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  Abba's discography
This collection of most of ABBA's A- sides was put together when it became clear that the group had no enthusiasm and not enough songs for an entire studio album of new material.
That it took nearly a year to record Voulez-Vous is an indicator of the creative and personal box in which the four members of ABBA found themselves at the end of the '70s.
ABBA's fourth album appeared after the group had arrived as major stars, and it shows the quartet at the absolute top of their game.
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  ABBA - Biography, Discography and Information @ CD Quest Music
Agnetha Faltskog (vocals, known when ABBA first emerged in UK as 'Anna,' although her name is actually pronounced "Ann-yetta") was born on April 5th, 1950, in Jonkoping in the south of Sweden.
ABBA were second only to Volvo as Sweden's biggest export earners for several years, and remain revered and legendary as one of the most accomplished pop/rock groups ever.
ABBA - The Movie, jointly produced by Stig Anderson and Reg Grundy, an Australian who was later responsible for the incredibly popular "Neighbors" TV series, was released also in 1978 to immense box office success (but little critical acclaim).
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 ABBA Super Trouper Pages - ABBA's Discography, Lyrics, Biography and access to the ABBA Bulletin Board
For the sake of convenience, Stig Anderson had come to refer to them as ABBA - an acronym of their Christian names - and when a "think of a name for Björn and Benny, Agnetha and Frida" competition held in a newspaper reached the same conclusion, the decision was sealed.
ABBA ran into trouble almost immediately when every single they released in the UK over the next 18 months barely scraped into the charts, although they had continued success in many other European countries.
ABBA themselves were soon back in the studio again, recording tracks for a new album.
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 The Biography Channel - ABBA Biography
ABBA was moving into the arena of disco, which had exploded in 1977, with the Bee Gees “Saturday Night Fever”.
ABBA’s use of videos, with bright costumes and early video image effects, to accompany their bigger hits, is often viewed as being some of the first examples of the genre.
Not only is ABBA an acronym, it is also a palindrome and in 1975, “SOS” became the first song with a palindromic title, recorded by a group with a palindromic name, to hit the pop charts.
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 ABBA
Abba meanwhile were not standing still, and followed up Arrival with the more complex 1977 release, ''Abba - The Album'', released to coincide with the feature film of their Australian tour, ''Abba - The Movie''.
ABBA was renowned for their colorful costumes (the epitome of 1970s fashion), and also for the videos which accompanied some of their biggest hits—these being among the earliest examples of the genre.
ABBA chose to make them because they preferred perfecting the songs rather than making personal appearances in all the countries where the song was likely to be a hit.
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 Abba Discography and Music at CD Universe
The campiest band of all time (and perhaps the only one to have a long-running popular musical based on their music and career,) Swedish sensation ABBA have won some kind of place in the hearts of millions.
ABBA's third album, released in 1975, finds the group at the end of the first phase...
Although they called it a day in the early 1980s, Abba lives on in the form of popular tribute bands and albums, a Broadway musical, and consistent record sales of their voluminous catalog.
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 ABBA discography - CD, download, mp3, band, discography, compilations
The most commercially successful pop group of the 1970s, the origins of the Swedish superstars ABBA dated back to 1966, when keyboardist and vocalist Benny Andersson, a onetime member of the popular beat outfit the Hep Stars, first teamed with guitarist and vocalist Bjorn Ulvaeus, the leader of the folk-rock unit the Hootenanny Singers.
The next year, rechristened ABBA (a suggestion from Stig Anderson and an acronym of the members' first names), the quartet submitted the single "Waterloo," and became the first Swedish act to win the Eurovision competition.
In 1975, however, ABBA issued "S.O.S.," a smash not only in America and Britain but also in non-English speaking countries such as Spain, Germany and the Benelux nations, where the group's success was fairly unprecedented.
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 Abba discography at Tunecaster
Abba was a disco era dance music pop music group.
Abba was so popular worldwide, that Abba became one of the biggest businesses in Sweden.
Abba had two number two songs, Fernando and Take A Chance On Me. Abba continued to put out dance music hit songs worldwide after the disco music era ended.
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Agnetha Fältskog, ABBA's youngest member, had a #1 record in Sweden when she was only 17 and was noted by the critics and songwriters as a talented composer, most of her songs being in the schlager style.
ABBA opened their much anticipated tour in Oslo, Norway, and mounted a lavishly produced spectacle of a show that included a few scenes from their self-penned mini-operetta.
The last scheduled ABBA concert on the US soil, in Washington, DC, was cancelled due to Fältskog's extreme emotional distress suffered during the flight from New York to Boston when the private plane she was on was subjected to extreme weather conditions (see Windsor Locks, Connecticut Tornado) and could not land for a long time.
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ABBA are the most successful popular music group ever to come out of Scandinavia, and rank amongst the top acts in the history of popular music.
The last scheduled ABBA concert on the US soil, in Washington, DC, was cancelled due to Fältskog's extreme emotional distress suffered during the flight from New York to Boston when the private plane she was on was subjected to extreme weather conditions (see Windsor Locks, Connecticut Tornado) and could not land for a long time.
ABBA's last public appearance as a group took place in January 1986 when they performed an acoustic version of "Tivedshambo", the very first song written by their manager Stig Anderson, for a Swedish TV show honouring Anderson on his 55th birthday.
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 The History of Rock Music. Abba: biography, discography, reviews, links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Abba were the reigning champions of pop during the 1970s.
Supertrouper (1981) returned them to their naive-pop glory, and, after Abba disbanded, their leaders and songwriters managed to top all of this with a superb exotic pastiche, Murray Head's One Night In Bangkok (1985).
If English is your first language and you could translate this text, please contact me.
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 Abba Story - Abba's discography, news, songs, lyrics, photos and more on the greatest Swedish band !
My favourite ABBA songs are 'One Of Us', 'Dancing Queen', 'Angeleyes' and 'Waterloo.' My favourite of ABBA's least well-known songs are 'Should I Laugh Or Cry', 'Me And I' and 'Bang-A-Boomerang.' And my favourite ABBA album is 'The Visitors.' I still like the rest of ABBA's songs as well, though.
I have loved Abba since I was ten (I`m forty now).
ABBA was a Swedish pop music group, the most successful to date from that country.
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 ABBA - The Complete Guide To Their Music
A track by track guide to ABBA's entire recorded output was published in 2005, as part of a long-running series of discographies on a diverse range of artists.
ABBA were among the new artists Omnibus Press wanted to add to the series.
ABBA - The Complete Guide To Their Music aligns itself with the format used for the earlier titles in the series, the intention being to describe every track ever recorded and released by ABBA for the purpose of functioning as a consumer guide.
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 The Music Of ABBA
The trademark ABBA sound consists of two main ingredients: keyboard-based wall-of-sound arrangements, and the soprano and mezzosoprano voices of Agnetha and Frida respectively.
This discography refers to the single and album releases as conceived by ABBA and their Swedish record company Polar during the time of the group's existence between 1972 and 1982 (excluding promotional releases).
All records are credited to ABBA unless otherwise stated.
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 ABBA - Links - Picture galleries
ABBA FAN CLUB in Moscow Information about the fan club, picture gallery, ABBA news, MIDI files, interview with Stig Anderson (1995).
ABBA в Україні / ABBA in Ukraine Ted, Ukraine.
Abba Story The very best of Abba including all news, lyrics, songs, albums, photos, links and resources.
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 Abba lyrics, Abba guitar tabs, Abba bass tabs, Abba pictures, Abba fonts, discography, biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Abba browse lyrics and guitar tablature, read biography of Abba and find out how was written.
Band fonts section Abba is another category that deserves some attention, especially for those who are big fans of the band Abba and like to collect or create band logos and such.
Members will be able to submit and rate Abba tablature and lyrics, add pictures and other information about Abba such as reviews, comments, interesting facts in the history of the band Abba.
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 Latest ABBA News from ABBAMAIL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The definitive ABBA discography is being published by Premium Publishing in February or March 2001.
ABBA - The Book is expected at the Australian distributors in early October and it will be posted out to those who have ordered it directly.
One time Agnetha duet partner and ABBA backing vocalist Tomas Ledin will be releasing a new single "Hopp om en ljusare värld" (Hope for a brighter world) on 9 October with an album to follow on 28 October.
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 ABBA: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Eurovision Song Contest winner "Waterloo" had been a major international hit and "Honey, Honey" a more modest one, but ABBA was still an exotic novelty to most of those outside Scandinavia until the release of ABBA in the spring of 1975.
ABBA 's self-titled third album was the one that really broke the group on a worldwide basis.
ABBA was a surprisingly effective synthesis of pop and rock styles, surprising because the non-English-speaking world had not produced such effective Anglo-American-style contemporary music before, at least for more than a song or two.
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 Amazon.ca: Gold: Greatest Hits (Ltd.Ed): Music: Abba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Waterloo was the song that made abba famous when abba won a competition with it and released a record "Waterloo" using the song as the theme song.
ABBA's trademark throughout the years has always been strong vocals and melodic insturmentals, and each of these qualities is readily evident on this CD.
Abba don't use two words where one will do and something new comes out of the music every time you listen to it.
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 Record Collector - Knowing Me, Knowing URL
Abba World is a general all-round site, with excellent links, where sites are quality graded, which was pretty helpful when it came to researching this article.
In addition there's a Who's Who of the Abba world, and some interesting 'musings' including a strong attack on Polygram (referred to here as Polygrab) for their 1997 reissues and a page of 'Fantasy Remasters', presumably what the author would have done, had he been in Polygram's well-heeled shoes.
There's also a very good biography and a news section, which must have been difficult to compile at times, although as RC went to press, Agnetha is working on her first album for 15 years (see next month's RC).
www.abbaannual.com /RecordCollector.htm   (1311 words)

  
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 Oleo - Abba Discography
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 ABBA Discography..
ABBA's first mission and best destiny was to be among the best pop groups of their time, and at this they succeeded.
ABBA was reminiscent perhaps of the Fifth Dimension or The Mamas and The Papas but neither of these acts focused solely on the female duo in the way ABBA did on many of their singles.
ABBA albums were always chock full of possible hit singles, but sometimes the group did not want to risk releasing singles that might not hit the top five,.
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 ABBA - The Site
This discography refers to the single and album releases as conceived and planned by ABBA and their Swedish record company Polar Music during the time of the group’s existence between 1972 and 1982.
However, for those that are interested, there are plenty of web sites which details the ABBA discographies specific to other territories.
All records in this discography are credited to ABBA unless otherwise stated.
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 Monica Zetterlund — En diskografi
Although I am mostly known for my work charting the history of ABBA, this discography of Swedish singer and actress Monica Zetterlund was the book that actually got my writing career started in the first place.
Research for the discography began in the summer of 1990.
One year after its publication, the discography was put to good use.
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 abba discography - Information from Reference.com
There are no dictionary entries for abba discography, but abba, discography are spelled correctly.
Abba Story - Abba's discography, news, songs, lyrics, photos and...
ABBA, the ABBA logo and related images are registered trademarks of Polar...
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 swedishcharts.com - Discography ABBA
Im darauffolgenden Jahr, beim Eurovisionswettbewerb in Brighton, England, machten ABBA dann den großen Fischzug: Vor einem potentiellen TV-Publikum von 500 Millionen Zuschauern in 32 Ländern gewannen sie mit Waterloo den ersten Preis.
ABBA borgten vom US-Pop der sechziger Jahre (Connie Francis, Motown, Phil Spector, Beach Boys, The Mamas And The Papas) und schlugen eine Brücke zum Synthesizer-Pop der Gegenwart.
In vier Jahren verkauften ABBA, inzwischen längst Teilhaber bei Andersons Polar, 53 Millionen Platten und avancierten zur erfolgreichsten Popgruppe seit den Beatles.
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