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Jaakko Salo

real name Jaakko Elias Salo

Jaakko Salo is credited on 1,491 releases across 460 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,491

Credits

460

Albums

8

Decades active

1

In collections

Biography

Born February 22, 1930 in Viipuri (in Karelian Isthmus, back then a part of Finland, nowadays belongs to Russia). Jaakko Salo was a Finnish producer, composer, conductor and arranger. He worked for Scandia since 1950's and had a great influence on the development of Finnish schlager. He was also one of the founding members of UIT (Uusi Iloinen Teatteri), and was their revue writer, arranger and conductor from 1979 to 2002.
Jaakko Salo is also known for composing the music for the films of Spede Pasanen, especially the theme for Uuno Turhapuro -films.
He used a pseudonym Elias Metsä.
Died June 13, 2002 in Helsinki, Finland.

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Credited work

1,491 releases · 460 albums · active 1956–2025

  • Performance · 3,883
  • Production · 172
  • Other credits · 115

Studios: Scandia Studio · Takomo Studiot · Finnvox · Finnlevy Studios

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • Eino Grön
  • Olavi Virta
  • Danny (13)
  • Tapani Kansa
  • Jukka Raitanen
  • Laila Kinnunen
  • Carola (2)

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