Following my post this week on Swedish arranger-conductor Harry Arnold, I figure you might want a see him in action leading the Danish Radio Big Band on a TV show from around 1966. Joining him was vocalist Anni-Frid Lyngstad, who in 1972 would become a founding member of ABBA, and Carli Tornehave, who looked and sounded eerily like a Tony Bennett cover act (albeit pitchy). Here's the clip...
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