Knowing Me, Knowing You
| Knowing Me, Knowing You | |
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| ABBA | |
| publication | 4th February 1977 |
| length | 4:00 |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| Author (s) | Benny Andersson , Björn Ulvaeus , Stikkan Anderson |
| music | Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus |
| Label | Polar |
| album | Arrival |
Knowing Me, Knowing You is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA from 1976. It was written by Benny Andersson , Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson , the lead vocals were sung by Anni-Frid Lyngstad . The piece was first released on the album Arrival and was released in February 1977 as the last single from the album.
Emergence
The song was the first to be recorded in the recording sessions for the Arrival album on March 23, 1976. The guitar overdubs were added on May 25th. Knowing Me, Knowing You was the first ABBA song to deal with the subject of "broken relationships". Later ABBA songs like The Winner Takes It All , One of Us and When All Is Said And Done deal with the same subject. Before Stig Anderson delivered the final title, working titles like Ring It In or Number One, Number One came into question. Björn Ulvaeus said of the lyrics he wrote:
“Even if that's deeply rooted in you and based on something you've experienced, the lyrics are still 90 percent fiction. I only worked with pictures. I saw this man walking through his empty house for the last time - a symbol of divorce. I only described what I saw. Personally, I hadn't gone through that yet. "
The B-side of the single, Happy Hawaii, has been replaced by other titles in some countries, such as Money, Money, Money in Hungary and Italy .
successes
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The single was released during ABBA's Europe-Australia tour and entered the charts in 19 countries. It became a number one hit in Germany , Great Britain , Ireland , Mexico and South Africa. In Great Britain, Knowing Me, Knowing You became ABBA's best-selling single after Dancing Queen and received the gold record for 845,000 copies sold . In addition, the single came in at number 2 in Austria, Belgium and Canada, at number 3 in Switzerland and the Netherlands, at number 5 in Costa Rica, at number 6 in Norway, at number 7 in France, at number 8 in New Zealand, at number 11 in Zimbabwe, # 14 in the US, # 16 in Finland, and # 24 in Spain. In Australia, where every new ABBA single had reached top position as part of Abbamania in 1976 , Knowing Me, Knowing You only came in 9th.
literature
- Carl Magnus Palm: Abba. Story and songs compact. Bosworth Edition, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86543-227-8 (German translation: Cecilia Senge).
- Carl Magnus Palm: Light and Shadow. ABBA - The real story. Bosworth Edition, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-86543-100-4 (German translation: Helmut Müller).
Web links
- Knowing Me, Knowing You - three decades of heartache . Retrieved July 23, 2018
- Lyrics on golyr.de
- Music video on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ ABBA Gold - The Success Story, p. 58
- ^ Carl Magnus Palm: ABBA - Story and Songs compact, p. 47.
- ↑ http://www.abbaannual.com/
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
- ↑ ABBA Charts: Mexico ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 12, 2016
- ↑ ABBA Charts: South Africa ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 12, 2016
- ↑ ABBA Sales: UK Sales ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ABBA Charts: Costa Rica ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 12, 2016
- ↑ infodisc.fr Tous les Titres de l'Artiste choisi, accessed on May 12, 2016
- ↑ ABBA Charts: Zimbabwe ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 12, 2016
- ↑ ABBA Charts: Finland ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 12, 2016
- ↑ ABBA Charts: Españole / Spain ( Memento of the original of October 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Retrieved May 12, 2016
