Gracias Por La Música

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Gracias Por La Música
Gracias Por La Música cover
Studio album by ABBA
Released June 23, 1980
Recorded September 1979-
January 1980
Genre Pop
Length 41:18
Label Polar
Producer(s) Agnetha Fältskog, Frida, Michael Tretow
Professional reviews
ABBA chronology
Greatest Hits Vol. 2
(1979)
Gracias Por La Música
(1980)
Super Trouper
(1980)


Gracias Por La Música is a 1980 album by Swedish pop group ABBA (see 1980 in music). Gracias Por La Música was originally released due to the unexpected break of popularity for the group in Latin countries such as Mexico and Argentina. The album was out of print for a number of years in 1999 when the compilation CD ABBA Oro: Grandes Exitos, which contained the ten tracks of Gracias Por La Música plus five additional Spanish tracks, was released, rendering this album obsolete.

[edit] Track listing

all Spanish lyrics provided by Buddy and Mary McCluskey

[edit] Side A

  1. "Gracias Por La Música" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 3:49
  2. "La Reina Del Baile - Reina Danzante" (Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 4:02*
  3. "Al Andar" (Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 4:44
  4. "¡Dame! ¡Dame! ¡Dame!" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 4:51
  5. "Fernando" (Spanish version) (Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 4:17

[edit] Side B

  1. "Estoy Soñando" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 4:38
  2. "Mamma Mia" (Spanish version) (Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 3:34
  3. "Hasta Mañana" (Spanish version) (Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 3:09
  4. "Conociéndome, Conociéndote" (Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 4:04
  5. "Chiquitita "(Spanish version) (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 5:30

* The Spanish version of "Dancing Queen" was originally titled "Reina Danzante", but was retitled "La Reina Del Baile" for the 1999 ABBA Oro CD release.

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