Talk:Fernando (song)
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I wouldn't call Fernando a big loss in the United States, when you look at their whole track record. ABBA was simply not as popular in the United States when compared to the UK or Australia. Mike H (Talking is hot) 04:06, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
He Is Your Brother ans People Need Love were both released as part of the Ring-Ring-LP- That's why I removed that little sentence.
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[edit] Swedish Version
Frida's version is NOT a cover but the original version! I will change the article a bit.
[edit] Fernando
In case anybody's watching this page, I recently uploaded an ABBA-related question ("Which war, and which crossing of the Rio Grande, is referred to by ABBA's song Fernando?") to Wikipedia:Reference_desk#ABBA's_Fernando. I have already received an answer (one that seems exceptionally plausible), but was wondering whether anybody else is of a different opinion. If we could get this verified, this could be added to the ABBA trivia. -Itai 13:08, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- The answer you got (Mexican-American War) agrees with what I've read about it, and my own assumption when I first learned about the war, already knowing the song at the time. Graham 23:19, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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- Björn Ulvaeus is quoted in the book ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions that he "got this strong vision in my head of two old revolutionaries in Mexico, sitting outdoors one night, reminiscing", with no reference to any particular historical event.
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- Well, OK. But where and when would "two old revolutionaries in Mexico...reminiscing" be sitting? Presumably some time after a revolution! There is the Mexican Revolution of 1910, but the song also mentions the Rio Grande, which ceased to be Mexican territory following the war with the US. So even if the song wasn't consciously referencing a particular event when it was written, it was implicitly referring to the war. I suppose it's a bit like Kate Bush's song "Oh England, My Lionheart" isn't consciously about the second word war, but with its references to Spitfires, etc, it can only mean that conflict implicitly. Graham 22:12, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
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- I find this discussion to be about as meaningful as the Folsom Prison Blues#The Folsom Prison Conundrum argument. If the composure creates a non-historic vision that implies some minor logical inconsistancy, then it falls under "artistic license". -- 67.116.253.187 04:22, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
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- I have gone ahead and removed all the speculation to specific wars since the artists claim that no such relationship exists. -- 67.116.253.187 04:30, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Are those flutes at the opening?
Those do not exactly sound like flutes at the opening of the song. Does anyone know for sure what those instruments are? The sound more like a metal panpipe or even a penny whistle-like instrument to me. -- 67.116.253.187 04:53, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
It is similar to the instruments in Simon and Garfunkel's El Cóndor Pasa or perhaps a pan flute, but I thought I saw an ABBA video with one or two instrumentalists playing a straight-on metal instrument (like a soprano sax but obviously a whistle, not a reed). -- 67.116.253.187 05:18, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] No usage error
I removed the sentence about the "usage error" in the English lyrics. To say "Since many years I haven't seen x" is perfectly good (although slightly old-fashioned) English usage.
