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De' ä' dans på Brännö brygga

song written and composed by Lasse Dahlquist; originally recorded by Lasse Dahlquist and released in 1941

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ4563542 ↗
Source-derived summary

De' ä' dans på Brännö brygga (It is Dance at Brännö Jetty) is a 1941 waltz written by Lasse Dahlquist. The song has been sung at Allsång på Skansen (Sing-along at Skansen). Brännö is an island in Gothenburg archipelago, and every summer there is a dance at Brännö brygga.

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“De' ä' dans på Brännö brygga” enters the record as song written and composed by Lasse Dahlquist; originally recorded by Lasse Dahlquist and released in 1941. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what dans, Brännö and brygga can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1941—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around dans, Brännö and brygga.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4563542. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1941.

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This entry incorporates text from “De' ä' dans på Brännö brygga” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.