Artist: ABBA
Title: Ring Ring
Genre: Pop
Year: 1973
# Tracks: 12
# CDs: 1
Length: 00:36:11
Encoder: LAME 3.98
Quality: 320 kbps
Channels: Joint Stereo
Tags: ID3v1 & ID3v2
Archive size: 77.39 MB
Ring Ring is the debut album by Swedish pop group ABBA, released in Scandinavia and a limited number of other territories, including West Germany, Australia, South Africa and Mexico, in 1973. The album was re-released in Australasia in 1975, but was not issued in the United Kingdom until 1992, and the United States until three years after. 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 Music 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 B.
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 "Ring Ring" in Scandinavia.
The album 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.
Tracklist:
01. Ring Ring
02. Another Town Another Train
03. Dissilusion
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 Bobbys 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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