There is a deep connection between Riedel's music and almost every Swede that grew up from the late 1960s almost up to this day. Renowned jazz pianist Jan Johansson (with whom Georg Riedel recorded the best selling Swedish jazz album of all time, "Jazz På Svenska", 'Jazz in Swedish', based on traditional Swedish folk songs) first got the assignment to write the music for the first Pippi Longstocking movies. But Johansson was killed in a car accident on his way to a gig in 1968, and Riedel took over the assignment.
That was the start of a collaboration between him and Sweden's most productive (and famous) writer of child litterature, Astrid Lindgren, which lasted for the rest of her life. The many songs he wrote for countless movies, TV series and theatre productions are imprinted in the minds of almost every Swede between age 20 and 65, and has had an impact far beyond his excellent jazz playing and composing.
He also scored several movies and TV series which got quite an exposure; Sweden had only two public TV channels well into the 80s and no commercial TV or radio was allowed.
He has been a presence on the music scene ever since making a name as a jazz basist in the mid-1950s up to this day and he is totally irreplaceable.