Povel Ramel - Career - Some of His Most Famous Songs

Some of His Most Famous Songs

• Johanssons boogie woogie vals (Johansson's Boogie Woogie Waltz)
• Måste vägen till Curaçao gynga så (Why must the Boat to Curaçao sway like this)

Gynga is a broken Swedish version of Gunga (Swing/Sway)

This song was written by Povel on the M/S San Blas, in a storm, and sung at the stage in San Blas later.

• Släkt-huset (The Family House, mocking "the old family fam" theme)
• Högt uppe på berget (High up on the Mountain)

Swedish language version of On Top of Old Smoky

• Far, jag kan inte få upp min kokosnöt (Daddy, I Can't Break Open my Coconut)

Swedish language version of I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts, featured in My Life as a Dog

• Skratt (Laughs)

Presented with some "laughing types" as the engineer's laugh "Hoho hooooooooo" (Like a steam whistle), "ping-pong laugh" Ha-ha-

• Nya Skrytvalsen (The New Bragging Waltz)
• Tjo va de va livat i holken i lördags (Whoopee Whatta Bustle in the Nesting Box last Saturday)
• Naturbarn (Children of Nature)
• Är det nån som har en våning åt mej? (Anyone Got an Apartment for me?)
• Sorglösa brunn (Carefree Spa, a play based on his time in "Källviks brunn" in Loftahammar)
• Varför är där ingen is till punschen? (Why no Ice with the Punsch?, mocking the "good old days" theme)
• De sista entusiasterna (The Last Enthusiasts)
• Karl Nilsson
• Det skulle aldrig delfinerna göra (That, the Dolphins Would Never do)

A song about the fact that no dolphin would ever become a singer, as they are (as sung by Ramel) all too smart.

• Jag diggar dig (I dig you)

Anticipating rap music.

• While he almost exclusively worked in Swedish language, he has written at least one song in English, "The Sukiyaki Syndrome", about a visit to a Japanese restaurant, and others with a brief English introduction such as "Birth of the Gammeldans".