Voulez-Vous

Voulez-Vous
Studio album by ABBA
Released	April 23, 1979 (1979-04-23)
Recorded	March 1979
Genre	Europop / Disco
Length	41:33
Label	Polar (original release) PolyGram (1992 - 1997) Universal Music (1998 - )
Producer	Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus
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ABBA chronology
The Album (1977) Voulez-Vous (1979) Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1979)

Voulez-Vous is the sixth studio album by Swedish pop group ABBA, released in 1979. It was the first ABBA album to be recorded at Polar Music Studios in Stockholm, and the only ABBA album to include a studio recording made outside Sweden. Voulez-Vous sold more than 400,000 copies in UK in its first week of release^{[citation needed]}. Voulez-Vous was first released on CD in 1984. The album has been digitally remastered and resissued three times; first in 1997, then in 2001 and again in 2005 as part of the The Complete Studio Recordings box set.

Track listing

All songs by Andersson and Ulvaeus.

Side A:

1. "As Good as New" – 3:24
2. "Voulez-Vous" – 5:09
3. "I Have a Dream" – 4:45
4. "Angeleyes" – 4:20
5. "The King Has Lost His Crown" – 3:32

Side B:

1. "Does Your Mother Know" – 3:13
2. "If It Wasn't for the Nights" – 5:09
3. "Chiquitita" – 5:26
4. "Lovers (Live a Little Longer)" – 3:30
5. "Kisses of Fire" – 3:16

The backing track for "Voulez-Vous" was recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami.

CD re-issues, bonus tracks

Voulez-Vous was remastered and reissued in 1997 with two bonus tracks:

11. "Summer Night City" – 3:34
12. "Lovelight" – 3:46

Voulez-Vous was remastered and reissued in 2001 with one other bonus track:

13. "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" – 4:52

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

11. "Summer Night City" – 3:36
12. "Lovelight" – 3:49
13. "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" – 4:51
14. "Estoy Soñando" (Andersson, Ulvaeus, Buddy McCluskey, Mary McCluskey) – 4:40
    • Spanish version of "I Have a Dream". Released as a single in Spain and Latin America, 1979.
15. "Chiquitita" (Spanish Version) (Andersson, Ulvaeus, B. McCluskey, M. McCluskey) – 5:35
    • Released as a single in Spain and Latin America, 1979.
16. "¡Dame! ¡Dame! ¡Dame!" (Andersson, Ulvaeus, B. McCluskey, M. McCluskey) – 4:49
    • Spanish version of "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)".

Tracks 14–16 are from the album Gracias Por La Música (Septima SRLM 1, June 23, 1980).

Voulez-Vous was reissued once again in 2008 as part of the The Albums box set but without any bonus tracks.

Singles

1. "Chiquitita"/"Lovelight"¹ (January 1979)
2. "Does Your Mother Know"/"Kisses of Fire" (April 1979)
3. "Voulez-Vous" (single edit)/"Angel Eyes" (July 1979)
4. "Angeleyes"/"Voulez-Vous" (single edit) (July 1979)
5. "As Good as New"/"I Have a Dream" (French version) (1979)
6. "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"¹/"The King Has Lost His Crown" (October 1979)
7. "I Have a Dream"/"Take a Chance on Me" (live)¹ (December 1979)

• ¹ Tracks not from the album Voulez-Vous

In the UK alone, seven of the ten tracks from the album were released on singles as either 'A' or 'B' sides, the second highest number of tracks issued as singles from any ABBA album.

Personnel

ABBA

• Benny Andersson – synthesizer, keyboards, vocals
• Agnetha Fältskog – vocals
• Anni-Frid Lyngstad – vocals
• Björn Ulvaeus – banjo, guitar, vocals

Additional personnel

• Rolf Alex – drums
• Ola Brunkert – drums
• Lars Carlsson – horn
• Anders Eljas – horn
• Joe Galdo – drums
• Malando Gassama – percussion
• Rutger Gunnarsson – bass
• Paul Harris – piano
• Janne Kling – wind
• Nils Landgren – trombone
• Ish Ledesma – guitar
• Roger Palm – drums
• Halldor Palsson – tenor saxophone
• Arnold Paseiro – bass
• Jan Risberg – oboe
• Janne Schaffer – guitar
• Johan Stengård – tenor saxophone
• Åke Sundqvist – percussion
• George Terry – guitar
• Mike Watson – bass
• Lasse Wellander – guitar
• Kajtek Wojciechowski – tenor saxophone

Production

• Producers: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
• Engineer: Michael B. Tretow
• Arrangers: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Anders Eljas, Rutger Gunnarsson
• Design: Rune Söderqvist
• Photography: Ola Lager
• Remastered for the 1997 Remasters by Jon Astley and Tim Young with Michael B. Tretow
• Remastered for the 2001 Remasters by Jon Astley with Michael B. Tretow
• Remastered for the 2005 Complete Studio Recordings Box Set by Henrik Jonsson

Lyrics

People everywhere A sense of expectation hanging in the air Giving out a spark Across the room your eyes are glowing in the dark And here we go again, we know the start, we know the end Masters of the scene We've done it all before and now we're back to get some more You know what I mean

Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Take it now or leave it (ah-ha) Now is all we get (ah-ha) Nothing promised, no regrets Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Ain't no big decision (ah-ha) You know what to do (ah-ha) La question c'est voulez-vous Voulez-vous...

I know what you think "The girl means business so I'll offer her a drink" Feeling mighty proud I see you leave your table, pushing through the crowd I'm really glad you came, you know the rules, you know the game Master of the scene We've done it all before and now we're back to get some more You know what I mean

Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Take it now or leave it (ah-ha) Now is all we get (ah-ha) Nothing promised, no regrets Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Ain't no big decision (ah-ha) You know what to do (ah-ha) La question c'est voulez-vous

And here we go again, we know the start, we know the end Masters of the scene We've done it all before and now we're back to get some more You know what I mean

Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Take it now or leave it (ah-ha) Now is all we get (ah-ha) Nothing promised, no regrets Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Ain't no big decision (ah-ha) You know what to do (ah-ha) La question c'est voulez-vous Voulez-vous...

Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Take it now or leave it (ah-ha) Now is all we get (ah-ha) Nothing promised, no regrets Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Ain't no big decision (ah-ha) You know what to do (ah-ha) I can still say voulez-vous

Voulez-vous (ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha) Voulez-vous (ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha) Voulez-vous (ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha) Voulez-vous (ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha)

Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Take it now or leave it (ah-ha) Now is all we get (ah-ha) Nothing promised, no regrets Voulez-vous (ah-ha) Ain't no big decision (ah-ha) You know what to do (ah-ha) I can still say voulez-vous

[repeat and fade]

Charts

Album

Singles - USA and Canada

Singles - Music Week (United Kingdom)

Singles - Norway

External links

• abba4therecord / Webpage showing ABBA Voulez-Vous Releases worldwide [1]