SKÅNSKA LASSE: DE RYSLIGA BOSJEVIKERNA

Comedian and songwriter Theodor Larsson (1880-1937) -- also known as Skånska Lasse -- was probably Sweden's best satirical songwriter in the late 1910s and early 1920s. He was a "bondkomiker" which means that he sang humorous folk songs often written from the view of the farmer or at least from the countryside. Often the songs of that genre was about modern inventions and things in the modern society that the ordinary people had problems understanding. He wrote songs like "Johan på Snippen" and "Motorcykeln" who became big hits for the recording star number one -- Ernst Rolf, but he also made his own recordings. Alas, I have not been lucky finding any of his recordings on 78 rpm records, but in 1971 Odeon released a compilation album with six of his recordings (he shared the space on the album with another "bondkomiker", the singer and comedian Kalle Nämndeman). I have chosen one of the tracks from that album and it is an ironic song about the growing socialism and the scary Bolshevik Russians -- it is not to be taken that seriously since Skånska Lasse himself was a Social Democrat. The same melody was sixty years later used by the music group Euskefeurat, for their song "Apparata" -- which is like a tribute to Skånska Lasse, since that song is also about modern inventions and how difficult they are to handle. The recording was originally made October 10, 1921 for the Gramophone Company's label "Concert Record Gramophone" -- you know the green one with the HMV dog and gramophone trademark. Note that between the verses and the chorus Skånska Lasse talks in a manner quite close to what we today call rap ... quite astonishing, isn't it?

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Education

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• Skånska Lasse
• bondkomik
• record collecting

[RickTitro]

Timbuktu har spelat in en riktigt bra version av denna låten också

[78rpmblog]

@RickTitro Hip-hoparna är väl kanske vår tids bondkomiker, då de ofta kommenterar samtiden - kanske dock inte med den humor som skulle behövas.

[hit004541]

@RickTitro Vad heter Timbuktus version?