I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
| I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do | |
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| ABBA | |
| publication | April 4th 1975 |
| length | 3:18 |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| Author (s) | Benny Andersson , Stig Anderson , Björn Ulvaeus |
| album | ABBA |
I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do is a song by ABBA from 1975. It was written by Björn Ulvaeus , Benny Andersson and Stig Anderson , Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad took care of the lead vocals together. In April 1975 the piece was released simultaneously on the album ABBA and with the B-side Rock Me as a single, which was sold around 2.5 million times worldwide.
Emergence
In its arrangement, the song shows a significant proximity to the hit music that Andersson had accompanied on his way through the 1960s. The saxophone track was intended as a homage to the American singer Billy Vaughn . The song was one of the last to be recorded in the sessions for the ABBA album . During their tour of Sweden in the summer of 1975, two pieces that had originally been included in the program were deleted in order to sing SOS and I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do instead . This led to the following criticism:
"... ABBA are the top chefs in the computer age. Her songs consist of simple harmonies and incessant repetition. , I love you 'singing ABBA and show it to the audience. But that is a lie. ABBA do not love us, only the 20 crowns that they pull out of our pockets when the "ABBA mania" has seized us and we want to escape reality for an hour "
Success and failure
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I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do was an attempt by the group to finally get rid of their image as a one-hit wonder in the UK . The single peaked at number 38, and British magazine Melody Maker wrote that the song was "so bad it hurts". In the USA, the single reached number 15, which was the most successful position in the US charts after Waterloo . A popular the play in Australia, where for three weeks was No. 1 ranked and about 150,000 have been sold. This success is due to the music video shot in late April 1975, which was shown in the summer of 1975 on the Australian television program Count Down and made the song popular.
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
- ↑ SuperSeventies.com Waterloo
- ↑ a b Carl Magnus Palm: Abba - Story and Songs compact , p. 39.
- ↑ Carl Magnus Palm: Light and Shadow. ABBA - The True Story , p. 309.
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
- ↑ ABBA Sales ( Memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Sales figures for ABBA sound carriers in Australia