Den stora utflykten eller Vem har snott midsommarkransen? = The Big Outing or Who has woven the Midsummer wreath?  (As is the case with so many of these programme titles, there is a pun here. “Snott” could indeed mean “woven” but it’s also slang for “stolen”. So there is an intended pun here).

This bizarre mid-summer show stars Frida, Lasse (Lars) Berghagen, Svenne Hedlund (from The Hep Stars) and Finn Alberth in equal measure.  The first we see of Frida is her and Lasse Berghagen taking a phone call, packing a back, jumping in a sack and then cycling off to an island somewhere.

The first song of the programme appears to be each of them in turn singing about their favourite (or the best?) part of a human body!  Frida sings in favour of "the finger" - Länge leve fingret! (Long Live the Finger!)

She sings two duets with Lasse Berghagen - Vi vet allt men nästan inget (We Know Everything But Almost Nothing) and En kväll om sommaren (A Summer Night).

There is a black and white feature about a pair of little children and a rag doll - I don't understand what that's about but it seems quite sinister.

Frida also walks into the forest with a little girl and sings De’ e’ någe’ visst me’ de’ (There’s A Certain Something About That), a song that was also recorded by The Hootenanny Singers in 1972. The song was written for the film Rasmus and the Vagabond (Luffaren och Rasmus, 1955) based on Astrid Lindgren's book. The clip could be seen as a homage to the movie. The film is about an orphan boy who becomes friend with a hobo, and this song is sung by the both of them as they walk along a country road and possibly in a forest and the lyrics are about appreciating the things that they see in the nature.

Also featured was a bizarre clip of Svenne Hedlund singing and then the camera goes to Frida, Finn Alberth and Lasse Berghagen dressed as Tarzan and Jane singing Gitarzan.

A reprise of the four (Frida, Lars, Svenne Hedlund and Finn Alberth) singing En kväll om sommaren takes place at the end of the show. 

Click here for TV listing information.

The whole programme was made available on SVT Open Archive for a while but has been removed.

The video links here are:

1. the whole programme
2. the Frida bits only!

Vi vet allt och nästan inget (We Know Everything And Almost Nothing)

Här sitter vi och ser
På TV-program 
Vi ser på Harlems slum 
På kriget i Vietnam 

Och vi förstår, att det vi ser är sanning
En stackars själ, i Satans garn 
Och vi vet allt, men nästan inget 
Om våra barn

Vi talar om välfärd
Och att allt är bra
Vi talar om Ryssland
Och om USA

Och sedan löser vi världsproblemen
Med hjälp av det vi hört på stand
Och vi vet allt, men nästan inget
Om våra barn

Så diskuterar vi 
Och säger si och så 
Och så adderar vi 
Så ett och tre blir två 

Och talar illa om vår granne 
Han är annorlunda, den där karln 
Och vi vet allt, men nästan inget 
Om våra barn

Vi vet, att knark idag 
Blir utbrett mer och mer 
Men struntar helt i det 
Som vi inte ser 

Men ända börjar vi att skälla 
På sociala papperskvarn 
Och vi vet allt, men nästan inget 
Om våra barn

 

Thanks to Renée Lelieveld, Sam Shervz, Evelyn Nuyens, Micke Andersson, Petri Kaasalainen, Pepe, Steve Rogers, Jürgen Parys, Diego Lcl, Guido, Steve Layton, Carl Magnus Palm, Patrick Smith, Robin Andersson c/o All About ABBA (no longer online), Niklas Albinsson-Collander, Jeffrey de Hart c/o ABBAMAIL (no longer online), Frank Axelsson, Jozsef and fanzine ABBA Remember. 
Extra thanks to Peter Palmquist for information on Dé é någé visst mé dé.
YouTube link c/o inomadi100 and Sanna Sonja