Ring Ring (album)

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Ring Ring
Studio album by ABBA
Released	March 26, 1973
Recorded	March 1972- March 1973
Genre	Pop
Length	36:09
Label	Polar (original release) PolyGram (1992 - 1997) Universal Music (1998 - )
Producer	Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
ABBA chronology
Ring Ring (1973) Waterloo (1974)
Alternate cover
CD re-issue with ABBA logo.

Ring Ring is the first 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; an international CD release followed in 1992. 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.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 CD re-issues, bonus tracks 3 Personnel 4 Production 5 Links

[edit] Track listing

Side A:

1. "Ring Ring" (Andersson, Stig Anderson, Ulvaeus, Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody) – 3:06
2. "Another Town, Another Train" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 3:13
3. "Disillusion" (Fältskog, Ulvaeus) – 3:07
4. "People Need Love" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 2:46
5. "I Saw It in the Mirror" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 2:34
6. "Nina, Pretty Ballerina" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 2:53

Side B:

1. "Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 2:55
2. "Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 2:52
3. "He Is Your Brother" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 3:19
4. "She's My Kind of Girl" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 2:45
5. "I Am Just a Girl" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 3:03
6. "Rock'n Roll Band" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 3:11

[edit] CD re-issues, bonus tracks

Ring Ring was remastered and reissued in 1997 with the same track listing

Ring Ring was remastered and reissued in 2001 with three bonus tracks:

13. "Merry-Go-Round" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 3:26
14. "Santa Rosa" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 3:01
15. "Ring Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal)" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 3:10

Ring Ring was remastered and reissued again in 2005 as part of the The Complete Studio Recordings box set with several bonus tracks:

13. "Ring Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal)" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 3:08
14. "Åh, Vilka Tider" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 2:33
    • B-side of "Ring Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal)".
15. "Merry-Go-Round" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 3:26
    • B-side of "People Need Love".
16. "Santa Rosa" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 3:01
    • B-side of "He Is Your Brother".
17. "Ring Ring (Spanish Version)" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus, Doris Band) – 3:01
18. "Wer Im Wartesaal Der Liebe Steht" (Andersson, Ulvaeus, Fred Jay) – 3:21
    • German version of "Another Town, Another Train", B-side of "Ring Ring (German Version)".
19. "Ring Ring (German Version)" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus, Peter Lach) – 3:09

[edit] Personnel

ABBA

• Benny Andersson – piano, keyboards, vocals, mellotron
• Agnetha Fältskog – vocals
• Anni-Frid Lyngstad – vocals
• Björn Ulvaeus – acoustic guitar, guitar, vocals

Additional personnel

• Ola Brunkert – drums
• Rutger Gunnarsson – electric bass
• Roger Palm – drums
• Janne Schaffer – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Mike Watson – electric bass

[edit] Production

• Producers: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
• Engineer: Michael B. Tretow
• Assistant engineers: Björn Almstedt, Lennart Karlsmyr, Rune Persson
• Remastering: Jon Astley, Michael B. Tretow
• String arrangements: Sven-Olof Walldoff
• Photography: Lars Falck, Bengt H. Malmqvist
• Original album design: Peter Wiking

[edit] Links

• Sites showing various 'Ring Ring' Releases [1], [2]

v • d • e ABBA Agnetha Fältskog • Björn Ulvaeus • Benny Andersson • Anni-Frid Lyngstad Studio albums Ring Ring • Waterloo • ABBA • Arrival • The Album • Voulez-Vous • Super Trouper • The Visitors Compilations Greatest Hits • Greatest Hits Vol. 2 • Gracias Por La Música • The Singles: The First Ten Years • ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits • More ABBA Gold: More ABBA Hits • ABBA Oro: Grandes Éxitos • Thank You for the Music • The Definitive Collection • The Complete Studio Recordings • Number Ones Hit singles "People Need Love" • "He Is Your Brother" • "Ring Ring" • "Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)" • "Waterloo" • "Honey, Honey" • "So Long" • "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" • "SOS" • "Mamma Mia" • "Fernando" • "Dancing Queen" • "Money, Money, Money" • "Knowing Me, Knowing You" • "The Name of the Game" • "Take a Chance on Me" • "Eagle" • "Summer Night City" • "Chiquitita" • "Does Your Mother Know" • "Voulez-Vous" • "Angeleyes" • "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" • "I Have a Dream" • "The Winner Takes It All" • "On and On and On" • "Super Trouper" • "Lay All Your Love on Me" • "One of Us" • "When All is Said and Done" • "Head over Heels" • "The Visitors" • "The Day Before You Came" • "Under Attack" • "Thank You for the Music" Related articles Discography • Unreleased songs • Eurovision Song Contest 1974 • Mamma Mia! (musical) • Mamma Mia! (film) • Congratulations • Music of Sweden • Stig Anderson • "Thank ABBA for the Music"