Honey, honey
| Honey, honey | |
|---|---|
| ABBA | |
| publication | April 1974 |
| length | 2:54 |
| Genre (s) | Pop / Europop |
| Author (s) | Björn Ulvaeus , Stig Anderson , Benny Andersson |
| album | Waterloo |
| Cover version | |
| 1974 | sweet Dreams |
Honey Honey is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA . Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus as well as their manager Stig Anderson were involved in the composition and text . The lead vocals are sung by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad together. In April 1974 the piece was released as a single with the B-side King Kong Song .
Emergence
The recordings for Honey Honey began on October 17, 1973. In January 1974, the song was recorded again in Swedish. Both recordings took place in the Metronome studio in Stockholm. In addition to the single release, where Honey Honey was the A-side, the piece was also released as the B-side of the Swedish version of Waterloo .
Quote
“Agnetha and I tried to sound a little sexy with the vocals. I'm not sure if we made it "
success
|
Chart positions Explanation of the data |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Singles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Honey Honey was released as a single at the group's request and sold well in some European countries. In Germany, Honey, Honey received a gold record for 500,000 copies sold . In Great Britain, however, where ABBA had just landed a number one hit with Waterloo , the label responsible for ABBA records, Epic Records , did not want to release this single, but instead wanted to release Ring Ring (# 32). Because the title was not published by ABBA in England, the group Sweet Dreams tried their luck with it. The cover version came in at number 10.
literature
- Carl Magnus Palm: Light and Shadow: ABBA - The True Story . Bosworth, Berlin, 2006, ISBN 3-936026-42-4 (German translation: Helmut Müller).
- Carl Magnus Palm: Abba - story and songs compact ("Abba, the complete guide to their music"). Bosworth Music, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86543-227-8 (German translation: Cecilia Senge).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carl Magnus Palm: Abba - Story and songs compact. 2007, p. 29.
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts US
- ^ Günter Ehnert: Hit balance sheet - German chart singles 1956-1980 . 1st edition. Verlag popular music-literature, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 443 .
- ↑ ABBA: Ring Ring in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ Sweet Dreams: Honey Honey in the Official UK Charts (English)