Dansa i neon is a Swedish language

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

, sung by Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 singer Lena Philipsson

Lena Philipsson

Maria Magdalena "Lena" Philipsson is a Swedish singer and media personality.-Career:...

 and finishing 5th at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1987

Melodifestivalen 1987

Melodifestivalen 1987 was the selection for the 27th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 26th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 1502 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The final was broadcast on TV2 and was not broadcast on radio...

. Dansa i neon was written by Tim Norell, Peo Thyrén and Ola Håkansson

Ola Håkansson

Ola Håkansson is a Swedish singer, composer and producer.Ola Håkansson was born in Stockholm. He was the singer of the band Ola and the Janglers and later Secret Service. In 1986 he recorded the duet "The Way You Are" with Agnetha Fältskog.He was part of the songwriting trio Norell Oson Bard...

, and was first thought to have been performed by Lili & Susie

Lili & Susie

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. Ola Håkansson proposed that, but Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television

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 said not.

Lena Philipsson released it as a single

Single (music)

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 in 1987, which reached a 9th place as best on the Swedish singles chart. The song was also at Svensktoppen

Svensktoppen

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 for 13 weeks during the period 22 March to 14 June 1987, with a second place during the debut week as best result there.

In 2011 Lena released a new version of the song in English entitled "Dance in the Neon Light

Dance in the Neon Light

"Dance in the Neon Light" in an English version of the Swedish language song "Dansa i Neon" by Swedish pop singer Lena Philipsson. She sang the song and finished 5th at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1987. During Melodifestivalen 2011 she performed the new version of her song with the Swedish metal...

" featuring the Swedish metal band Dead by April

Dead by April

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.

Cover versions

• Swedish heavy metal group Black Ingvars
  Black Ingvars
  Black Ingvars is a Swedish humorist heavy metal group. Black Ingvars is famous for cover versions of songs from other musical styles, like pop, children's song, "dansband" music, Christmas songs and gospel...
  
   covered "Dansa i neon" on their 1998 album Schlager Metal
  Schlager Metal
  Schlager Metal is a 1998 album by Swedish heavy metal band Black Ingvars. On the album, they cover Melodifestivalen songs in heavy metal version...
  
  .
• The dansband Barbados
  Barbados (band)
  Barbados is a Swedish dansband, formed in 1992, who have had several Swedish chart successes. The band, with lead singer Magnus Carlsson, became widely known after their second place in Melodifestivalen 2000. The band has replaced lead singer three times. First Magnus Carlsson left the group in...
  
   covered "Dansa i neon" on the 2000 album "Kom hem" .
• Thorsten Flinck
  Thorsten Flinck
  Thorsten Flinck, born April 17, 1961 in Solna, is a Swedish actor, director, and musician. He is known for mostly playing psychopaths and villains, and also for his outrageous personality both on stage and in real life...
  
   and Ola Salo
  Ola Salo
  Ola Salo, born Rolf Ola Anders Svensson on 19 February 1977 in Avesta, Sweden, is the Swedish rock vocalist of the Swedish glam rock band The Ark. Salo lived in Rottne, Växjö Municipality, in Sweden when he was a child. It was while living in Rottne, in 1991, that he and his friends Jepson and...
  
   recorded the song in a duet on the 2004 Thorsten Flinck album Vildvuxna rosor.

External links

• "Dansa i neon" at the Swedish singles chart.