- Voulez-Vous
Infobox Album | Name = Voulez-Vous
Type =Album
Artist =ABBA
Released =April 23 ,1979
Recorded = March 1978-
March 1979
Genre =Europop /Disco
Length = 41:33
Label =Polar (original release)PolyGram (1992 - 1997)
Universal Music (1998 - )
Producer =Benny Andersson &Björn Ulvaeus
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:o6rz28oi054a~T1 link]
Last album = "The Album "
(1977)
This album = "Voulez-Vous"
(1979)
Next album = "Greatest Hits Vol. 2"
(1979) |"Voulez-Vous" is the sixth studio
album by Swedish pop groupABBA , released in 1979. It was the first ABBA album to be recorded at Polar Music Studios in Stockholm, and the only ABBA album to include a studio recording made outside Sweden. "Voulez-Vous" sold more than 400,000 in UK in the first week alone [http://www.abbasite.com/start/index.php?ret=/start/index.php&flash=yes] "Voulez-Vous" was first released in CD in 1984. The album has been reissued in digitally remastered form three times; first in 1997, then in 2001 and again in 2005 as part of the "The Complete Studio Recordings"box set .Track listing
All songs by Andersson and Ulvaeus.
Side A:
#"As Good as New " – 3:24
#"Voulez-Vous" – 5:09
#"I Have a Dream" – 4:45
#"Angeleyes " – 4:20
#"The King Has Lost His Crown" – 3:32Side B:
#"Does Your Mother Know " – 3:13
#"If It Wasn't for the Nights" – 5:09
#"Chiquitita " – 5:26
#"Lovers (Live a Little Longer)" – 3:30
#"Kisses of Fire" – 3:16CD re-issues, bonus tracks
"Voulez-Vous" was remastered and reissued in 1997 with two bonus tracks:
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Summer Night City " – 3:34 - "Lovelight" – 3:46
"Voulez-Vous" was remastered and reissued in 2001 with one other bonus track:
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Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) " – 4:52
"Voulez-Vous" was remastered and reissued again in 2005 as part of the "The Complete Studio Recordings" box set with several bonus tracks:
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Summer Night City " – 3:36 - "Lovelight" – 3:49
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Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) " – 4:51 - "
Estoy Soñando " (Andersson, Ulvaeus, Buddy McCluskey, Mary McCluskey) – 4:40
*Spanish version of "I Have a Dream". Released as a single in Spain and Latin America, 1979. - "
Chiquitita " (Spanish Version) (Andersson, Ulvaeus, B. McCluskey, M. McCluskey) – 5:35
*Released as a single in Spain and Latin America, 1979. - "
¡Dame! ¡Dame! ¡Dame! " (Andersson, Ulvaeus, B. McCluskey, M. McCluskey) – 4:49
*Spanish version of "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) ".
ingles
# "Chiquitita"/"Lovelight" (January 1979)
# "Does Your Mother Know"/"Kisses of Fire" (April 1979)
# "Voulez-Vous"(single edit)/"Angel Eyes" (July 1979)
# "Angel Eyes"/"Voulez-Vous"(single edit) (July 1979)
# "As Good as New"/"I Have a Dream"(French version) (1979)
# "I Have a Dream"/"Take a Chance on Me"(live) (December 1979)Personnel
ABBA
*Benny Andersson –synthesizer , keyboards, vocals
*Agnetha Fältskog – vocals
*Anni-Frid Lyngstad – vocals
*Björn Ulvaeus –banjo ,guitar , vocalsAdditional personnel
*Rolf Alex – drums
*Ola Brunkert – drums
*Lars Carlsson – horn
*Anders Eljas – horn
*Joe Galdo – drums
*Malando Gassama – percussion
*Rutger Gunnarsson – bass
*Paul Harris –piano
*Janne Kling – wind
*Nils Landgren –trombone
*Ish Ledesma – guitar
*Roger Palm – drums
*Halldor Palsson –tenor saxophone
*Arnold Paseiro – bass
*Jan Risberg –oboe
*Janne Schaffer – guitar
*Johan Stengård – tenor saxophone
*Åke Sundqvist – percussion
*George Terry – guitar
*Mike Watson – bass
*Lasse Wellander – guitar
*Kajtek Wojciechowski – tenor saxophoneProduction
*Producers: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
*Engineer: Michael B. Tretow
*Arrangers: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Anders Eljas, Rutger Gunnarsson
*Design: Rune Söderqvist
*Photography: Ola LagerCharts
Album
Singles - Norway
External links
*Site showing various 'Voulez-Vous' Releases [http://66.235.213.139/~abbagall/collection/cd_voulez_vous_official.htm]
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