So Long (ABBA song)

November 18, 1974

So Long is a song by Swedish pop group ABBA. It was composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. The song has a playing time of three minutes and five seconds, and is sung together both in the verses and the chorus of Agnetha Fältskog and Anni- Frid Lyngstad. In November 1974, has been coupled with the I've Been Waiting for You B-side as a single. In addition, an eponymous track from the drum -and- bass genre of the producer Seba and Lotek exists.

Formation

After the great success with Waterloo as a single and an album, the group began in August 1974 with the recording of their third album. So Long was one of the first songs that was recorded for this album. The shooting began on 22 August 1974 over the next two months, the song was still subjected to various revisions. It seemed to be exactly the right song, because the rhythm, arrangement and dynamics probably best fit to the success of titles Waterloo. Ultimately, the single release turned out to be a wrong decision but what Andersson later pushed to the Glen - studio where So Long, and other songs were recorded.

" The recordings that we did there, never fell out particularly well. They were much too hard and somehow metallic "

Success and Failure

The single was an attempt to reach the British charts again No. 1, but they failed. In the UK, the single was not even in the charts, just as in the United States or in Switzerland. Only in some European countries made ​​it So Long in the top ten, for example in Austria in third place. This success is likely to have resulted primarily an appearance in the music program Spotlight, which was broadcast by the ORF in November 1974 accompanying the tour of ABBA on Austrian television. The single space in Germany reached 11