A Little Red Package: Sven-Ingvars and "Ett Litet Rött Paket"

We have a fun one for our random global tune for the day! The tune is called Ett Litet Rött Paket and is by the 60s-era Swedish pop and rock group Sven-Ingvars. Formed in 1956, Sven-Ingvars was extremely popular in Sweden during the 1960s and their popularity was such that in 1963, the opening act for the band was The Beatles. In the 1970s, the band moved more toward dance band music, which has become popular in the Scandinavian countries and which focuses on music that can be danced to in pairs - for rock oriented bands the music tends to be rock music of the 50s and 60s. Ett Litet Rött Paket was originally released as a single in 1963, but can be found on the 2016 Sven-Ingvars album Svensk Julmusik. Technically a holiday song, Sven-Ingvars changed some lyrics so that the month of December is changed to February, and the song describes the city of Uppsala.

Listen to songs like this and more on the KUNM Global Music Show every Monday night from 10 pm - 1 am Mountain Standard Time. Live streaming, program information and the two-week digital archive can be found at http://www.kunm.org.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven-Ingvars; https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven-Ingvars