Artist's albums
Musiikin tähtihetkiä 6 - Tapio Rautavaara
2001 · album
Suomiviihteen legendat
1997 · album
Suuret suomalaiset / 80 klassikkoa
2016 · album
Isoisän Olkihattu
2015 · album
Kulkuri Ja Joutsen
2015 · album
Tuo Aika Toukokuun
2015 · album
Tähtisarja - 30 Suosikkia
2013 · album
Kulkurin taival - 48 mestariteosta 1947 - 1979
2008 · album
Kulkurin taival - Kaikki levytykset 1946 - 1951
2008 · album
Kulkurin taival - Kaikki levytykset 1946 - 1979
2008 · album
Kulkurin taival - Kaikki levytykset 1951 - 1953
2008 · album
Kulkurin taival - Kaikki levytykset 1954 - 1955
2008 · album
Kulkurin taival - Kaikki levytykset 1955 - 1957
2008 · album
Kulkurin taival - Kaikki levytykset 1957 - 1959
2008 · album
Kulkurin taival - Kaikki levytykset 1960 - 1962
2008 · album
Kulkurin taival - Kaikki levytykset 1963 - 1964
2008 · album
Kulkurin taival - Kaikki levytykset 1964 - 1965
2008 · album
Kulkurin taival - Kaikki levytykset 1965 - 1966
2008 · album
Kulkurin taival - Kaikki levytykset 1967 - 1968
2008 · album
Kulkurin taival - Kaikki levytykset 1968 - 1969
2008 · album
Kulkurin taival - Kaikki levytykset 1970 - 1973
2008 · album
Kulkurin taival - Kaikki levytykset 1973 - 1979
2008 · album
Nostalgia
2007 · album
(MM) En päivääkään vaihtaisi pois
2004 · album
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Biography
Tapio Rautavaara is a Finnish singing legend with over 300 songs to his name whose recording career went all the way from 1946 until 1979. Born March 8, 1915, in Nokia, Finland, he initially rose to fame as a gold medalist javelin thrower at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. The following year he sang a couple hit singles, "Reissumies ja Kissa" and "Päivänsäde ja Menninkäinen." He had begun his singing career a few years earlier in 1946 but hadn't scored a hit single until 1949, thanks in part to his newfound celebrity as an Olympic gold medalist. He was most successful during the early '50s, when he released some of his greatest hits, including "Kulkuri ja Joutsen," "Isoisän Olkihattu," "Ontuva Eriksson," "Sininen Uni," and "Juokse Sinä Humma." Meanwhile, he was also a star on the silver screen, having made his film debut as an actor in 1945 with Vain Sinulle. As with his singing, he was most successful as an actor during the 1950s, when he starred in a long list of films. While Rautavaara fell out of fashion during the cultural revolution of the 1960s, he remained active throughout that decade as well as the next. In fact, he was active right up until his death on September 25, 1979, in Helsinki; he suffered a brain hemorrhage after a fall. The tragic death of Rautavaara enhanced his legacy as a Finnish icon, and in later years his back catalog was reissued time and time again in a series of greatest-hits collections and exhaustive collectors' box sets. The most notable of these latter-day compilations are En Päivääkään Vaihtaisi Pois - Sata Levytystä Vuosilta 1946--1979 (1995), a five-CD box set repackaged for re-release in 2004, and Kulkurin Taival (2008), a mammoth 14-CD box set. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi