[1] He took inspiration from US and UK 'crazy' style humor and created his own personal Swedish version, unusual combinations of lyrics and music, word play, pastiche and general unexpectedness.

He wrote approximately 1700 songs, skits and monologues, and he is regarded as a legend and an institution in Swedish entertainment.

At a young age, Ramel found a loving audience for his talents in the family nurses, maids and cooks, and also his parents.

His family often went on extensive holidays, and on such an occasion, on a beach in Belgium, when Povel was two years old he stepped on a nail.

To avoid getting into trouble, Ramel told his teachers that he had lost his attendance book, thereby getting a new one, while showing his parents the old one, free from absence remarks.

His aunt wrote the lyrics to one of his songs, "En vår utan dig" ("A Spring Without You"), which he recorded.

But, with no rules to be found against Boogie Woogie Waltzes, he dutifully wrote Johanssons boogie-woogie-vals, the song that was later to become his first hit.

Then a friend at the record company sent a copy with the label pulled off to Radiotjänst (The Swedish Broadcasting Corporation), and the sales jumped.

With several series of innovative radio shows featuring the crazy style of humor, he became a household name in Sweden.

[1] His first vaudeville show was "Akta Huvet" ("Mind Your Head") and Ramel made his entrance hanging from a cable over the auditorium.

The award itself consists of a paper cone filled with sweets, which alludes to one of Ramel's songs, a diploma, and a sum of money which is "sufficient to make the recipient financially independent, at least for the rest of the day".

[4] The prize ceremony is held at the beginning of June each year, and it was led by Povel Ramel until 2007, when he was unable to attend due to his failing health; he died on the following day from a heart disease.

The awardee is led onto the scene of the venue covered by a sheet striped in red and white (an allusion to a polkagris, a form of peppermint rock), which is removed as the identity of the recipient is revealed through a poem written for the occasion.

This includes some random poems and writings of Ramel, as "How to Convince an American Businessman" Vanliga palsternackan is a play on the famous Swedish almanac, Vanliga Almanackan (The ordinary almanac) It includes some strange ideas such as a list of kings who died from overeating (with space to keep the list up-to-date) This book was co-written with Hans Alfredson This begins with Ramel's youth and ends when he married his wife in 1949.

He describes many things of his life, such as when he, as a child, cut big holes in his clothes, to find out what it was like to be poor!