Need to ask the ABBA experts this one.
Madonna has a track on her new album Confessions II called ‘Bizarre’ that sounds VERY much like an ABBA track. There is a sample within that I am sure is from an ABBA track. What is it?
Is it ‘Under Attack’? 🤯🤯🤯
I've been listening a lot in the car and while working in the yard. They have to program material (no commercials, only station identification or whatever it's called, 5 seconds, every 2 songs or so) 24/7 and it's a limited amount of songs. So I'm fine with the solo works being included. Hep Stars material is ok (even their version of Silent Night, in Swedish; the oddest part was hearing it in July). I even appreciate Benny Anderssons orkester. Hootenanny Singers songs are good for a change of pace. I can take a Gemini cover of a B/B song. I'll even put up with an Agnetha duet with Peter Cetera.
What I can't stand is the Mamma Mia soundtrack songs. I've not seen the movies and I won't. Amanda Seyfried has an ok voice but I don't need to hear her interpretations. And Meryl Streep I don't need to hear at all. The music is a poor imitation of the ABBA recordings, I find every song annoying. I have to turn to something else when the soundtrack music comes on.
The people who came to know ABBA through the movies and then through GOLD probably don't want to hear Agnetha's and Frida's solo work (particularly the older stuff in Swedish). If you want to hear Pierce Brosnan do his thing then fire up Spotify or something.
(not my wedding) My friend plays piano in a couple different churches. And he told me the other day he got a request to play some part of our last summer in a wedding. I don't know when at the wedding, again i don't know thease people. Or what part of the song. Maybe they met in Paris since the song is related to there, or one of them simply like it?
Just currious about others opinions if you see this as a wedding apropriate song? What reason do you think they used it? And what ABBA song would you want to have in your wedding if you had to have one from them?
For context third person is Meryl Streep, THR ULTIMATE TRIOOOOO AAAA.
ABBA was awarded the "Silver Smurf Hammer" (Silberner Hammerschlumpf) for Best Pop Group by the German teen magazine Pop-Rocky in 1981 and 1982, the votes were collected in 1980 and 1981, then the awards were announced in the first edition of the next year, 1981 and 1982 . Left picture when the 1980 "Silver Smurf Hammer" was handed to ABBA in August of 1981, Right picture when the 1981 ""Silver Smurf Hammer" was handed to ABBA in November of 1982.
I just found out Harpo who sang the song "Movie Star" is Swedish, after finding a Swedish version of the song.
I then find out that Frida from ABBA sang the backup vocals in the chorus.
No wonder I got ABBA vibes from this song. Swedish music in the 70s was cooking.
So, I have never seen anyone leave a comment about these parts of the song, but I find them one of my favorites.
At 0:28, right after the line "Take a chance on me", something like a scream can be heard in the background. It's like it's saying "heeee". Then the same scream repeats multiple times through the whole song.
A very similar sound is produced at 3:11, just at the same time as the words "still free" are being sung. This time the sound is like "hee hooo".
Any comments on that, and has anyone heard those parts before?
The Aftonbladet article dated October 8, 1979, covering ABBA's final North American tour concert at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens, features a photograph of Agnetha Fältskog with the following caption:
“A radiantly happy Agnetha Fältskog met the audience in Toronto Maple Leaf Garden wearing Börje Salming's jersey number 21. No one could tell that she had been sick with a fever just a couple of days ago. Photo: PETER KNOPP”
Also in the article text the following statement:
"Agnetha Fältskog reminded everyone of other Swedish world-class talent in Canada when she stepped onto the stage wearing professional star Börje Salming's jersey number 21."
Photographic and archival evidence contradicts the caption text and article text, confirming that Anni-Frid (Frida) Lyngstad was the member wearing Börje Salming's jersey number 21, while Fältskog wore number 1.
Visual Evidence Breakdown:
Conclusion:
The contemporary report by Aftonbladet contains a factual error. The newspaper attributed the #21 jersey—worn as a tribute to the prominent Swedish defensemen playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs—exclusively to Fältskog. The visual record establishes that Fältskog wore number 1 throughout the encore, while Lyngstad wore number 21 for both the encore and her solo performance earlier in the setlist.
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Full article:
Aftonbladet, dated Monday, October 8, 1979.
THANK YOU AND GOODBYE, AMERICA
– Now we must reconquer Europe
TORONTO. ABBA is on their way home after their tour in Canada and the USA. The finale last night took place in Toronto Maple Leaf Garden, where they did their last encore in hockey jerseys.
Agnetha Fältskog reminded everyone of other Swedish world-class talent in Canada when she stepped onto the stage wearing professional star Börje Salming's jersey number 21.
There was no champagne celebration afterward — ABBA has already begun the countdown for their next big task: to conquer Europe again.
— It has been a fine tour, bigger and better than our highest expectations, says Stikkan [Stig] Anderson. The immediate future is about a new LP, massive sales in the USA, and then the hard-working push for the European tour, as well as letting Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad work on targeting Spanish-speaking countries.
GREATER THAN THE MUSIC
When Stikkan Anderson talks about the group, one easily gets the impression that ABBA is bigger than the music itself and spans across the entire global entertainment world. But he explains:
— The experts in the industry here in the USA and Canada have said that it has been a clear step backward for concerts and tours. It has become increasingly difficult to fill the arenas. It is a fact that we, on the other hand, packed them. We could have chosen larger venues in, for example, New York and Chicago.
— But that doesn't matter; one can only be grateful for how the results of the tour turned out. A fantastic success. Our goal was to see where we stood on the US market.
— Our new album "ABBA's Greatest Hits Volume II" is coming out in mid-November, and I dare to predict that we will note a sales surge in the USA until Christmas, says Stikkan Anderson. Through the tour, "ABBA's Greatest Hits Volume I" has climbed back up the American charts again. Before we came here, it was "dead."
ABBA has not only received praise. Critics have complained about their clinical stage presence, the glossy purity, but the lack of nerve and soul. Will ABBA instead, on the other hand, follow a trend from the reviving rock wave?
OUR OWN PROFILE
— Definitely not, says Stikkan. We have our own profile. It irritates many critics. You can't fit us into a specific box, and that's why people get confused in the USA, resulting in a few hits from the critics. But we have to accept that. We are keeping our style. We are a rock or disco band, we are entertainment — ABBA, nothing else.
South America is an expanding major market for the Swedish group, where their UN single "Chiquitita" leads a series of top charts.
— We are not a touring band. Eventually, we will have to discuss what we are going to do and evaluate our test of the USA and Canada. In January and February, we will write new music and make recordings. Plans are also underway to scout for things for Agnetha and Frida.
— The future is in principle about keeping going for as long as it's fun, says Stikkan Anderson.
Rolf Svensson
[Caption under the image]:
A radiantly happy Agnetha Fältskog met the audience in Toronto Maple Leaf Garden wearing Börje Salming's jersey number 21. No one could tell that she had been sick with a fever just a couple of days ago.
Photo: PETER KNOPP
Captured during the final encore of the Canadian leg of their North American tour, the group surprised the local crowd by wearing custom Toronto Maple Leafs hockey jerseys. Moving to the front of the stage with handheld vocal microphones, Björn Ulvaeus (playing acoustic guitar), Benny Andersson , Agnetha Fältskog, and Frida Lyngstad delivered a rare front-line performance of "Dancing Queen" and "Waterloo."
-- I tried to identify the players corresponding to the numbers on the shoulder/sleeve
In October 1979, the active players on the Toronto Maple Leafs roster wearing those specific numbers were:
Went my whole life thinking it was ‘Tesco’; only found out it was Glasgow.