Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
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| “Like An Angel Passing Through My Room” | ||
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| Song by ABBA | ||
| Album | The Visitors | |
| Released | Nov 1981 | |
| Recorded | May-Nov 1981 | |
| Label | Polar (original release)
PolyGram (1992 - 1997) Universal Music (1998 - ) |
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| Writer | Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus | |
| Producer | Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus | |
| The Visitors track listing | ||
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Like An Angel Passing Through My Room is a song by ABBA from the group's final studio album, The Visitors. It was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.
Work began on this track on 26th May, 1981 in Polar Music Studios. [1] At first, the track was given the title, 'Another Morning Without You'. In later recording sessions it was re-titled 'An Angel Walked Through My Room', 'An Angel's Passing Through My Room' and also 'Twinkle Twinkle'. At one point the song was turned into a disco track but this idea was eventually abandoned as the group felt it sounded too similar to Lay All Your Love On Me. [2] Initially the track featured vocal parts from both Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad but the final version of the song featured Anni-Frid as soloist. It is the only ABBA song to feature just one vocalist. [3]
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" Like An Angel Passing Through My Room " (1981) The opening thirty seconds of " Like An Angel Passing Through My Room," featuring the tick-tock of Benny’s synthesiser - Problems playing the files? See media help.
Unlike many other ABBA songs, the final mix of the track was sparsely produced - the entire track consisting of the soloist's vocals and the music box sound effects of the synthesiser. The sound of a ticking clock can be heard throughout the track and the effect was produced by Andersson's mini-moog.
The designer of the album sleeve for The Visitors, Rune Söderqvist, was partly inspired by this song's theme when he conceived the idea of photographing the group standing before Julius Kronberg's painting of an angelic-looking Eros. [4]
[edit] Cover versions
- The melody featured in the 1983 London version of the musical Abbacadabra and was re-titled 'When Dreamers Close Their Eyes' with new lyrics by David Wood and Don Black.
- British singer Hazell Dean recorded a cover of the song in the 1990s for her own ABBA tribute album.
- In October 2000, Benny Andersson returned to this track when he was invited to play piano on Anne Sofie von Otter's cover version, which appears on the album Anne Sofie von Otter meets Elvis Costello - For The Stars.
- Also, in 2000, William Orbit recorded a version of the song with Madonna. It has yet to be released. [5]
- Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø included an English language cover of the song on her 2006 album Into Paradise.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Magnus Palm, C: "ABBA The Complete Recording sessions", page 110. Century 22 Ltd, 1994
- ^ Magnus Palm, C: "ABBA The Complete Recording sessions", page 113. Century 22 Ltd, 1994
- ^ Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
- ^ Magnus Palm, C: "Bright Lights, Dark Shadows", page 445. Omnibus Press, 2001
- ^ http://http://www.williamorbit.com/
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