Put On Your White Sombrero

"Put On Your White Sombrero"
Single by ABBA
from the album Thank You for the Music
Released	1996
Format	CD single
Genre	Europop, Pop
Length	4:34
Label	PolyGram/Universal Music
Writer(s)	Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus
Producer	Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus
ABBA singles chronology
"Dream World" (1994) "Put On Your White Sombero" (1996)

"Put On Your White Sombrero" is a song by pop group ABBA recorded during sessions for the band's album Super Trouper released in 1980. Under the working titles (Spansk II, Pig Party On Mallorca & Padre). Although recorded in the Polar Studios in September 1980, the song did not make it to the final track list.

Despite having completed the track to their satisfaction, the group's two songwriters Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, believing that it would not make a strong single, decided to shelve it in favour of the album's title track.

The track's arrangement, however, was reused in "Cassandra", which was recorded for the group's next intended album in the Summer of 1982, a project that was later aborted and instead the group released a complilation The Singles: The First Ten Years in November 1982. Cassandra was relegated to a mere "b-side" on one of the new 1982 singles that were included on the compilation album. Cassandra has later surfaced, by popular demand, on ABBA compilation albums and on some versions of The Visitors album as a "bonus track".

"Put On Your White Sombrero" remained unreleased until 1994 when it debuted on the box set Thank You for the Music. It has subsequently been included as a bonus track on most CD reissues of Super Trouper since 1997.

It also appeared as one of the tracks on a limited edition bonus single with the ABBA Gold hits package in 1996.

Cover versions

• Belgian singer Dana Winner recorded an English language cover of the song for her 1999 album Geef Me Je Droom. She also recorded the song in Dutch as 'Zwoele zomer'.
• Dutch singer Benny Neyman also recorded a Dutch language cover, called "Kind van de wind".

References

• http://www.abba4therecord.com/cdsingles_results.php

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