Artist: ABBA
Album: Ring Ring
Released: March 26, 1973
Genre: Pop, pop rock, folk rock, schlager
Length: 36:09
Label: Polar
Product Details
- Audio CD (September 12, 1995)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Polygram Records
- ASIN: B000002GER
- Also Available in: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #129,704 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Tracklist:
01 Ring, Ring
02 Another Town, Another Train
03 Disillusion
04 People Need Love
05 I Saw It In The Mirror
06 Nina, Pretty Ballerina
07 Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)
08 Me And Bobby And Bobby's Brother
09 He Is Your Brother
10 She's My Kind of Girl
11 I Am Just A Girl
12 Rock'n Roll Band
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ring Ring is the debut studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released in Scandinavia and a limited number of other territories, including West Germany, Australia, South Africa and Mexico, on March 26, 1973 through Polar Music. The album was a chart-topping album in Belgium, and a big success in Holland, Norway and South Africa.
The album was re-released in Australasia in 1975, but was not released in the United Kingdom until 1992, and the United States until three years later. The re-release artwork for the album (see below) uses the name "ABBA", although at the time of the album's original release, the name ABBA had not yet been coined, and instead was awkwardly credited to "Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida". Ring Ring was first released on CD in Sweden in 1988; a West German CD release followed in 1990 (later released internationally). The album has been reissued in digitally remastered form three times; first in 1997, then in 2001 and again in 2005 as part of the The Complete Studio Recordings box set.
The original 1973 Polar version of the album opens with "Ring Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal)", the Swedish version of the track, and places the English language version as track four on side two.
The track "She's My Kind of Girl", included on the international editions, is in fact a song by Björn & Benny which dates back to 1969, which was a hit in Japan, and had also been included on the b-side of the English version of the "Ring Ring" single in Scandinavia.
Ring Ring also features a song co-written by Agnetha Fältskog. Although she had composed much of her Swedish solo output, the song "Disillusion", for which she wrote the music, is the only song released on an ABBA album to feature a songwriting contribution from her.
When the first song "People Need Love" was recorded in the Spring of 1972, the group was just one of many projects the four members were involved in. Only after the title track, "Ring Ring" became a hit, did the four decide to go on working together as a permanent group.
