, she was the first artist to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest, finishing in 4th place with the song "Lilla stjärna" ("Little Star"). A vicar called the Babs cult the "foot and mouth disease of cultural life". Despite being cast as the well-behaved, good-hearted, cheerful girl, the youth culture forming with Babs as its icon caused outrage among members of the older generation. More information about Alice Babs on Wikipedia.After making her breakthrough in the film Swing it magistern ('Swing It, Teacher!', 1940), she appeared in more than a dozen Swedish-language films. Copying, also of extracts, or any other form of reproduction, including the adaptation into electronic data bases and copying onto any data mediums, in English or in any other language is permissible only and exclusively with the written consent of Bear Family Records® GmbH. In 2002 she was awarded a Swedish Jazz Prize.Ĭopyright © Bear Family Records®. In 1975 she performed at the Newport Jazz Festival. She recorded an album with Duke Ellington and toured Sweden with him in 1973. Her trademark: onomatopoeic imitations of instruments. Better remembered than her German hits are the recordings she made with Svend Asmussen and Ulrik Neumann as the'Swe-Danes'. In 1958 she took part in the Grand Prix for Sweden and reached the fourth place. Together with Paul Kuhn she even revived the old Fred Raymond title In a small pastry shop. Alice Babs' discography also contains the typical cover versions of American songs like Lollipop, Nur du, du allein (To Know Him Is To Love Him) and Darling, you know! (You Send Me).
In the first part of the song she sings about Nils and Ulla, who, like the lyricist Hans Bradtke put in her mouth, dance through Stockholm - and find: "Oh, life is beautiful", and in the second part she performs her scat singing, which has become famous in Sweden. Ole Dole Dei shows the two sides of the Alice Babs: the German pop singer and the Swedish jazz entertainer.
Another parallel with Bibi Johns, who worked with Lehn for a long time. Already as a teenager she played a role in the movie'Swing it magistern' (1940), and despite her cheerful, girlish image she turned the older generation against her with her jazz singing.Īlice was welcomed with open arms in Germany, an economic wonderland, when she made her first appearance with Erwin Lehns Südfunk Dance Orchestra in Stuttgart in 1954. The first name Alice, which also sounds like a pseudonym, is real: Hildur Alice Nilsson was born on Januin Kalmar (Sweden). When Alice Babs came to Germany, she had already established herself at home as a jazz singer. Bibi and Babs - only from the names one could confuse the two'Swedish girls' of the 50s hit, but not in vocal style.
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