Dance Weekend - 70ies / 80ies - Abba
Steemians - we start into Dance Weekend today with another Special. This time it is not about a certain country, city or music style (well Dance is given of course) but about a certain time area. This weekend I will post about epic Oldies in Dance, everyday I will present a band, singer, act that played a role in my personal music history. So we start with a band from Sweden!
Abba - The band of my first music invest!
When I was younger I lived in times where you could buy vinyl records and music cassettes. This was before even the CD - Compact Disc - has been invented, not talking about digital music formats at all. The very first music product I bought in my life was a music cassette from the marvellous Abba back in 1980 - the album was called Super Trouper and contains 10 songs that all are great. Some Dance, some ballads, some great produced pop songs. The entry song above is from a different album but probably one of these Dance Songs that everyone knows.
Super Trouper was the seventh studio album by ABBA
It was first released in 1980. It features the No.1 singles "The Winner Takes It All" and "Super Trouper". The title song and a great Dance Tune with "Take A Chance on Me" below.
ABBA (stylized ᗅᗺᗷᗅ) in History
The group was formed 1972 in Stockholm and the original band members have been Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. Agnatha was my first celeb love, nowadays you call that maybe internet love lol. ABBA is an acronym of the first letters of the band members' first names and is sometimes stylized as the registered trademark ᗅᗺᗷᗅ. The band became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1975 to 1982. They also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 at the Dome in Brighton, UK, giving Sweden its first triumph in the history of the contest and being the most successful group ever to take part in the competition. Ulvaeus and Andersson are also known for writing the Broadway musical "Chess" in 1980.
ABBA has sold over 500 million albums and singles worldwide (estimated), which makes them one of the best-selling music artists of all time, and the second best-selling music group of all time. ABBA was the first group to come from a non-English-speaking country that enjoyed consistent success in the charts of English-speaking countries, including the UK, Ireland, the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The group also enjoyed significant success in Latin American markets, and recorded a collection of their hit songs in Spanish. Some of their songs (or parts) got used / sampled by other knows artists as well. Here two more of my favourites even younger ones might recognise from other songs.
Final Song is the traditional - Now go Home Song
I remember it so well - if the club wants to close this song is usually the final track played by any DJ in usuals clubs (not hardcore Techno ones) to throw out the audience - lol - "Thank You For the Music".