*" Leva livet " by Lill-Babs ( originally " It's My Party " by Leslie Gore )

"), written for Swedish singer Lill-Babs.

One of the more unusual merits in Lill-Babs ' career took place in October 1963 as she guested on Swedish TV show Drop In, broadcast live, and afterwards signed autographs for a starstruck and at the time up and coming British band from Liverpool making one of their first international TV appearances on the same show ; the name of the band was The Beatles.

Having three daughters-all with different fathers, and having married several times as well, Lill-Babs has also unwillingly been a permanent feature in the Swedish tabloid press for the past four decades.

During the 1970s he worked tirelessly as a poet and as a song-contest lyricist, including writing for the 1973 Swedish Eurovision Song Contest entry selection round ( Melodifestivalen ) and for performer Lill-Babs in 1980.

Lill-Babs ( born Barbro Margareta Svensson on 9 March 1938 ) is a Swedish singer and actress.

At the age of 73 Lill-Babs is still going strong, often affectionately referred to as Sweden's " grand old lady " in show business and still frequently touring Sweden.

Anderson would go on to write several of Lill-Babs ' hits in the 1960s and in the early 1970s he would gain international fame and success as the manager of ABBA.

He was married to singer Barbro " Lill-Babs " Svensson from 1965 to 1968.

The first broadcast was a live variety show from Oslo Cabaret with Swedish singer Lill-Babs and Norwegian pop group Tomboy as musical guests.

Lill-Babs was born in Järvsö, Gävleborg County, as the first daughter of Britta and Ragnar Svensson.

Just as her fame was beginning to grow, the unmarried Lill-Babs became pregnant-a potential public scandal in Sweden of the mid-1950s.

From December 1999 to March 2000, Samuelson sang and performed popular songs and poems written by legendary Lars Forssell together with the two vocalists Barbro " Lill-Babs " Svensson and Evabritt Strandberg in a show called " Showtime-A Tribute to Lars Forssell ".

During this time Lill-Babs did much of her work in West Germany, where many of her records, television shows, and movies were produced.

In 1974, Lill-Babs played the lead in the Swedish cast of musical Annie Get Your Gun, directed by writer and TV-personality Åke Falck.

Lill-Babs received an offer to tour with Brehm's competing band leader Kettil Olsson.

Some Swedish easy listening / contemporary groups and artists who are not as well-known internationally but are recognized in Sweden include Gyllene Tider, Peter Jöback, Lill-Babs Svensson, Marie Fredriksson, Laleh, Per Gessle, Ted Gärdestad, Helen Sjöholm, Charlotte Perrelli, Loreen, Lena Philipsson and Patrik Isaksson.

In 1954, she recorded her first record " Min mammas boogie " under the name " Lill-Babs.

Lill-Babs and The Beatles, 1963.

-short for " The Collective Consciousness Society "-which had several hit singles produced by Mickie Most, including a version of Led Zeppelin's " Whole Lotta Love ", which was used as the theme for BBC's Top Of The Pops between 1971 and 1981.

Disco hit the television airwaves with Soul Train in 1971 hosted by Don Cornelius, then Marty Angelo's Disco Step-by-Step Television Show in 1975, Steve Marcus ' Disco Magic / Disco 77, Eddie Rivera's Soap Factory and Merv Griffin's Dance Fever, hosted by Deney Terrio, who is credited with teaching actor John Travolta to dance for his upcoming role in the hit movie Saturday Night Fever.

On April 27, 1971, Aaron hit his 600th career home run, the third player ever to do so.

This motif is evidenced in the era of " paranoid soul " such as " Smiling Faces Sometimes " ( released by The Temptations in April 1971, and made a hit by The Undisputed Truth in July 1971 ), " I'll Take You There " ( The Staples Singers, 1972 ), " Don't Call Me Brother " ( The O ' Jays, 1973 ), " Back Stabbers " ( The O ' Jays ), and " You Caught Me Smilin ( Sly and the Family Stone, 1971 ).

Dutch band Focus, containing Thijs van Leer and Jan Akkerman, began to assert symphonic prog with their second album Focus II ( Moving Waves ) ( 1971 ) despite their hit song " Hocus Pocus " ( which is noted for lead singer Thijs van Leer's yodeling ).

Often cited as the moment of inception is his appearance on the UK TV programme Top of the Pops in March 1971 wearing glitter and satins, to perform what would be his second UK Top 10 hit ( and first UK Number 1 hit ), " Hot Love ".

The decline in cinema attendance in this period meant that many of these series were turned into cinema films ; the first film version of On the Buses ( 1969 – 75 ) was the biggest hit at the British box office in 1971.

His four children with Nancy are: Nancy Moore Thurmond ( 1971 – 1993 ), a beauty pageant contestant who was killed when a drunk driver hit her in Columbia, South Carolina ; James Strom Thurmond Jr. ( born 1972 ), who became U. S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and is the current South Carolina 2nd Judicial Circuit Solicitor ; Juliana Gertrude ( Thurmond ) Whitmer ( born 1974 ), a married homemaker in Washington, DC ; and Paul Reynolds Thurmond ( born 1976 ), elected member of the Charleston County council.

She delivered them one last success with the gold-selling album Blessed Are ... ( 1971 ) which spawned a top-ten hit in Robbie Robertson's " The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ", her cover of The Band's signature song.

Recorded and released on the American Pie album in 1971, the single was a number-one U. S. hit for four weeks in 1972.

Jackson hit a memorable home run in the 1971 All-Star Game at Tiger Stadium in Detroit.

However, Kansas City once again lost to the Yankees in the ALCS, but not before Brett hit three home runs off Catfish Hunter in Game Three, becoming the second player to hit three home runs in an LCS game ( Bob Robertson was the first, having done so in Game two of the 1971 National League Championship Series ).

In 1971, the group released Focus II ( aka Moving Waves ), which brought the band international acclaim and a hit on both sides of the Atlantic with the radio edit of " Hocus Pocus ".

A 1971 rock-and-roll revival concert at the Garden, featuring Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and Ricky Nelson, during which Nelson was reportedly booed when he played newer material, is thought to have been the inspiration for his 1972 hit single " Garden Party ".

When the album itself was rejected by Reprise, the song " Sail On, Sailor " ( a collaborative, Brian Wilson-led effort dating from 1971 ) was inserted at the instigation of Van Dyke Parks and released as the lead single ; it promptly garnered a considerable amount of FM radio play, became a minor chart hit, and entered the band's live sets as a concert staple.

Although he hit but 61 home runs over the next four years ( 1971 through 1974 ) as the Red Sox finished second twice and third twice, he finished in the top 10 in batting, and top three in on base percentage and walks in 1973 and 1974, and led the league in runs scored in 1974.

Arlene Harden had a Top 40 country hit in 1971 with the Carl Perkins composition " True Love Is Greater Than Friendship " from the film Little Fauss and Big Halsy ( 1971 ) which reached no.

Bolinas ' beaches were hit hard by the 1971 San Francisco Bay oil spill, with the community coming together to clean the beach of crude oil.

The September 1999 flood disaster was the worst ever to hit Manville, although it had been flooded in 1971 during Tropical Storm Doria, when many of the Lost Valley houses were destroyed and their foundations lost, and previously before that in the 1950s.

This was produced by Eric Till as four hour-long episodes and broadcast on Wednesdays at 10: 00 p. m. ( Eastern ) from 24 November to 15 December 1971.

He directed Till Sex Do Us Part in 1971, a farce about a young married couple who believe they will die if they have sex, but most of his later films were less successful.

* Till Sex Do Us Part ( Troll ) ( 1971 )