Our last summer
| Our last summer | |
|---|---|
| Degradation | |
| publication | November 23, 1980 |
| length | 4:19 |
| Genre (s) | Pop rock |
| text | Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus |
| Label | Polar Music , PolyGram (1992-1997), Universal Music (from 1998) |
| album | Super trouper |
| Cover versions | |
| 1996 | Hazell Dean |
| 1999 | A-Teens |
Our Last Summer is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA and comes from the seventh studio album Super Trouper . Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus wrote and produced this song.
On June 4, 1980, recording began in the Polar Music studios . Anni-Frid Lyngstad sang the main voice . The photographer Anders Hanser created a series of pictures from this recording session.
In the background the song Anthem from the musical Chess can be heard during the solo by guitarist Lasse Wellander in the bridge . Andersson and Ulvaeus had been working on the melody of this song for several years , but could not bring it to any ABBA project. When they integrated it into the musical Chess , they hoped that no one noticed that this passage was already used in the song Our Last Summer .
While writing this song, Ulvaeus recalled a romance he had as a teenager while visiting the French capital, Paris .
Cover versions
British singer Hazell Dean covered the song for her 1996 tribute album The Winner Takes It All - Hazell Dean Sings Abba . In 1999 the pop group A * Teens released their version on the debut album The ABBA Generation .
The song was also featured in the musical Mamma Mia! used. The author Catherine Johnsen named the character Harry after the text. In the film version , Harry, played by Colin Firth , and Sophie ( Amanda Seyfried ) mainly sing . However, Sam ( Pierce Brosnan ) and Bill ( Stellan Skarsgård ) also have their say. The three potential fathers who were invited by Sophie to her wedding tell her how they spent last summer with her mother Donna.
Web links
- Lyrics of Our Last Summer on Songtexte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Magnus Palm: ABBA. The Complete Recording sessions . Ed .: Dick Wallis. Verulam Publishing Ltd, London 1994, ISBN 978-0-907938-10-1 , pp. 98 (English).
- ↑ Carl Magnus Palm: From Abba to Mamma Mia! Billboard Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0-8230-8317-6 , pp. 84-89 (English).
- ↑ Magnus Palm: ABBA. The Complete Recording sessions . Ed .: Dick Wallis. Verulam Publishing Ltd, London 1994, ISBN 978-0-907938-10-1 , pp. 99 (English).
- ↑ Judy Craymer, Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus: Mamma Mia! How Can I Resist You? The Inside Story of Mamma Mia! and the Songs of ABBA . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2006, ISBN 978-0-297-84421-1 , pp. 104 (English).
- ↑ Hazell Dean - The Winner Takes It All. Retrieved April 9, 2019 .
- ↑ A * Teens - The ABBA Generation. Retrieved April 9, 2019 .