ABBA - Voulez Vous (Lp) (1979) - €10,00

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Voulez-Vous (pronounced [vule vu]; French for “Do you want (to)?”) is the sixth studio album by the Swedish supergroup ABBA. Released on 23 April 1979, the album yielded five hits, all of them big 1979 singles in Britain – “Chiquitita“, “Does Your Mother Know“, “I Have a Dream” and the double A-side “Voulez-Vous“/”Angeleyes“.

That it took nearly a year to record Voulez-Vous is an indicator of the creative and personal constraints in which the four members of ABBA found themselves at the end of the ’70s.
Their sixth album coincided with the marital split between Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus and the massively shifting currents in popular music, with disco, which had been on the wane, suddenly undergoing a renaissance thanks to the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever.
Thus, about half of Voulez-Vous shows the heavy influence of the Bee Gees from their megahit disco era.

It was the first ABBA album to be mainly recorded at Polar Studios in Stockholm, and the only ABBA album to include a studio recording made outside Sweden: the instrumental backing track for the title track was partly recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami.

Side A

A1.  As Good as New - 3:24

A2.  Voulez-Vous - 5:09

A3.  I Have a Dream - 4:45

A4.  Angeleyes - 4:20

A5.  The King Has Lost His Crown - 3:32

Side B

B1.  Does Your Mother Know - 3:13

B2.  If It Wasn’t for the Nights - 5:09

B3.  Chiquitita - 5:26

B4.  Lovers (Live a Little Longer) - 3:30

B5.  Kisses of Fire - 3:16

Personnel

• Agnetha Fältskog – Lead vocals (1, 8, 10) Co Lead Vocals (2, 7, 9) Backing Vocals
• Anni-Frid Lyngstad – Lead vocals (3, 4, 5) Co Lead Vocals (2, 7, 9) backing vocals
• Björn Ulvaeus – banjo, guitar, Lead vocals (6) Backing vocals
• Benny Andersson – synthesizer, keyboards, Backing vocals

 

Additional musicians

• 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, sitar
• Johan Stengård – tenor saxophone
• Åke Sundqvist – percussion
• George Terry – guitar 
• Mike Watson – bass
• Lasse Wellander – guitar
• Kajtek Wojciechowski – tenor saxophone
• Gunnar Mickols – violin
• Anders Dahl – violin

 

Production

• Benny Andersson; Björn Ulvaeus – producers
• Michael B. Tretow – engineer
• Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Anders Eljas, Rutger Gunnarsson – arrangers
• Rune Söderqvist – design
• Ola Lager – photography

Notes

Release: 1979

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Pop, Disco

Label:  Polydor Records

Catalog#  2344136

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover.  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00