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Ring Ring (ABBA song)

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295: 454:" treatment to the songs that he produced. While Spector used several musicians playing the same instruments in the same recording studio at the same time, such a technique would be far too expensive for the recording of "Ring Ring". Tretow's solution was to simply record the song's backing track twice in order to achieve an orchestral sound. Changing the speed of the tape between the overdubs, making the instruments marginally out of tune, increased the effect. This was unlike anything that had been done before in Swedish music. 2466: 483:
Sweden, Norway and Austria, and reaching the Top 10 in the charts of the Netherlands, South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). On the official South African year-end chart for 1974, "Ring Ring" placed 13th and its successor "Waterloo" finished 14th. It topped the charts in Belgium, becoming the first of 16 No. 1 hits for ABBA there. "Ring Ring" was the group's first release in the
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Though "Ring Ring" did not get the opportunity to represent Sweden in the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest, the subtitled Swedish version ("Bara Du Slog En Signal") performed very well on the Swedish charts, giving ABBA their first No. 1 hit. The English version fared almost as well, peaking at No. 2 in
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and backed by his orchestra, losing the "wall of sound" production sound. The song finished third. Nevertheless, when the studio recording of the song was released it fared much better in the Swedish charts, both in its Swedish and English language incarnations, hitting No. 1 and No. 2 respectively.
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The quartet then decided that performing as a group was a serious and realistic idea. They toured Sweden, and despite the failure of "Ring Ring" to represent the country at the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest, they began to prepare themselves for
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and another guitarist. Curiously, the video did not use the original version of the song, but the remix version from 1974, although this was changed when the video was remastered in 4K to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the
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album. A German-language version of the song was also recorded but failed to chart in West Germany. A Spanish version was also recorded (with lyrics by Doris Band), but was not released until the 1993 CD compilation
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and his collaborator Phil Cody) showed notable changes in the original lyrics but with a similar meaning, including a new chorus: "Ring, ring, why don't you give me a call?". The Swedish version reached No. 1 in the
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The single gave the group their big break in several European countries (although the rest of Europe, North America and Australia would be introduced to ABBA the following year). The song was written in
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in October 1973, but failed to chart, selling only 5,000 copies. in 1973 the single won a gold record in Sweden for selling 100,000 copies. In Scandinavia the single has sold 200,000 copies.
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The master tapes of the 1974 remix were presumed missing, or at least unobtainable, for some years. For this reason, the remix did not appear on the 1994 four-CD box-set
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was released, which finally included the 1974 single remix sourced from the master tape. It was later revealed on Carl Magnus Palm's website that
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at the time but, with the help of his then-current lyricist Phil Cody (who did not usually write in that style), wrote a set of English lyrics.
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When ABBA performed "Ring Ring" in the Swedish Eurovision selection competition on 10 February 1973, it was a simpler version arranged by
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After this, the song was retitled "Ring Ring". To make it more accessible to a universal audience, Anderson asked American songwriter
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Scott, Robert (2002) 'ABBA: Thank You for the Music – The Stories Behind Every Song', Carlton Books Limited: Great Britain, p. 26
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as having a "superfluous saxophone overdub and leaden sound". This version reached No. 32 in the UK in July 1974, with "
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Faltskog, Agnetha & Ahman, Brita (1997) 'As I Am: ABBA Before & Beyond', Virgin Publishing, p.46
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said that the lyrics co-penned by Sedaka " with a cold relationship and a silent telephone."
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to pen the lyrics for an English version. Sedaka was estranged from his lyricist
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was recorded in June 1974 at SVT Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. Directed by
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UK, Spain, Brazil, Italy, France, West Germany, Peru, Austria, Netherlands
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in selected countries, and internationally on the 1999 edition of
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Andersson, Ulvaeus and Anderson were invited to enter a song into
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in the UK. This had presumably occurred between 1999 and 2001.
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1973 single by Bjorn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida (ABBA)
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album in 2023. This video clip was included on the DVDs
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Index


Single
ABBA
Ring Ring
B-side
Studio
Metronome
Genre
Pop rock
glam rock
funk rock
Europop
schlager
Label
Polar
Epic
Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus
Stig Anderson
Neil Sedaka
Producer(s)
ABBA
He Is Your Brother
Another Town, Another Train
ABBA - Ring, Ring (Official Music Video)
YouTube
1974 UK remix single label of the English version
English

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