ABBA : Dancing Queen Japan ( HQ 60f) Subtitles
The group began work on recording the song on August 4, 1975 in Glen Studio in Stocksund. The earliest demo recording had the working title Boogaloo. During the recording, they were inspired by the dance rhythm in George McCrae s Rock Your Baby from 1974. Agnetha Fältskog and AnniFrid Lyngstad recorded the vocal parts in September 1975 and after mixing the recording was finished three months later. AnniFrid Lyngstad told in the book ABBA the people and the music in 1996; Dancing Queen is my favorite of the Abba songs. I remember Benny coming home with a tape with the background recorded on it and playing it for me. I thought it was so amazingly beautiful that I started to cry. During the studio work, one half of the then first verse was cut out. The deleted lyrics read: Baby, baby, you re out of sight, hey, you re looking all right tonight, when you come to the party, listen to the guys, they ve got the look in their eyes, followed by Your, 39
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