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From '' Rock'n'Roll Party ''
Label: New Lifeshark Records – NLR 028
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 2002
Tracklist
01. Rama Lama Ding Dong
02. Under The Boardwalk
03. Stop In The Name Of Love
04. Needles And Pins
05. Locomotion
06. Daddy Cool
07. Mr. Postman
08. Tainted Love
09. Do You Love Me
10. Denis Denis
11. Shoop Shoop Song
12. Gimme Gimme Gimme
13. Radar Love
14. Shout
15. Rockaway Beach
16. Blitzkrieg Bop
Acoustic Guitar – Tim Buktu (tracks: 7, 10)
Piano – Tim Buktu (tracks: 9, 14)
Saxophone – Carlos (track: 3)
Producer, Recorded By – Tim Buktu
Notes
Recorded and produced April 2002 at Studio Manufaktur Wuppertal by Tim Buktu and the Band.
℗ New Lifeshark Records
🎵 [SONG INFO]
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" is a song by Swedish band ABBA.
It was recorded in August 1979 in order to help promote their North American and European tour of that year, and was released on ABBA's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 album as the brand new track.
History
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" was written and composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, with the lead vocal sung by Agnetha Fältskog.
Fältskog, as the narrator, weaves the image of a lonely woman who longs for a romantic relationship and views her loneliness as a forbidding darkness of night, even drawing parallels to how the happy endings of movie stars are so different from her own existence.
The melody line of the song was played on an ARP Odyssey synthesizer.
Originally, ABBA had recorded another song, "Rubber Ball Man", which was planned as a single.
It featured the typical "ABBA-arrangement" with both Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad on lead vocals and the use of classical strings.
This song was also performed by the group during rehearsals for its 1979 tour as "Under My Sun".
However, the group felt that "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!", with its disco sound, would be a better choice, and thus, "Rubber Ball Man" remained nothing more than a demo.
Reception
Cash Box called it "another exercise of sparkling euro-pop, with the slightest hint of boogie bottom to give the song an edge."
The song is notable as being one of two works in ABBA's discography (the other being Dancing Queen) that have gone on to become gay anthems.
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" was another highly successful song for ABBA.
It hit no. 1 in Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, and Switzerland, while reaching the top 3 in Austria, West Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Norway.
It also proved to be ABBA's most successful song in Japan, hitting no. 17.
Cover versions
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" was A-Teens' third single (fourth in other territories) from their first album The ABBA Generation, a collection of ABBA cover versions.
When the single was released in 1999 in Sweden, it earned a Gold certification. It also became their third top ten hit there and the band's third top 40 hit in Germany. The song peaked at no. 51 in Switzerland, no. 27 in the Netherlands, no. 20 in Mexico, and no. 22 in Argentina and Chile.
In 2001, the song was covered by the first edition of the French TV reality show Star Academy 1.
The song was credited to Olivia Ruiz, Jenifer Bartoli and Carine Haddadou, three of the contestants.
This version went straight to no. 1 in France, dislodging Star Academy's previous hit, "La Musique (Angelica)", and stayed atop for two weeks.
American singer and actress Cher covered the song on her album Dancing Queen, released on 28 September 2018.
Cher's version is the lead single on the album.
The accompanying audio video for "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" was premiered through Cher's official YouTube channel on 9 August 2018.
An extended version of the track was later released on 14 September 2018.
The song peaked at number 4 on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart.
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" was the first single released from the soundtrack for the 2008 film version of Mamma Mia! by American actress Amanda Seyfried, who plays Sophie in the film.
In the film, only the chorus is sung while the rest of the song is instrumental, much like the original stage play.
On the soundtrack, Seyfried sings the complete song as a solo performance, and also does the same in a music video to promote the movie.
The version on the soundtrack is a minute shorter than the version featured on the film's tie-in website.
In 1986, Erasure released a live version of the song as a B-side to their single Oh L'amour and then in 1987 on their US version of the album The Two Ring Circus.
Abbacadabra released a cover of the song on their album "Abbasalute" through Almighty Records in 1992. Mixes of the group's cover version were most recently included on its 2008 compilation We Love ABBA: The Mamma Mia Dance Compilation.
🔗 [LINKS]
newlifeshark.de
newlifeshark.bandcamp.com/album/1
#thesobersisters
#thedirtyfour
#gimmegimmegimme
#alternativerock
#abbacover
From '' Rock'n'Roll Party ''
Label: New Lifeshark Records – NLR 028
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 2002
Tracklist
01. Rama Lama Ding Dong
02. Under The Boardwalk
03. Stop In The Name Of Love
04. Needles And Pins
05. Locomotion
06. Daddy Cool
07. Mr. Postman
08. Tainted Love
09. Do You Love Me
10. Denis Denis
11. Shoop Shoop Song
12. Gimme Gimme Gimme
13. Radar Love
14. Shout
15. Rockaway Beach
16. Blitzkrieg Bop
Acoustic Guitar – Tim Buktu (tracks: 7, 10)
Piano – Tim Buktu (tracks: 9, 14)
Saxophone – Carlos (track: 3)
Producer, Recorded By – Tim Buktu
Notes
Recorded and produced April 2002 at Studio Manufaktur Wuppertal by Tim Buktu and the Band.
℗ New Lifeshark Records
🎵 [SONG INFO]
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" is a song by Swedish band ABBA.
It was recorded in August 1979 in order to help promote their North American and European tour of that year, and was released on ABBA's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 album as the brand new track.
History
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" was written and composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, with the lead vocal sung by Agnetha Fältskog.
Fältskog, as the narrator, weaves the image of a lonely woman who longs for a romantic relationship and views her loneliness as a forbidding darkness of night, even drawing parallels to how the happy endings of movie stars are so different from her own existence.
The melody line of the song was played on an ARP Odyssey synthesizer.
Originally, ABBA had recorded another song, "Rubber Ball Man", which was planned as a single.
It featured the typical "ABBA-arrangement" with both Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad on lead vocals and the use of classical strings.
This song was also performed by the group during rehearsals for its 1979 tour as "Under My Sun".
However, the group felt that "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!", with its disco sound, would be a better choice, and thus, "Rubber Ball Man" remained nothing more than a demo.
Reception
Cash Box called it "another exercise of sparkling euro-pop, with the slightest hint of boogie bottom to give the song an edge."
The song is notable as being one of two works in ABBA's discography (the other being Dancing Queen) that have gone on to become gay anthems.
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" was another highly successful song for ABBA.
It hit no. 1 in Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, and Switzerland, while reaching the top 3 in Austria, West Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Norway.
It also proved to be ABBA's most successful song in Japan, hitting no. 17.
Cover versions
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" was A-Teens' third single (fourth in other territories) from their first album The ABBA Generation, a collection of ABBA cover versions.
When the single was released in 1999 in Sweden, it earned a Gold certification. It also became their third top ten hit there and the band's third top 40 hit in Germany. The song peaked at no. 51 in Switzerland, no. 27 in the Netherlands, no. 20 in Mexico, and no. 22 in Argentina and Chile.
In 2001, the song was covered by the first edition of the French TV reality show Star Academy 1.
The song was credited to Olivia Ruiz, Jenifer Bartoli and Carine Haddadou, three of the contestants.
This version went straight to no. 1 in France, dislodging Star Academy's previous hit, "La Musique (Angelica)", and stayed atop for two weeks.
American singer and actress Cher covered the song on her album Dancing Queen, released on 28 September 2018.
Cher's version is the lead single on the album.
The accompanying audio video for "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" was premiered through Cher's official YouTube channel on 9 August 2018.
An extended version of the track was later released on 14 September 2018.
The song peaked at number 4 on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart.
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" was the first single released from the soundtrack for the 2008 film version of Mamma Mia! by American actress Amanda Seyfried, who plays Sophie in the film.
In the film, only the chorus is sung while the rest of the song is instrumental, much like the original stage play.
On the soundtrack, Seyfried sings the complete song as a solo performance, and also does the same in a music video to promote the movie.
The version on the soundtrack is a minute shorter than the version featured on the film's tie-in website.
In 1986, Erasure released a live version of the song as a B-side to their single Oh L'amour and then in 1987 on their US version of the album The Two Ring Circus.
Abbacadabra released a cover of the song on their album "Abbasalute" through Almighty Records in 1992. Mixes of the group's cover version were most recently included on its 2008 compilation We Love ABBA: The Mamma Mia Dance Compilation.
🔗 [LINKS]
newlifeshark.de
newlifeshark.bandcamp.com/album/1
#thesobersisters
#thedirtyfour
#gimmegimmegimme
#alternativerock
#abbacover
