Did ABBA ever record Christmas songs?

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agnetha_andrea - 11.12.2007, 01:29
Did ABBA ever record Christmas songs?
Hi guys,

Now that Christmas time is close, I've already looked for some Christmas carols and music for this month.
So I was wondering if ABBA ever record a Christmas song, or at least, in their solo careers (pre or post ABBA).
What do you know?

Love,
Andrea :wink:

MarryMeAgnetha - 11.12.2007, 01:50

Hello Andrea!

To the best of my knowledge, ABBA never recorded any Christmas songs. I guess we'll just have to consider that a missed opportunity.

However, in 1980 the album Nu Tändas Tusen Julejus (Now a Thousand Christmas Candles are Lit) was released. It features Agnetha and her daughter Linda singing Christmas songs. Linda must have been about 8 at the time.

ABBA fans have had a mixed reaction to this album. For whatever it's worth, I just love it. The arrangements and musicians are great. Linda's voice is very cute -- even if she's not perfectly in tune all the time! And of course Agnetha never sounded better.

Both Benny and Frida have recorded some Christmas music since the ABBA days. I hope someone more knowledgeable than I can tell you more about that.

--Daniel

Joe - 11.12.2007, 01:54

Frida's Christmas songs are discussed in an own thread
http://www.iphpbb.com/board/ftopic-30652567nx61610-2972.html

Agnetha's Christmas songs with Linda have an own thread as well
http://www.iphpbb.com/board/ftopic-30652567nx61610-1064.html

Some more I know of:

As posted already in the Frida thread above ABBA sung "Nu är det jul igen" (including greetings) on the German radio show "Mal Sondock's Hitparade": http://www.mal-sondock-fanpage.de
Direct link to the download page (scroll down for ABBA)
http://www.mal-sondock-fanpage.de/downloadcenter/Jede_Menge_Gruesse/index.php

Hep Stars:
Jingle Bells
Nu tandas tusen julejus
Dotter sion
Stilla natt
Gläns över sjö ooch strand
White Christmas

Hootenanny Singers:
Ga sion, din konung att möta
Nu tandas tusen julejus

Joachim

Maxi-saxi - 11.12.2007, 01:57

The closest ABBA ever got to in Recording A Christmas Song I guess Would be Happy New Year.

Daniel is right About The
Album with Linda and Agnetha , although I believe all Members of The group before becoming involved with ABBA May have recorded Christmas songs as solo artists.

Maxi-saxi :D

Carribean - 11.12.2007, 02:13

Maxi-saxi wrote: I believe all Members of The group before becoming involved with ABBA May have recorded Christmas songs as solo artists.
Maxi-saxi :D

As Joachim already pointed out: Bjorn and Benny indeed had and so had Frida but Agnetha did not record a Christmas song until 1980 when she recorded with Linda.

onlyabba4me - 16.12.2007, 15:51

It is a pity that ABBA never recorded any Christmas Songs.

Any Act who was big, & did so, will now live forever in the UK
Singles Chart. Songs can now enter the Charts by Download Sales
only - they no longer have to be on Sale, as CD's, in the Stores.

This means that every Christmas will now see many old Christmas
Hits back in the UK Singles Chart - there are already 8 such 'Oldies'
in the UK Top 40.

ABBA WOULD be in there too - if only they had recorded some
Christmas Songs.

Instead, they MAY make the UK Charts in late December,
or early January with, 'Happy New Year', but it is not well
known, (these days), outside ABBA Fans, & it was never
ABBA at their catchiest anyhow. It is touch & go if UK
people will Download it enough to get it into the Charts.

drimnagh - 08.01.2008, 14:32

'Super Trouper' sounded kind of Christmas-y, didn't it? And it was released at that time of the year.

-J

Joe - 08.01.2008, 16:11

I'm pretty sure this link already has been posted in another thread somewhere, but it might be helpful to have it here as well.

"Jingle Bells" by Björn & Benny
(from "Veronica Muziekspecial" 1977, Dutch TV)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2NLGozR6UB0

Actually I'm glad ABBA haven't recorded a Christmas album, right because so many have done or do so. In fact it's quite a surprise they haven't, because they really knew about making money, but it makes them just a little bit special that they could resist this opportunity.

Maybe because they didn't like writing/recording music for a certain purpose instead of freely following their own inspirations!?

Joachim

Pabs - 08.01.2008, 17:39

For the same reason Joe mentions, I'm grateful ABBA didn't do a christmas album or single.

The critics already gave them such a hard time about being commercial. If they'd done a christmas song, the critics and ABBA-haters everywhere would've said "You see! What more proof did we need to illustrate they're as greedy as hell!" A christmas song would have confirmed to their enemies that ABBA was just an unfeeling, cynical music-machine.

welshabbalover - 08.01.2008, 17:46

I agree,
I think ABBA has it tough enough as it was at the time. I don't think they needed to do anything like that anyway, especially seeing as their great music would only feel suitable for a small part of the year

Samy

Toni - 08.01.2008, 18:58

I think they never even thought about making a christmas album. Nobody expected such a thing from ABBA in their active time. They were busy enough to make a regular studio album every year. In 1978 they even not managed this.

Yes itŽs good that ABBA music is for the whole year. It would be a pity for every song, which canŽt be played between January and late autumn.

On the other hand, I would love a christmas album of ABBA, with original compositions of Björn and Benny, because IŽm a big x-mas fan.

What their critics and enemies would say isnŽt important for me. I hear what I like, not what the critics advise.

MarryMeAgnetha - 09.01.2008, 01:56

Well put, Toni, especially the part about the critics.

There's no point in trying to change the mind of someone who hates ABBA (that became very clear to me shortly after becoming an ABBA fan), and we already know what kind of things they're going to say, so why bother listening to them?

--Daniel

Maxi-saxi - 09.01.2008, 04:50

Thanks for the link Joe

Maxi-saxi

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