Don't you put me to the test, put some pants on, Dee! (Put some pants, put some pants, put some pants on, Dee!) Ba ba ba ba baa, ba ba ba ba baa I don't wanna see Put some pants on, Dee! And button up your vest, I don't wanna see Don't you put me to the test,...
Ring Ringwas originally calledKlocklåt (Clock Tune). The trio had been asked to submit a song for consideration for Sweden’s entry into the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest. English lyrics were added by Neil Sedaka and Phil Cody, and the song becameRing Ring. By Melodifestival(the Swedish Eu...
Abba - Take A Chance On Me (Official Video) This was one of ABBA's first singles in which their manager Stig Anderson did not contribute lyrics, helping to establish Benny and Bjorn as a songwriting partnership. Bjorn's hobby was running at the time, and while out one day he would sing...
2. ABBA –“Take a Chance on Me” The opening a cappella of this 1981 single indicated the true musicality of ABBA, with the band nailing the opening (and Bjorn and Benny’s voices even featured!) and indicated a fresh way to kick off yet another stomper of a single. Past the aca-...
An increasing number of disco songs featured lyrics that directly spoke to the gaycommunity, as in Valentino’s pioneering 1975 song “I Was Born This Way.” Indeed, disco became the domain of the gay anthem, including theVillage People’s “Y.M.C.A.” (1978), Gloria Gaynor’s “I Wi...
Stig also contributed lyrics to many ABBA hits during the first years of the group’s career. 1969 In the spring of 1969, Björn and Benny met the two women who were to become not only their fiancées but also the other half of ABBA. Agnetha Fältskog (born 1950) had been a ...
Stig Anderson arranged an English translation of the lyrics by Neil Sedaka and Phil Cody and they thought this would be a surefire winner. However, on 10 February 1973, the song came third in Melodifestivalen; thus it never reached the Eurovision Song Contest itself. Nevertheless, the group ...
What was rare for a stage musical was that the audience already knew almost every one of the show’s 22 numbers, written during the decade after ABBA won the Eurovision song contest in 1974 with Waterloo. Yet the lyrics repeatedly proved to be eye-openers during MAMMA MIA!, acting as dial...
2. ABBA –“Take a Chance on Me” The opening a cappella of this 1981 single indicated the true musicality of ABBA, with the band nailing the opening (and Bjorn and Benny’s voices even featured!) and indicated a fresh way to kick off yet another stomper of a single. Past the aca-...