Slipping Through My Fingers

Infobox Single
Name = Slipping Through My Fingers


Artist = ABBA
from Album = The Visitors
Released = 1981
Format = 7" Single
Genre = Pop/Europop
Length = 3:53
Label = Discomate (Japan)
RCA (South America)
Writer = Björn Ulvaeus,
Benny Andersson
Producer = Björn Ulvaeus,
Benny Andersson
Chart position =
Last single = "When All Is Said and Done"
(1981)
This single = "Slipping Through My Fingers"
(1981)
Next single = "Head over Heels"
(1982)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption =
Type = single


Cover size =
Lower caption = Se Me Está Escapando, Argentina
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Slipping Through My Fingers is a song written by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson and recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA from their 1981 album The Visitors, with lead vocals by Agnetha Fältskog. The song is about a girl going to school.

The inspiration for the song was Ulvaeus' and Fältskog's daughter, Linda Ulvaeus, who was five at the time the song was written.

The song was only released as a single in Japan (Discomate, 1981), where it was a red vinyl promo single for The Coca-Cola Company with nothing on the b-side except of a printed picture of the group. An album with the same name and a similar looking cover was also released in Japan.

The Spanish version

"Se Me Está Escapando" is the Spanish Language version of "Slipping Through My Fingers," with lyrics by Buddy and Mary McCluskey. The song was released as a single in Spanish speaking countries in 1982 and also included on the South American versions of the album "The Visitors". The track was first released on CD in 1994 as part of the Polydor US compilation "Más ABBA Oro", and in 1999 included on the expanded re-release of "".

Cover versions

* The song is used in the ABBA songs-based musical "Mamma Mia!" as well as the 2008 "Mamma Mia" movie adaptation where it is sung by actress Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried. The song is used when the mother, Donna, is helping her daughter, Sophie, to get ready for the wedding. In the context of the musical, Donna sings the song in a way it is as if she is reminiscing her joys but also, her regrets about raising Sophie up all alone.
* American stage musical singer Wendy Coates recorded a cover of the song for her 2001 album "Journeys".

External links

* [http://www.abba4therecord.com/singles_results.php abba4therecord.com]