Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

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Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
(A Man After Midnight)
ABBA
publication October 12, 1979
length 4:53
Genre (s) Pop / dance pop
text Bjorn Ulvaeus
music Benny Andersson
Label Polar Music
album Greatest Hits Vol. 2

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) is a song by ABBA from 1979. It was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus , the lead vocals were taken over by Agnetha Fältskog . In October 1979, the title was published on the group's second greatest hits album and was released as a single in parallel. The B-side was the song The King Has Lost His Crown from the album Voulez-Vous , which was released in April of the same year.

The play is about a woman who always has to spend her evenings alone and who dearly wants a man. In 1992 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! put on the track list of the album ABBA Gold , but in the first edition in a remastered and slightly abridged version. The song's catchy hookline , played with keyboard and synthesizer , was picked up in 2005 by the US singer Madonna and used for her hit Hung Up , which reached number 1 in the charts in 41 countries and sold over nine million times.

Emergence

Andersson and Ulvaeus were convinced that only a track with a danceable rhythm could sell well. So they began to work on a song with the working title Been and Gone and Done It in August 1979 . The recordings also took up parts of September, with the music video being filmed on September 5th parallel to the recording. For this, the song was shortened to 3:15 minutes. The photo shoot for the cover of this single and for the group's new greatest hits album also took place in early September.

In the spring of 1980 the song was recorded for the compilation Gracias por la música under the title ¡Dame! Lady! Lady! recorded in Spanish and released as a single in Spain in the same year, which however did not make it into the charts. In Argentina, this version served as the B-side for the single Gracias por la música , which reached number 4.

success

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
  DE 3 October 29, 1979 (26 weeks)
  AT 2 December 15, 1979 (12 weeks)
  CH 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 04/11/1979 (12 weeks)
  UK 3 10/20/1979 (11 weeks)
  SE 16 11/14/1979 (3 weeks)

The single peaked at number 1 in six countries including Belgium , Ireland and Finland . ABBA landed a big hit with the song in France, where the single sold over 600,000 times. In the UK, the single received the Silver Record for 250,000 records sold. In seven other countries, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! in the top ten , for example in Australia, where it reached number 8. It made it to the top 20 of the charts in New Zealand, South Africa and Japan, while it was not released in the United States.

literature

  • Carl Magnus Palm: Light and Shadow. ABBA - The real story. Bosworth Musikverlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86543-100-4 (German translation: Helmut Müller).
  • Carl Magnus Palm: Abba. Story and songs compact. Bosworth Music, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86543-227-8 (compact story and songs) (German translation: Cecilia Senge).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ABBA Gold - The Success Story, pp. 86/87
  2. ABBA Omnibus Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (Remaster Version)
  3. ABBA Omnibus Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (Video Edit)
  4. ABBA Chart List ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Argentina @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / home.zipworld.com.au
  5. Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts SE
  6. www.infodisc.fr Les Singles en Or , accessed on September 7, 2014
  7. bpi.co.uk