Knutsen & Ludvigsen

A Norwegian children’s music duo of cult stature, Knutsen & Ludvigsen were primarily dynamic through the 1970s and early to mid-’80s and peaked in success in 1983 using the award-winning album Juba Juba. Following the turn from the hundred years, the duo produced something of the return, time for the limelight for some reunion concerts. Made up of vocalist/songwriters Øystein Dolmen and Gustav Lorentzen, the duo produced its eponymous recording debut in 1970 with Knutsen og Ludvigsen. Second recording Knutsen og Ludvigsen: Brunost No Igjæn? (1972) brought the duo essential acolades by means of a Spellemannprisen (i.e., Norwegian Grammy honor) for Greatest Children’s Music. The follow-up recording, Knutsen og Ludvigsen Nr. 3: Tut (1974), was followed from the launch of an attribute film, Knutsen & Ludvigsen (1974), a humor starring the duo. A few more full-length attempts, Ned Med Nidaros (1975) and Du Milde Mosart! (1976), adopted prior to the duo receded from your album market place for the rest of the 10 years. Through the early to middle-’80s Knutsen & Ludvigsen released just a few albums — Fiskepudding! Lakrisbåter! (1980), Juba Juba (1983), and Knutsen & Ludvigsen Samleplate (1984), the second option a retrospective compilation — and received another Spellemannprisen (in 1983 for Juba Juba, that was also a industrial blockbuster success, heading completely to number 3 within the Norwegian albums graph and spawning a theatre adaptation). From your mid-’80s onward, the duo essentially place its take action to rest. Through the middle-’90s a circular of retrospective compilations, Knutsen & Ludvigsens Beste (1996) and Knutsen & Ludvigsens Ver’ste’ (1997), sparked a revival appealing in the duo’s music; the former launch was particularly well-known, reaching the Best Five from the Norwegian graphs. After the change of the hundred years, Knutsen & Ludvigsen produced something of the return, performing some reunion concerts from 2004. These latter-day shows additional solidified the duo’s cult position among thirty- and fortysomething Norwegians who was raised listening to traditional Knutsen & Ludvigsen music such as for example “Grevling I Taket,” “Hallo! Hallo!,” and “Dum Og Deilig.” Released in the wake from the duo’s return shows, the retrospective compilation Dum og Deilig: Knutsen & Ludvigsens Beste (2008) was a high Ten hit.