They performed it many times but it was released in Sweden in January 1979.
Abba sang it first in English, then spanish. Menudo sang it after them in spanish.
The Spanish version makes this idiom a bit more clear, "You were so self-assured when I met you; but now you've broken a wing" - the whole song has a bit of word play: a chick being a little bird; and chiquitita being Spanish for a young girl. So the broken wing, broken feather analogy is basically saying, "You used to be able to soar/fly because you were sure of yourself; but now you are wounded, unsure - you have a broken wing/feather and can't fly/soar like you used to".
"Chiquitita" was first released as a single in the UK and Europe in January 1979. Abba had performed the song on January 9 at "Music for Unicef" benefit concert for world hunger in New York. "Chiquitita" was one of Abba's biggest hits around the world, partly on the strength of the Spanish version: it reached number 1 in Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Latin America and elsewhere. Inexplicably, Atlantic Records did not release the single in North America until November, ten months after the Unicef concert and album, and it reached only #29 in the US and #17 in Canada. Unicef still gets 50 per cent of the royalties from the song, reportedly almost $3 million.
ABBA donated one half of the proceeds to Chiquitita to charity, which was one of the group's biggest hits.
Chiquitita - album - was created in 1979.
Chiquitita was created on 1979-01-16.
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Chiquitita (by Abba)
Do you mean "Chiquitita"? If so, it means "little girl" in Spanish.
because they didn't sing the full song in the movie
They performed it many times but it was released in Sweden in January 1979.
Abba sang it first in English, then spanish. Menudo sang it after them in spanish.
The Spanish version makes this idiom a bit more clear, "You were so self-assured when I met you; but now you've broken a wing" - the whole song has a bit of word play: a chick being a little bird; and chiquitita being Spanish for a young girl. So the broken wing, broken feather analogy is basically saying, "You used to be able to soar/fly because you were sure of yourself; but now you are wounded, unsure - you have a broken wing/feather and can't fly/soar like you used to".
"Chiquitita" was first released as a single in the UK and Europe in January 1979. Abba had performed the song on January 9 at "Music for Unicef" benefit concert for world hunger in New York. "Chiquitita" was one of Abba's biggest hits around the world, partly on the strength of the Spanish version: it reached number 1 in Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Latin America and elsewhere. Inexplicably, Atlantic Records did not release the single in North America until November, ten months after the Unicef concert and album, and it reached only #29 in the US and #17 in Canada. Unicef still gets 50 per cent of the royalties from the song, reportedly almost $3 million.
ABBA donated one half of the proceeds to Chiquitita to charity, which was one of the group's biggest hits.
"Chiquita" is the diminutive form of the word for "girl" in Spanish, "chica". Literally this means "little girl" or "dear girl", but probably would be closer to "honey" or "babe" in English.