ABBA – Happy New Year

“Happy New Year” – single by ABBA from the album Super Trouper. Released 15 December 1980. B-side “Andante, Andante”

“Happy New Year” is a song by  ABBA from their 1980 album Super Trouper, with lead vocals by Agnetha Fältskog. It originally had a very limited release as a single in December of that year. The song’s working title was “Daddy Don’t Get Drunk on Christmas Day”.

Almost two decades later (in 1999), the song was released again as a single. This re-released version charted in a few countries, including in ABBA’s own Sweden. In Sweden, it peaked at number 4 in 2008.

This was one of several songs on Super Trouper written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus during a working holiday in Barbados. The song actually started life as an idea for a musical. The plot was to be centered around a New Year’s Eve, a thought that got into Björn and Benny’s heads on a plane over to the island. They ran into the comedian John Cleese at the holiday resort and asked him if he would be interested in writing a manuscript. When Cleese turned them down, the idea was abandoned.

This classic was recorded at the iconic Polar Music Studios located in Stockholm, Sweden. The recording studio in question gave birth to many an ABBA song.

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“Happy New Year” este o melodie a grupului ABBA de pe albumul lor din 1980 Super Trouper. Vocea principală este de Agnetha Fältskog. Titlul de lucru al cântecului a fost mai festiv și mai plin de umor „Daddy Don’t Get Drunk on Christmas Day”. Deși înregistrată în 1980, piesa în limba engleză a fost lansată ca single în Europa în 1999.
Benny Andersson și Björn Ulvaeus de la ABBA au compus „Anul Nou fericit” în timpul unei vacanțe de lucru în Barbados.
Partea instrumentală a fost înregistrată în februarie 1980, cu vocile, inclusiv Agnetha Fältskog, adăugate în aprilie.

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