Just like last year, the last entry in my bl og for this year has to be 'Happy New Year' by Abba. They stayed true to their traditio...

Just before the end of this year I succeeded in putting all the Abba singles I didn't post on this blog yet, although I've had them ...

For those who knew Abba mainly for their upbeat songs like 'Waterloo', 'Dancing queen' and 'Mamma mia', it would hav...

In the UK, 'One of us' was released as a regular 7" single and as a picture disc. Although the picture disc of 'One of us...

The single ' Super trouper ' was featured on this blog a long time ago. It was the Dutch pressing, with I think the most perfect cov...

The recording sessions for 'Summer night city' began in early 1978. The new recording studio, Polar Music, had opened in May 1978, b...

'Dancing queen' was released in 1976 with a photograph of the members of Abba wearing hats. The photograph was used in most territor...

Although 'Does your mother know' was one of Abba's big hits, I never really connected with the song. As a result, I only had one...

Rumour has it that Abba's old hit 'Fernando' is getting a resurgance because of the appearance of the song in the latest series ...

After about a decade of people sort of resenting Abba (God knows why) the Swedish band had their revenge when the compilation album  Abba Go...

So I bought a lot of Abba singles at the record fair last week, but only one came from Japan - my favourite country for singles. And this wa...

When I saw this sleeve of 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!', I instantly knew there was something different about it, but I couldn't really...

If the photograph on this sleeve looks familiar, it's because it also appeared on this Spanish sleeve of 'Honey, Honey' . But th...

While I bought the Spanish single of 'Fernando' I also found the Italian version. And again, the sleeve came with a different desig...

I've bought a few copies of this single. But we've had 'Money, money, money' and ' Money, money ', but this Yugoslav...

Another Spanish Abba single comes with another variation of the sleeve for 'Fernando'. Just like on 'Mamma Mia' the recommen...

In 1975 Abba released  Greatest Hits  with on the cover a caricature of the band. That version was only released in Scandinavia and Spain, w...

For some reason you wouldn't associate Abba with huge success in America, but a lot of singles were released there. It is, however, not ...

Once more I bought the single 'Chiquitita' by Abba, this time because it is the French pressing. The sleeve isn't significally d...

I saw this single on display at the Abba Museum in Stockholm last year and I thought this sleeve was absolutely beautiful. Not even necessar...