Alice Babs

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Alice Babs

Hildur Alice Nilson (26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014), known by her stage name Alice Babs, was a Swedish singer. She worked in a wide number of genres – Swedish folklore, Elizabethan songs and opera. While she was best known internationally as a jazz singer, Babs also competed as Sweden's first annual competition entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958. In 1972 she was named Sweden's Royal Court Singer, the first non-opera singer as such.

Birth and Death Data: Born January 26, 1924 (Kalmar domkyrkoförsamling), Died February 11, 2014 (Stockholm)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1956

Roles Represented in DAHR: vocalist

= Recordings are available for online listening.
= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings

Company	Matrix No.	Size	First Recording Date	Title	Primary Performer	Description	Role	Audio
Decca	DU 1199		9/12/1956*	Hilly Billy Willy	Alice Babs		vocalist
Decca	DU 1200		9/12/1956*	Ding ding a'ling, ding a'long	Alice Babs		vocalist

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Babs, Alice," accessed November 13, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/302457.

Babs, Alice. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 13, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/302457.

"Babs, Alice." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 13 November 2024.