`Det låg ett skimmer över Gustafs dagar (There was a shimmer during the Gustavian days)`

Filmed	18 June 1976
Location	Royal Opera House, Stockholm, Sweden
Broadcast	18 June 1976 LIVE and repeated 25 December 1976, Sweden
Released	This clip has been released officially on ABBA - The Definitive Collection. Benny clip broadcast on K Special on 4 May 2012, SVT, Sweden
Notes	This entry previously named "Royal Gala" but has now been corrected with its correct title (which is a quote from a famous poem by the Swedish poet Esaias Tegnér) A special Gala on the eve of the wedding of King Carl Gustav to Silvia Sommerlath. ABBA were the only pop act on the show. It was felt that the song had been especially written for the future Queen Silvia but this was not the case as it had been written the previous year and performed earlier in 1976 in Germany for Musikladen (The Best of ABBA) (January 1976) in and in Australia in for ABBA in Australia/ABBA Down Under in (March 1976). Click here to see pictures from the dress rehearsal On 4 May 2012, Swedish channel, SVT broadcast the programme K Special about opera singer Kjerstin Dellert. One very brief clip in the programme showed her performance of 'O, min Carl Gustaf' where she was accompanied on the accordion by Benny. See a brief clip here (around 3.05 mins) but only until 3 June 2012
Duration	just under 4 minutes
Watch Out For	The fact there are no close-ups of Frida in the whole clip
Transcript
Lyrics	Click on song title for the song lyrics and recording information: Dancing Queen
Pictures	Click on a thumbnail for a larger view: Benny playing accordion to accompany opera singer Kjerstin Dellert as broadcast on K Special, 4 May 2012:
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Credits	Thanks to Carl Magnus Palm, Melinda, Dustin, Jozsef, Ian Cole, Harold Hanlon and Intermezzo Magazine for information.