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Encyclopedia > Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (ABBA album)
Greatest Hits Vol. 2
Album cover
Album by ABBA
Release October 29, 1979
Recorded October 1974-
August 1979
Genre(s) Pop
Length 58 min, 25 sec
Label Polar (Sweden)
Epic (UK)
Atlantic (US)
Producer Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus
Professional reviews
ABBA chronology
Voulez-Vous
(1979)
Greatest Hits Vol. 2
(1979)
Gracias Por La Música
(1980)

Greatest Hits Vol. 2 was a compilation album by Swedish pop group ABBA, released in 1979 to coincide with their tour of North America and Europe. Greatest Hits Vol. 2 contained the new single "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)". Look up Album in Wiktionary, the free dictionary An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... Look up Abba on Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the Swedish music group, see ABBA. Abba (or Aba) means father in Hebrew and Aramaic. ... October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... This article mainly describes pop as used in its more recent sense, as a subgenre of popular music. ... A minute is: a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... The second (symbol s) is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... EPIC might be an acronym or abbreviation for: Electronic Privacy Information Center Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing Enhanced Programmable ircII Client El Paso Intelligence Center End Poverty In California European Privatisation and Investment Corporation Sometimes it is also used to refer to Epic Games game development company. ... Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is a record label founded in 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. ... In the music industry, a record producer is responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Benny Bror Göran Andersson (born in Stockholm on December 16, 1946) is a Swedish musician and composer. ... Björn Kristian Ulvaeus (born April 25, 1945) is a Swedish musician and composer, most notable as a member of ABBA. Ulvaeus was born in Gothenburg (In Swedish: Göteborg), Sweden, but as a child he moved with his family to Västervik. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links Description: Rating stars. ... Look up Abba on Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the Swedish music group, see ABBA. Abba (or Aba) means father in Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Voulez-Vous is the seventh album by Swedish pop group ABBA, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Gracias Por La Música is a 1980 album by Swedish pop group ABBA (see 1980 in music). ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Look up Abba on Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the Swedish music group, see ABBA. Abba (or Aba) means father in Hebrew and Aramaic. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

Contents


Track listing

All songs by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, unless otherwise noted.


Side A

  1. "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" - 4:50
  2. "Knowing Me, Knowing You" (Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus) - 4:01
  3. "Take A Chance On Me" - 4:05
  4. "Money, Money, Money" - 3:05
  5. "Rock Me" - 3:05
  6. "Eagle" - 5:47
  7. "Angeleyes" - 4:20

Stig Stikkan Anderson (January 25, 1931 – September 12, 1997) was the manager of ABBA and the founder of the Polar Music record label. ...

Side B

  1. "Dancing Queen" (Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus) - 3:51
  2. "Does Your Mother Know" - 3:13
  3. "Chiquitita" - 5:24
  4. "Summer Night City" - 3:34
  5. "I Wonder (Departure)" (Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus) - 4:32
  6. "The Name Of The Game" (Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus) - 4:51
  7. "Thank You For The Music" - 3:49

Stig Stikkan Anderson (January 25, 1931 – September 12, 1997) was the manager of ABBA and the founder of the Polar Music record label. ... Stig Stikkan Anderson (January 25, 1931 – September 12, 1997) was the manager of ABBA and the founder of the Polar Music record label. ... Stig Stikkan Anderson (January 25, 1931 – September 12, 1997) was the manager of ABBA and the founder of the Polar Music record label. ...

Personnel

ABBA

Additional personnel Benny Bror Göran Andersson (born in Stockholm on December 16, 1946) is a Swedish musician and composer. ... A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played with a musical keyboard. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Agnetha Åse Fältskog (born April 5, 1950 in Jönköping, Sweden) is best known as the blonde singer in ABBA, one of the four members of the disco group ABBA, along with Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. ... Anni-Frid-Synni Frida Lyngstad, now Her Highness The Princess Reuss of Plauen (Anni-Frid Prinzessin Reuss von Plauen) (born November 15, 1945) is best known as one of the four members of the Swedish pop group ABBA. She is of German and Norwegian origin. ... Björn Kristian Ulvaeus (born April 25, 1945) is a Swedish musician and composer, most notable as a member of ABBA. Ulvaeus was born in Gothenburg (In Swedish: Göteborg), Sweden, but as a child he moved with his family to Västervik. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... An electric guitar is a type of guitar with a solid or semi-solid body that utilizes electromagnetic pickups to convert the vibration of the steel-cored strings into electrical current. ...

  • Rolf Alex - drums
  • Ola Brunkert - drums
  • Lars Carlsson - horn
  • Christer Danielson - horn
  • Andrew Eijas - horn
  • Malando Gassama - percussion
  • Rutger Gunnarsson - bass
  • Gloria Lundell - harp
  • Roger Palm - drums
  • Halldor Palsson - saxophone
  • Janne Schaffer - guitar
  • Bengt Sundberg - horn
  • Ake Sundqvist - percussion
  • Mike Watson - bass
  • Lasse Wellander - guitar
  • Gunnar Wenneborg - horn
  • Kajtek Wojciechowski - saxophone

Production

  • Producers: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
  • Engineer: Michael Tretow
  • Arranger: ???
  • Design: ???

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1980 The Billboard 200 46


 
 

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