ABBA-Chess - One Night In Bangkok 

I always imagine Agnetha and Frida's voices in the chorus.

Check out Gemini, Björn and Benny made songs for them. Ghost Town is a good one! Its the guy from Gemini who does the singing in One night in Bangkok, Anders Glenmark

Maybe they needed more original music. Without the cute girl with pink hair, no music.

@@australien192 Murray Head didn't write the song. The guys from ABBA did.

Do you see ABBA in this song at all? So sad.

Well, at least one of them. But he's got some stiff competition with Jeff Lynne, Burt Bacharach, Gamble & Huff, Mike Stoller, Bob Gaudio, certainly Barry Gibb, Quincy Jones, MJ, so many Motown writing teams, Carol King, and probably the entire Brill Building going way back to Cole Porter. How many have I left out ? ...

ABBA

And Bjorn is once again the great lyricist of Benny’s songs.

@@JES96 With help from Tim Rice.

@@warrenrandall6936 not always - only in Chess with his help

and "the queens we use would *not* excite you"

My faorite line in the song :)

Two of them wrote on it but Anders Glenmark sang the choruses and harmonies.

Benny y Bjorn la compusieron

They already are

@@lounolastname4477 AS THEY SHOULD

They are already since 2010.

They already are. Actually they are the first R&R inductees from a country where English is NOT an official or de facto language.

Hall of Fame is a load of nonsense anyway

They didn't. This is the studio version which everyone is just miming to. They are not on the original recording in any way. This is pretty lame honestly.

@@JMurdochNZ oh what a bummer, I was so happy. This is one of my favorite show tunes and ABBA is one of my favorite groups. Oh well, thanks for the info

They didn't. Two of them helped write it but Anders Glenmark sang the choruses and harmonies.

ABSOLUTELY!! Her charm, her magnetism is dazzling ✨💗❤️

Preciosa Frida

That's the truth!

Love her!

Frida started life as a Norwegian SS-brat -- Her father was one of the German occupiers and her Norwegian Mother was forced to procreate with him -- Frida ultimately moved to Sweden to escape the scorn that was unfairly assigned to her -- She did eventually meet her Father after she was both an adult and famous -- I was a devout Abba fan in the 1970's and Frida was my favorite member -- She voiced my favorite Abba song, which is titled "Gonna Sing You My Lovesong"

Well, you could ask Norwegian artist Finn Kalvik about that. Internationally, he is known for the second "nill points" in the Eurovision Song Contest, even though his record at the time by far was an Abba-production. It is called "Kom ut, kom fram". Large parts of it was also done with English lyrics but not released. It is on YT somewhere. Finn has told he "escaped" from the ESC fiasco to Benny and Frida, where he had his own room .

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yac7g4sZq6Q.htmlsi=D-QMg7Msf9lKdWw- There you go, the English version!😀

There is also the follow up album "Natt og dag" from 1981, pretty much same production as the previous album the year before. Note on the English version: "Here in my heart" is the ESC entry

There is also the follow up album "Natt og dag" from 1981, pretty much same production as the previous album the year before. Note on the English version: "Here in my heart" is the ESC entry, with English lyrics by Ralph McTell

All 4 were there?

Ian Anderson on the flute, perhaps?

me too, is something dark in the music, I dont know, its hard to understand

Yeah man. Me too.

Look up on Wikipedia it give you some hints,about what the lyrics it says and compare the city's night life with a chess game. It hard to me to explain since English isn't my native language. By the way TBBT got me in to looking for more info about the song and lyrics but even reading the lyrics I didn't get much until I went to Wikipedia,anyway have a great day.

Me too, i have to go to Bangkok and go to muay thai fight and then go to redlight district

Exactly. Quality finds Quality. 💎

I don't think they look much alike, personally...

Had this song on 7" vinyl!!! Love Murray's delivery (and cool as f..k in that suit!!)

So it’s only 3 members of ABBA in this clip?

Ah, Tim Rice lyrics!

Well, Tim didn't write this song alone. Lyricist(s): Tim Rice and Björn Ulvaeus Composer(s): Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus

Many don’t know that Whitney Houston and her mom Cissy covered a song from this show as a duet. It’s the last song on Whitney’s debut album.

@@RLucas3000 Yes - and they did a dreadful job compared to the original

​@@tigershootit's like the difference between Brooks & Dunn and Asleep At The Wheel performing Boot Scootin' Boogie; as Ray Benson said: "This is what it's supposed to sound like."

All the songs from the musical Chess were composed by Björn and Benny from ABBA. Tim Rice wrote the lyrics with some lyrics by Björn. However, ABB_ didn’t sing any backing vocals. They were lip syncing here just for promotion.

ABBA is NOT singing along. murray is lip syncing to the album cut and so are they. the background voices are the original singers.

Frida's secret for looking fabolous is her lebensborn creme...

The guys wrote the music for them

They were planning to release an album around 1982, but it was canceled and only Under Attack, The Day Before You Came and Cassandra were released. It is known that Just Like That was one of the songs recorded for that particular album.

@@renegadesoul8701'You Owe Me One' also came out too, but was just never given pride of place on any remaster for the first decade of them. Even 'I Am The City' sneaked out in 1993. 'Just Like That' can only be taken in the forms it turns up on RU-vid.

Tell yourself it IS a massive ABBA hit. I complete this "Opus 10" album with this & those other CHESS killers, making a 10 track album, yay, and all those songs fit really well into where ABBA were musically and lyrically at the time. Also both those Gemini ABBA albums are really ABBA albums sung by another duo who do them proud, if you delete the appalling 'Wild About That Girl' on the 2nd one and substitute CHESS's 'The Arbiter' for it. And then there's adding 'When I Close My Eyes' to the 1st Gemini one as they didn't!

I'm not sure I agree. The days had long gone that Bjorn would be front of house like that (except tin the odd, very obscure album track like 'Two For the Price of One'). But I can't see the girls doing the verses either.

Good for her Agnetha is not a backup singer.

@@storyboarddave5860 Niether is Frida?

@@CraigLW 1:04 looks like Frida.

@@storyboarddave5860 That's not what I meant, but you knew that already. She's also miming for effect. It's a promotion. There's nothing wrong with ANY of them singing back up. I'd have liked to have seen all of them involved with Chess

@@CraigLW Agnetha is not in Video or singing or pretending to sing! so its not ABBA its BBA!

Opus 10 was a working title that was started up by a journalist not ABBA, """ June 1981 a journalist from Swedish newspaper Expressen visited and interviewed ABBA in the studio, while they were recording what would become The Visitors album, released in November 1981. The subsequent published story was titled "Now ABBA Are Recording Their Tenth Album". In the article, he wrote "will Opus 10 now beat them all?", simply using the classical term "opus" to refer to what he calculated was ABBA's tenth album, counting the previous seven studio albums, plus two Greatest Hits volumes (released 1975 and 1979), but disregarding the Spanish language Gracias Por La Música (1980). Rumours spread through ABBA fan circles that Opus 10 was the working title for The Visitors album, and an instrumental demo recording, actually titled Nationalsång (and later to become Anthem in the Andersson/Rice/Ulvaeus musical Chess[1984]), recorded during The Visitors sessions and subsequently leaked on bootleg cassettes, was rumoured to be the title track. Years later the rumour morphed into Opus 10 being the title of ABBA's provisional follow up to The Visitors, for which six tracks were recorded in 1982 before ABBA abandoned the album, released the compilation The Singles - The First Ten Years, the singles The Day Before You Came and Under Attack, then took what they said was "a break" which became permanent. The rumour became so widespread that it was included in many ABBA books, even in Agnetha's authorised bio As I Am.

@@kiwi-to1xk Wow, how did you find this out?! Mind you, I'd not be at all surprised if ABBA were to do it, they've always been absurdly lazy and uncreative when it comes to naming the parent album (always after a song on it) or even worse, calling it "ABBA: ABBA" (yeah, we know your names, guys, it's there already!) or an album "The Album" (yeah, we know what it is guys, we're not stupid, it's got songs on it and it plays in a player!). With "Voyage", they actually broke the norm. Already, I notice a mistake, they had 8 albums recorded before the count-up (you're forgetting "Ring Ring", it doesn't matter most places didn't get it till a 1990s re-release following the ABBA wake-up job with "ABBA: Gold" compilation, it's STILL a proper album, and it STILL counts. In fact, the compilations shouldn't be counted at all, but if you include all the 70s non-album tracks ABBA made (and RU-vid had to help with this as half a dozen never released properly)and slot it in chronologically as the last 70s album, THIS becomes the 7th, which indeed leads us to "Opus 10",a rather better name for an album that at least isn't to be named after a song. In fact he should have donated it to them, it'd be better than what they'd come up with for it! To answer his question though: "will 'Opus 10' beat them all', the answer is surely YES! Those 6 songs were killers, and admittedly the only way I could complete the album was to add those 4 CHESS songs from it, which works really well, not least as all, especially 'Nobody's Side' has their relationships-at-war/truths about love has their stamp all over it, and could so imagine Frida singing it, while 'Heaven Help My Heart' was recorded by Agnetha oddly, of course under another title and it was just a demo, not the finished product which is much better written. Adding the final massive duet from CHESS and 'One Night In Bangkok' in the belief Bjorn singing it, which isn't actually any odder a fit on an ABBA album than the likes of 'Two For The Price Of One' and 'Man In The Middle' ever were. Those songs were there for the taking and damned if I'm gonna leave them on a theatre soundtrack when I can complete this album with them-and they clearly are the best fit. Incidentally the two Gemini albums that followed (1985/1987) I count as ABBA product too, just sung by different people, but in their style and most of those songs are B&B productions and simply represent the next step where ABBA would have gone. If ever a group bowed at the top when they really shouldn't have it was ABBA!!

@@kyachdistent1301 the information is clearly on the internet regarding opus 10 not being a title as well as Bjorn in a video interview during the voyage period with benny agreeing said there was no working title for the follow up to "The Visitors" they hadn't got to that point as all the songs hadn't been written when they canned the project nor was it to be called opus 10 and they laughed at such a idea.as for being lazy for album titles,you will find 100% of artists/groups naming their albums after a song from that album and using their name as a title.."The Album" title was used to coincide with "The Movie" title at the time of release.. a powerful way to suggest that the work are somehow one and the same,and connected. Just like the album "Voyage" is also connected to the "Voyage Show" with only 2 songs written for that show. They are connected.

That's Murray Head in this video...

This was after the falling out from the love triangle. Why anyone would pick Frida over Agnetha is anyone's guess.

She or the guys are dancing out of sync

I know. i couldn't take my eyes off her the whole time.

@@darknessviking they’re not out of sync. They’re dancing to the offbeat. Very good choreography

I know him so well - also a good song from this musical written by Benny and Bjorn

Still are!

No, it is NOT written by ABBA! 😝

@@skummisrocker written by Andersson & Ulvaeus from ABBA and Tim Rice

It’s from a German TV show. I’m pretty certain that it is „Wetten dass…“. The biggest show where stars like Michael Jackson and Phil Collins performed in the show block.

I don't know why it doesn't get staged more often. I saw an amateur production probably 30 years ago which was fantastic. Other than that, it's never been done locally.

Frida is seen in this video, but Agnetha is not.

NoPCsHere She was just lip syncing with her former bandmates to promote the song from their musical.

Thank you. I had to do a little timeline because this isn't ABBA, and there's no such thing as ABB or BBA. It's all or nothing.

@@JF-sh2sm Oh is that right? I had no idea that's what it was about.

Guess that's why it sounds like Ghost Town by Gemini xk

Ah, is that the name of the other female singer? Cos it definitely isn't Agnetha is it !!! I actually thought for a moment when I first saw her that it was Alison Moyet

​@@dominiccrimmings6925 Agnetha and Frida (and Benny and Bjorn!) don't sing on the Chess Original London Recording, but Karin Glenmark does lots of the backing vocals. Obviously they are all miming here. Karin's brother Anders Glenmark also sings backing on the album, and in fact is the singer of the chorus in 'One Night In Bangkok.'

there's also Annie Lennox in the chorus of this song even she's not in this video

@@francescocelso173 Are you sure? I can't find anything on the internet about this

@@francescocelso173 I think you'll find you are mistaken there. Sung vocals on the track are Anders & Karin Glenmark(Gemini) Karin is seen in this video with ABBA. members. Only other backing vocalist listed on album credits is Liza Ohrman.

Porque será que Agnetha não estava nesse musical ?

Likewise!

Это промоушен, Бенни, Бьорн и Фрида лишь рот открывают.

@@Snowman13230 но Бенни и Бьорн - это авторы песни и всего мюзикла Шахматы.

@@80spolishdiva24 ну это само собой

Murray Head.

It‘s Andersson‘s Song

Какая встреча, Женя😂😂😂😂😂

@@user-gy5yj5vv5u ооо, Ксю, рада видеть )))

@@1ghenny взаимно😊