Lay All Your Love on Me
| Lay All Your Love on Me | |
|---|---|
| ABBA | |
| publication | July 1981 |
| length | 4:32 |
| Genre (s) | Synthpop , europop |
| Author (s) |
Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus |
| Producer (s) | Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus |
| Label | Polar Music |
| album | Super trouper |
| Cover versions | |
| 1989 | Lay All Your Love on Me ( Information Society ) |
| 2006 | Lay All Your Love on Me ( Sylver ) |
Lay All Your Love on Me is a song that Swedish pop group ABBA recorded for their seventh studio album Super Trouper in 1980. The original was only released as a 12-inch single in some countries in 1981, not the standard 7-inch record. At that time it was the best-selling 12-inch record in the history of the British charts, where it climbed to number 7. "Lay All Your Love on Me" appears on the compilation ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits .
The Slant Magazine placed it at number 60 of its list of the greatest dance songs of all time.
history
Lay All Your Love on Me is an electro disco song by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus , with Agnetha Fältskog as lead singer. The recordings began on September 9, 1980 at Polar Music Studios in Stockholm , the final mixing was completed on October 10, 1980.
Lay All Your Love on Me is known for having a descending vocal sound at the end of the verse just before the chorus. This was achieved by sending the vocals into a harmonizer which was set to produce a slightly deeper version of the vocals. In return, its output was fed back to its input, which continuously lowered the pitch of the singing. Andersson and Ulvaeus felt that the chorus of the song sounded like a hymn, so portions of the chanting in the choirs were passed through a vocoder to reproduce the sound of a church chant slightly out of tune. The song was not originally intended to be released as a single, but was released in the UK and a few other countries in 12-inch format in 1981. "Lay All Your Love on Me" has been covered a lot since then and is now part of the Mamma Mia! -Musicals featuring many of ABBA's hits.
Music video
ABBA didn't shoot a promotional video for Lay All Your Love on Me , so Epic rushed to make a video from the existing ABBA videos for Take a Chance on Me , Summer Night City , The Name of the Game , I Have a Dream , Voulez- Vous and The Winner Takes It All put together.
Reception
Since Lay All Your Love on Me was n't meant to be a single, it wasn't released until 1981, a year after it was recorded. It was only after a remix version by Raul A. Rodriguez - (aka COD) of Disconet - gained popularity in nightclubs that the song topped the US Hot Dance Club Play Charts (along with Super Trouper and On and On and On ) . That's why the decision was made to release Lay All Your Love on Me in some countries in 12-inch format, as opposed to the standard 7-inch single. The single peaked at number 7 in the UK and became ABBA's lowest chart single since I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do in 1975. However, reaching number 7 on the charts at the time was the highest chart position reached for a 12-inch version in Great Britain. Lay All Your Love on Me also hit the charts in Ireland (No. 8), Belgium (No. 14) and Germany (No. 26).
Contributors
- Agnetha Fältskog - main vocals
- Anni-Frid Lyngstad - vocals
- Benny Andersson - keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals
- Björn Ulvaeus - guitar, backing vocals
- Let Wellander - guitar
- Rutger Gunnarsson - bass
- Ola Brunkert - drums
Cover versions
Information Society version
Lay All Your Love on Me was covered by American techno-pop band Information Society on their 1988 self-titled debut album. The title peaked at number 83 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989. It was later included in the ABBA: A Tribute - The 25th Anniversary Celebration compilation.
- Track list
- "Lay All Your Love on Me" (Justin Strauss Remix)
- "Lay All Your Love on Me" (Restricted Re-mix)
- "Lay All Your Love on Me" (Prohibited Dub)
- "Lay All Your Love on Me" (Radio Hot Mix)
- "Lay All Your Love on Me" (Phil Harding Metal Mega-Mix)
- "Funky at 45"
Helloween version
Lay All Your Love on Me was covered by Helloween on their metal jukebox album. It was released as a single in Japan.
- Single track listing
| No. | title | length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Lay All Your Love on Me (ABBA cover) | 4:38 |
| 2. | From Out of Nowhere ( Faith No More cover) | 3:21 |
| 3. | Something ( The Beatles cover) | 3:09 |
- Credits
- Andi Deris - vocals
- Roland Grapow - guitar
- Michael Weikath - guitar
- Markus Grosskopf - bass guitar
- Uli Kusch - drums
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Slant Magazine 100 Greatest Dance Songs
- ^ Carl Magnus Palm: ABBA - The Complete Recordings Sessions . Verulam Publishing Ltd., 1994, ISBN 0-907938-10-8 , p. 101.
- ^ Discomusic.com Profile of Raul Rodriguez . Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved on December 5, 2012.
- ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco: 1974-2003 . Ed .: Record Research. 2004, ISBN 978-0-89820-156-7 , pp. 15 .