Home | Songs By Year | Songs from 1980 | |
Me and IBuy Me and I now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the song. And once you've experienced the song, tell everyone what you thought about it. | |
Wikipedia article"'Me and I'" is a song from ABBA's 1980 album 'Super Trouper'. As with much of ABBA's 1980s output, the song features use of a synthesizer, and some have classified the song as synthpop. Anni-Frid Lyngstad handles the lead vocals. BackgroundRecording began on 8 September 1980 and finished on 25 September 1980. The track acquired the following two working titles: "Jackass" and "Piccolino". It is the last song on the first side of 'Super Trouper'. In the book 'Bright Lights, Dark Shadows' by Carl Magnus Palm, he wrote the following:
In the early 1980s the instrumental segment of this song was used as theme music to BBC television coverage of bowls. Critical reception'Abba - Uncensored on the Record' described it as a "comparatively rarely heard song from the Super Trouper album". 'Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Real Story of Abba' described it as "the hidden gem" of the Super Trouper album. PerformancesThe song has been performed once, on the ABBA TV special, 'Dick Cavett Meets ABBA' in 1981. The live rendition is included on the 'Thank You for the Music' box set released in 1994. ReferencesCategory:1980 songs Category:ABBA songs | |
Buy Me and I now from Amazon <-- Return to songs from 1980 This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1002622128. |