'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)' was written and composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, with the lead vocal sun...

'Chiquitita' proved to be one of Abba's bigger hits. It was featured in the Music for UNICEF Concert, broadcast worldwide from ...

While 'Summer night city' was recorded during sessions for the group's then-upcoming sixth studio album Voulez-Vous (1979), it ...

This double A-side single was also released as a double A-side single in Japan, with almost exactly the same sleeve - with some added Japane...

Contrary to most of those earlier Abba singles, 'Take a chance on me' came with a similar sleeve to European ones in Japan. The only...

Yet another copy of 'The name of the game', this time from Japan. Originally, another track entitled 'Hole in Your Soul' was...

Abba (especially Benny Andersson) wanted to release 'Dancing Queen' as the follow-up single to 'Mamma Mia' but their manager...

I went through some recent acquisitions pertaining to Abba yesterday, but I also bought a few Japanese pressings a bit longer ago, which I w...

In the UK, the double A-side single was called ' Angeleyes / Voulez-vous ', but in Europe the non-alphabetical order 'Voulez-vou...

The song you knew as ' Money, money, money ' was called 'Money, money' in Italy. At least, it seems that way when you look a...

I know I did an entry on ' The name of the game ' in September, but that was before I went to Vienna and found this copy of the same...

Along with ' I do, I do, I do ' I bought another Abba single in Vienna with a strikingly different sleeve. And again, this one was m...

With ' Mathema solfege ' the quartet consisting of Paschalis Arvanitidis, Marianna Tolli, Robert Williams and Bessy Argyrake represe...

The song most people know as 'I do, I do, I do, I do, I do' was presented as 'I do, I do, I do' on this colour Austrian slee...

Finding different versions of Abba singles has become a minor obsession, but that's because it's so interesting to see the various v...

There were a lot of different incarnations of the single 'Denis' by Blondie. I own the Dutch version , of course, but the German pre...

Maurice White saw the movie  Close Encounters of the Third Kind  and became so inspired, that he wrote 'Fantasy', together with Eddi...

Although 'Gentlemen callers not allowed' was presented as a single by Gilla & Bobby at some point, but originally it was simply...

Edina Pop was born in Budapest as Marika Késmárki on 4 February 1941. She came to Germany in 1969 and forged a singing career in German. Som...

Some singles by Cliff Richard have appeared on this blog recently, but there was always one single that I couldn't find anywhere. It...