Monsieur, Monsieur became My Love, My Life. Others were either given new lyrics, or new titles, and repackaged. And Get On the Carousel, never released on an album, can be heard in ABBA: The Movie. I Am the City, recorded in 1982 for an unproduced album, finally made it out on the 1993 compilation album More ABBA Gold, and Put On Your White Sombrero, intended for the 1980 album Super Trouper, was released with the 1994 boxed set Thank You for the Music. Over the years some of those lost songs have surfaced.

Some of their best work: Rock Me, Does Your Mother Know and Man in the Middle.) (Though it’s generally believed the men did not sing lead on ABBA songs, they often did. And unlike the first two new singles, which had new studio recordings from singers Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida) and Agnetha Fältskog, the vocals for Just a Notion were recorded in September, 1978.Īnother, Bumble Bee, is almost certainly derived from an unreleased ABBA song, Free as a Bumble Bee, written and recorded as a demo in 1978 with vocals by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. Just a Notion, for example, was originally written and produced for the group’s 1979 album Voulez-Vous. Revealingly, however, not all the music on the album is brand new. As first-albums-in-40-years go it’s sometimes hard to predict, but there is every indication it will be a hit: it has clocked up close to 120,000 pre-orders in the UK alone. The next piece in that jigsaw is the album itself: the three songs already released, plus seven more: When You Danced with Me, Little Things, I Can Be That Woman, Keep an Eye on Dan, Bumble Bee, No Doubt About It and Ode to Freedom.

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