Taylor Swift, charming and radiant, wows SVT's "Skavlan Show," sings "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"; also appearing is "Downton Abbey's" Elizabeth McGovern, who also sings on the show; @taylorswift13, @DowntonAbbey

uris1 video: Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (SVT's Skavlan, Taped 2012-11-08, aired 2012-11-09). http://youtu.be/0BfqvpdFpCQ

Another guest on the very popular Skavlan show, which is usually taped in Stockholm on Thursday afternoon for airing in Sweden and Norway on Friday nights, but here was done in London, is actress Elizabeth McGovern who of course plays Lady Cora on blog fave Downton Abbey, and whose segment starts at 31:49. 

In it, McGovern, a member of a band called Sadie and The Hotheads, sings LA Days  http://www.svtplay.se/klipp/573109/elizabeth-mcgovern-la-days

Lady Cora rocks! Downton Abbey's Elizabeth McGovern on her REAL passion – gigging in pubs with her barnstorming band 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2155918/Downton-Abbeys-Elizabeth-McGovern-REAL-passion--gigging-pubs-barnstorming-band.html

McGovern's segment segues into Taylor's at 44:39, which begins with an interesting chat about her life and her own creative process for songwriting and how she uses songs as a way of making sense of the world, with the singing starting after her goodbyes at 54:30.

You can watch the entire show or go to the particular segment via the show's SVT Play website for 43 more days as of today, Saturday.
Be sure you click Program 10 at http://www.svtplay.se/skavlan 

For best viewing, as always, click the opposing arrows in the bottom right corner of the video box for Fullskärm, i.e full-screen. 

My three previous posts on Taylor Swift were

a.) November 25, 2011,  Taylor Swift shows why she's so beloved by her fans in profile/interview on CBS News' "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl; Amazing times ten!
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/taylor-swift-shows-why-shes-so-beloved.html

To quote myself, in my concluding pargraph:

FYI: As of five minutes ago, Taylor had 9,399,700 Twitter "Followers." According to the CIA World Factbook, their summer 2011 estimate for the population of Sweden was 9,088,728. So, put another way, imagine the entire population of Sweden, plus, the cities of Denver and St. Louis. THAT is how many people FOLLOW Taylor Swift's tweets. Now that is some perspective you can wrap your arms around!

b.) August 3, 2011, Country music sweetheart Taylor Swift rocked Washington, DC Tuesday, as the Wash. Post runs out of adjectives to describe the well-grounded superstar
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/country-music-sweetheart-taylor-swift.html

I wrote then: 

Years from now, Taylor's fans will still remember that concert in Washington like it just happened: the sounds, the scene, who they were with, what they wore... and they'll remember the lyrics to the songs as if there was never a time in their life that they didn't know them by heart. That's Taylor's genius.

c.) October 12, 2010, Taylor Swift's impression of "Minnesota Soccer Mom" on BBC 1's Switch with Annie and Nick; Dateline: On Tour With Taylor Swift; @taylorswift13
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/taylor-swifts-impression-of-minnesota.html


Uris1's YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/uris1

Fredrik Skavlan Talk Show homepage: http://skavlan.com/

All thing Taylor Swift in Sweden? At TSS: http://taylorswiftsweden.se/

http://www.youtube.com/user/TaylorSwiftVEVO

Fascinating interview with Lionel Richie on being a survivor: on Hollywood fame, divorces, parenting, daughter Nicole's problems, dealing with death of famous friends; duet with Jill Johnson - "Sail on" LIVE on SVT's Fredrik Skavlan Show. Excellent!; @jilljohnsons, #teamjill

 

jilljohnsonmusic YouTube Channel video: "Sail On" - Lionel Richie and Jill Johnson. LIVE on SVT's Skavlan Show. Aired March 9, 2012. Uploaded March 10, 2012. http://youtu.be/BatEw1Ci24U

This post was updated in December 2014.

As originally seen at 
http://svtplay.se/v/2737137/skavlan/lionel_richie_och_jill_johnson_-_sail_on?sb,k104116,1,f,-1
The SVT Play video lapsed in March of 2013 so I replaced that video with this version from Jill Johnson's YouTube Channel.

I LOVE THIS VERSION!

Through complete sheer serendipity, while looking thru my nightly check list of foreign Internet sources to see before going to sleep, while checking out some things on the always interesting Swedish Television SVT Play website, which I spend lots of time at, I found this utterly fascinating interview with Grammy Award-winning singer Lionel Richie on talk show host Fredrik Skavlan's very popular Friday night TV show, which airs on both SVT and NRK, the Norwegian TV/Radio service.

If I recall correctly, I read this episode from last Friday drew three million TV viewers combined.

I last mentioned Skavlan last year when I posted his interview with singer Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees on his amazing career, his recent health problems, his remarkably talented family and his efforts to help get an RAF WWII Memorial constructed in London, here:
FEBRUARY 12, 2011 
Robin Gibb and Carola sing "How Deep Is Your Love" on SVT's "Skavlan"; 20-minute interview also!
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/robin-gibb-and-carola-sing-how-deep-is.html

In this interview, conducted in English and originally with Swedish subtitles, Richie speaks candidly with Skavlan about being a survivor: on fame in Hollywood, his two divorces, learning to be a strong parent when his now-equally famous daughter, Nicole Richie, had her substance abuse problems, dealing with death of longtime famous friends like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Luther Vandross, and how their untimely deaths have changed him and dampened his view of the music industry.

And, of course, there the sweet duet of "Sail on" afterwards that he performs up at the top of this post with popular Swedish Country music singer Jill Johnson.

As regular readers of this blog know from how many times I've posted about her here in the past, I absolutely adore Jill, and could listen to her sing anything, which is why I subscribe to her terrific YouTube Channel, which is usually pretty current compared to most.
http://www.youtube.com/user/jilljohnsonmusic

Jill also sang in December's annual SVT St. Lucia telecast that was great -as usual!
I watched that telecast LIVE online via SVT Play, just like the previous year.  

Originally seen at http://svtplay.se/t/102974/skavlan until April 8th, 2012, as follows,
0:35:36  Intro to Lionel Richie... interview, leading to at 0:52:20 the introduction to song, which closes the show.
As usual, the SVT audio and video quality is amazing, so be sure to click fullskärm for the full screen.

With that episode of the show no longer available in full length, here is most of the Richie interview in two parts

Lionel Richie Interview Part 1 Skavlan

http://youtu.be/4w9IG0M38_I

Lionel Richie Interview Part 2 Skavlan

http://youtu.be/aZPaI2MWMG8

Here's a photo of the three of them that was placed on a Jill Facebook fan page
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=408307265851894&set=a.296809090335046.95935.159825464033410&type=1&ref=nf

Skavlan homepage at SVT: http://www.svt.se/skavlan/
Twitter: @SKAVLANTVShow

http://www.jilljohnson.se/
Twitter @jilljohnsons 

You Only Live Twice -Sometimes when you least expect it, from the most unlikely of sources, comes something to smile about: Freddie Wadling on SVT's 'Go'kväll' and "Skavlan'

SVT video: Freddie Wadling - You Only Live Twice (Live Go'Kväll 2011) December 14, 2011. http://youtu.be/LN_ISU_wMQY


You Only Live Twice -Sometimes when you least expect it, from the most unlikely of sources, comes something to smile about: Freddie Wadling with Fläskkvartetten on SVT's Go'kväll and Skavlan.

At 46:35 below, the title song from the 1967 James Bond/007  film "You Only Live Twice," by John Barry and Leslie Bricusse, originally sung by Nancy Sinatra, here with vocals by Freddie Wadling and music by Fläskkvartetten

SVT video: Skavlan, Episode 13 of 13, Christmas Special

Originally aired December 31, 2011

http://svtplay.se/t/102974/skavlan_julspecial

This video is available on the SVT website until Monday January 30, 2012.

Here is what in my opinion is the best and most-recent homage to this great song, from 1998:





Robbie Williams -  Millennium

http://youtu.be/BJ5uIkJDb6o

In a word, brilliant!!!

"You Only Live Twice" opening with vocals by Nancy Sinatra

http://youtu.be/PDitUVMMzE0

As always, watch for the ingenious camera dissolve from the blood on the mattress to the red that forms the red disk that represents the rising sun on the Japanese flag, Hinomaru.

Definitely among the three best opening-credit sequences of any Bond film, along with On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Spy Who Loved Me.

Freddie Wadling's new collection of James Bond film songs -and other secret agent songs- is available on his new EMI Music Sweden CD titled, "With a License to Kill"
http://www.jamesbond007.se/events.asp?id=2890

http://svt.se/gokvall

Fredrik Skavlan:

http://svt.se/2.102111/start

http://svt.se/2.102096/1.1883339/likheter

Robin Gibb and Carola sing "How Deep Is Your Love" on SVT's "Skavlan"; 20-minute interview also!

SVT: Carola och Robin Gibb framför "How deep is your love"
Robin Gibb and Carola Häggkvist sing "How Deep Is Your Love" on SVT's "Skalvan", February 2011.
http://svt.se/2.149571/1.2321117/inga-britt_ahlenius_talar_ut_om_fn_och_carola_aterforenas_med_robin_gibb

Frederick Skavlan's TV program on SVT, Skavlan, had popular Swedish singer Carola Häggkvist a.k.a Carola, with singer/composer Robin Gibb, who wrote the songs for Carola's 1986 very popular album, Runaway, which was recorded in Miami.
Here Robin and Carola sing one of the most-popular songs ever recorded, co-written by him, Maurice and Barry, from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, How Deep Is Your Love.
This video is available on the SVT Play website until February 12, 2012.

This entire episode of Skavlan from this past week is available at
http://svtplay.se/t/102974/skavlan
It can be seen on the SVT Play website until May 8th.
Robin is the very first guest and the entire interview is in English, with the intro into his segment coming 37 seconds into the program.

The one-and-only original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpqqjU7u5Yc