Jump to content

Nu tändas tusen juleljus (Agnetha Fältskog & Linda Ulvaeus album)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nu tändas tusen juleljus
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1981
RecordedNovember 1980
GenreChristmas music
Length32:48
LabelPolar Music
Producer
Agnetha Fältskog and Linda Ulvaeus chronology
Tio år med Agnetha
(1979)
Nu tändas tusen juleljus
(1981)
Wrap Your Arms Around Me
(1983)

Nu tändas tusen juleljus (Now a thousand Christmas candles are lit) is a Christmas album in Swedish, recorded in 1980 by Swedish pop singer and ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog and her daughter Linda Ulvaeus, who was at the time 7 years old.[1]

Album information

[edit]

The album was co-produced by Fältskog and Michael B. Tretow and recorded in the Polar Studios with the same musicians as on contemporary ABBA recordings. The album was recorded in November 1980 but since it wasn't completed in time for Christmas 1980 it was postponed and not released until nearly a year later, in October 1981. Nu tändas tusen julejus, which was Fältskog's first Swedish language recording for the Polar Music label after having left CBS-Cupol, peaked at No. 6 on the Swedish album chart in January 1982,[2] has been re-released on CD by Polar Music/PolyGram/Universal Music all through the 1990s and 2000s and is one of the best-selling Swedish Christmas albums of all time. The album name is derived from one of Scandinavia's best-known Christmas carols.

Track listing

[edit]
Side A
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead-VocalistLength
1."Nej se det snöar"Felix Körling 0:56
2."Bjällerklang" (Jingle Bells)Trad.-arr. Lars O. CarlssonAgnetha Fältskog2:34
3."Nu tändas tusen juleljus"Trad.-arr. Lars O. CarlssonLinda Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog2:40
4."Två små röda luvor"Trad.-arr. Lars O. CarlssonLinda Ulvaeus2:47
5."Nu står jul vid snöig port"Trad.-arr. Lars O. CarlssonAgnetha Fältskog2:32
6."Jag såg mamma kyssa tomten" (I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus)Tommie Connor, NinitaLinda Ulvaeus2:27
7."När juldagsmorgon glimmar"Trad.-arr. Lars O. CarlssonLinda Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog2:32
Total length:16:32
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead-VocalistLength
1."Potpurri"
a. "Nu har vi ljus här i vårt hus"
b. "Tre små pepparkaksgubbar"
c. "Räven raskar över isen"
d. "Vi äro musikanter"
e. "Hej tomtegubbar"
f. "Jungfru jungfru kär"
g. "Nu är det jul igen""

Trad.-arr. Lars O. Carlsson
Alice Tegnér, Astrid Gullstrand
Trad.-arr. Lars O. Carlsson
Trad.-arr. Lars O. Carlsson
Trad.-arr. Lars O. Carlsson
Trad.-arr. Lars O. Carlsson

Trad.-arr. Lars O. Carlsson

Linda Ulvaeus
Agnetha Fältskog, Linda Ulvaeus
Linda Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog
Linda Ulvaeus
Linda Ulvaeus
Agnetha Fältskog

Agnetha Fältskog, Linda Ulvaeus
(6:37)

0:48
0:49
0:54
0:57
0:47
1:13

0:44
2."Hej, mitt vinterland"Britt LindeborgLinda Ulvaeus2:30
3."Så milt lyser stjärnan"Trad.-arr. Lars O. CarlssonLinda Ulvaeus2:09
4."Mössens julafton"Ulf Peder Olrog, Alf ProysenAgnetha Fältskog2:26
5."När det lider mot jul"Ruben Liljefors, Jeanna OterdahlAgnetha Fältskog2:33
Total length:16:16

Weekly charts

[edit]
Chart (1981) Peak
position
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[3] 6

Personnel

[edit]

The following musicians contributed to the recording of Nu tändas tusen juleljus:[4]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Bright Lights, Dark Shows. Carl Magnus Palm.
  2. ^ Swedish charts. http://www.hitlistan.se Archived 2013-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Agnetha Fältskog & Linda Ulvaeus – Nu tändas tusen juleljus". swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  4. ^ Nu tändas tusen juleljus, album sleeve.