ABBA's Musical Master - Benny's Greatest Compositions | 77th Birthday 

I think it might be fair to say that Benny has had the most successful post-ABBA career. The BAO is incredible and absolutely smashes the charts in Sweden.

Congratulations to Benny Anderson, the Musical Mastermind behind ABBA. Thank you for the music. 👏👏👏

Congratulations to Benny . World class musical master creator

Ican't think of life without Benny. It's like life without the great classical composers. My life is so much richer because of his music.

An absolute genius. The diversity of Benny’s compositions is unparalleled. If I was only allowed to listen to one composer for the rest of my life it would be Benny and I say that without even a hint of hesitation - his music has been the soundtrack of my life and has inspired me endlessly! Not only should he be considered a National Treasure, he is an International Treasure!

A true effortless maestro of melody and arrangement. Music is simply his Life - we are very fortunate that he has shared so many superb compositions with us. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Benny ~ Many Happy Returns 🎉❤

Greig, Sibelius, Smetana, Andersson...Happy Birthday Benny. Many Happy Returns to a great Northern composer.

Happy Birthday Benny !....my fav keyboard wizard, thank you for all the music. Love all his music !

Thank you for the music Benny. Happy birthday to you. Your melodies are the theme to my life. You have a God given gift which you use every day of your life. 🎼🎼💕

Wishing Benny a happy and healthy birthday. His music has been with me in both happy and sad times. Sending my heart felt thanks and am looking forward to years of amazing music to come. ❤

Alles erdenklich Gute zum Geburtstag Benny und noch ein freundliches langes Leben für dich und zur Freude deiner Fans

I adore "when the waves roll out to sea"....one of the most underappreciated compositions of his....its hauntingly beautiful. I wish it had been recorded professionally...what a wasted opportunity. Happy birthday benny,you gave us the best years of our lives...Ireland 🇮🇪

A very happy birthday to Benny the musical genius in ABBA.

Benny is a talentfull musician, has style and humor.

Benny happy 77th birthday thank you for your continued enjoyment of music Australia and the fans of Australia a big happy birthday god bless you and thank you for the music

Einen lieben Geburtstagsgruss aus Schleswig-Holstein ❤❤. Benny ist eine Ikone mit vielen Facetten. Genie ist die richtige Bezeichnung. ❤❤

JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE BENNY. VOUS ETES UN GRAND MUSICIEN.

The versatility and range of musical compositions of Benny are pure genius there would be no human being in this world ,now or before, that could come close to his talent and creativity he along with Bjorn were the wizzards weaving magic in ABBA.And as his progression through life evolved ,ABBA is but a chapter in the life of Benny Anderson ,we are so fortunate to have him in our lives and hearts. HAPPY BIRTHDAY🎉❤ BENNY ANDERSON.

its really hard to pick out a favourite. theres so many brilliant songs. lts great, that benny found his way to musical and classic music after abba. l really love chess. and anthem is one of my absolute highlights. l always have to fight tears when l listen to it. its just so emotional, especially the josh grobham version. thank you for the music, benny andersson. and a fine pre-christmas time to everyone here.

A fantastic Composer and musical genius ❤He is also a true inspiration and an amazing artist 🫶 I’ve met him on several occasions and he is a genuine honest loving man a true gentleman so here’s to many more years of Benny. Andersson ❤

Feliz cumpleaños 🎉a un gran genio de la música. Un don y regalo que Dios le concedió y ha compartido a través de su musica. El más grande reconocimiento se lo han dado sus fans. Siempre estaremos ageadecidos por tú música, Benny. Gracias por alegrar y acompañar nuestra vida con tú música. Dios te siga bendiciendo con mucha salud! ❤🙏. Saludos desde México 🇲🇽

Happy birthday Benny you have aged well and I cannot begin to express the joys your music brings me

I wouldn't know where to begin with a favourite composition Benny had made so many and in so many styles. I saw BAO in London and since then have loved listening to them, I got some Hep Stars and realised I had heard some of those songs years ago on the radio, I like those a lot as well, His music is surely up there with the greatest composers and will be remembered to the end of our time.

HAPPY BIRHSDAY DEAR GREAT BENNY, ❤️ 🕯 ‼️ Ich bin seit dem Teenager alter der GRÖßTE 🅰️🅱️🅱️🅰️ FAN, bin nun 61 Jahre alt habe das Comeback der vier Schweden noch erleben dürfte !!! GOOOD LUCK DEAR BEAUTIFUL SONGWRITER AND GREAT WORK !!! 👍👍👏👏 THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR THE MUSIC !!! 🤗 GOD BLESS YOU !!! 🙏🙏 🙏🙏

Benny Andersson is the Mozart of pop music!

Happy Birthday Benny! Your music is the best!❤❤

Celebrations to this wonderful music composer, happy birthday to you, Benny

I think the words fail to express what we feel we listen to the maestro's music 😃

Thank you so much BB for bringing all this together. It’s a ”Real Treasure” chest 🙌 ❤

J'adore toutes les musiques de Bennny tout particulierement l'album de Kristina , je retrouve le talent de Bjorn et Benny . Joyeux anniversaire Benny ❤❤ et qu'on puisse ecouter d'autres excellentes musiques dans un proche avenir . Merci pour votre musique

The way you describes albums and songs make me search for them into youtube and start to listen carefully. I want feel what you describes about them!!!

Happy Birthday Benny!!!!❤❤❤❤ -thank you for your music !!!

Benny is an excellent composer, I admire his music very much.

Бенни национальное достояние Швеции , её гордость и будущее поколений! ❤

Benny is a musical genius without a doubt. In terms of versatility I think that still schwedish melancholy is the connection. by now the world is acknowledging that ABBA had a happy sad sound, so sadness or melancholy was always a part of his compositions, or mostly, so i still think there is a connection in his apprach to most of the melodies he did. Master of comforting sadness of comforting melancholy. Not as dark as Russian music, not as bright as Italian so typcally Swedish.. imo.... a special combination you might find only in the the music of Grieg. Benny for me is like a modern Grieg.

I think he is one of the outstanding composers. Congratulations on your Birthday. I like the music for ABBA. Always have the wonderful magic sense of tender love. Greetings from Russia!❤❤❤

Happy Birthday to the Maestro and thank you for the music, a gift which just keeps on giving!!!🎉🎶🎵🎼 The opening music to "Voyage" is so atmospheric and fits the whole vibe of the show perfectly, in my opinion!!!❤ Thank you for this fascinating perspective into Benny's incredible musical journey, BB!

Happy Birthday, Benny 🎉🎁🎂

Benny being acknowledged with Bjorn as one of the most prolific songwriting teams is well overdue. I’m now getting into Benny’s catalogue & enjoying them, the classical compositions are up there with the best. Here in Australia, it was great to see Benny’s Piano album in the top 20. Kristina Live In Carnegie Hall with English versions of the musicals songs is one of my favourites. Great songs, shame it hasn’t had the same success worldwide. Yes Benny is indeed a master, great video BB…Thank you..

🎉One great artist in the music scene, the legend 👑 of ABBA 👑 The Legends 👑 Happy 🎉 Birthday 🎂 maestro 🎼 Benny Anderson 👑🎉 Congratifuls 🎊♥️♥️♥️ ♥️♥️♥️Thanks you Bobby ♥️♥️♥️

Wonderful overview. For me, some other highlights include "Bonder på havet" from KFD (the piano melody from 00:48 - 01:36 feels to me like another which could be developed further into another piece of music just as Kyssen became ISHFIY), "Chess" from its namesake musical (especially the "på Svenska" recording), Trolksa, P.S., Godnattvisa, Brudmarsch... such moving pieces of music. Nobody does it like Benny!

Grattis Benny ! Du är en absolut legend !

Such a great video as usual, Happy Birthday, Benny. My favorite pieces are too many to mention.

Benny , I believe is and was the driving force of the super group A B B A .

I always find it strange when other fans can't connect with Benny's pre and post ABBA work. The same with his three colleges to be honest but, I do get how the magic errupts when the four come together. However, without the pre~ABBA work, ABBA itself may never have happened and without the Post~ABBA work, its hard to imagine the foursome coming together again for Voyage. Anyone who's never bothered to listen to any of the work either side of ABBA's 10 years is missing out on some amazing pieces of music. I really can't list all the outside ABBA work that I love listening to but, with much of Benny's work, once you learn to disguard the idea of genres, its easy to connect with the melodies be then the rock 'n' roll style of the Hep Stars, of the folk and dansband strains of BAO. The man is simply a genius and I would personallly highly recomend Storm approachings fantastic "Andersson & Ulvaeus chronology" videos to see how much variation Benny has covered since his early days.

Thank u 4 all ur wonderful videos that always make my day. I wish u a happy Christmas with ur beloved ones. CU !

Отличная работа брат. Благодарю за видео. Мне нравится гериальная музыка Бенни, особенно в народном стиле.

Well, it is hard to choose favorite pieces written by Benny, they are all magnificent! But well, I would choose: "Livet går sin gång", "På bröllop", "My Love, My Life", "I Let The Music Speak", "The Day Before You Came", "Anthem", "Klinga mina klockor", "Machopolska", "Stjuls", "Tröstevisa", "Sorgmarsch", "Flickornas rum", "Aldrig", "Midnattsdans"... and many many more... Thank you Benny for such beautiful music and happy birthday! Also thank you Bobby's Brother for your videos!

Thank you Benny for being so generous and sharing so much with us. As you mentioned sometime ago, your inspiration came while waiting for a certain dragon whistling a tune at a certain cave... it seems this longtime friendship has payed off lol. Hope you still visit the dragon, we'll love hearing ever more from you.

Happy birthday Benny!

So many great compositions to choose.... but one of mij favorites is 'Song from the second floor' (Sång från andra våningen) it always has had a deep emotional impact on me...(the whole soundtrack from the movie 'Songs from the second floor' is fantastic).

Two absolute skandinavian music genius: Benny Andersson and Toumas Holopainen from Nightwish! 🥰 HBD Benny!

All the best, Benny! You have always been my idol.

Happy Birthday Benny,may you have many more year to celebrate....

Thank you for the music Benny

Both Benny & Bjorn never needed gimmicks in their music. Both very exceptional musicians.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BENNY! xoxo

A great composer. It's that simple. Thanks BB for giving me some new listening diversions for the festive season!

Thank you so much for making this awesome video of this amazing composer and musician. I love his work so much and it would be impossible to choose just a few, but I will mention one; The Day Before You Came. Both the album version, and the piano version. The piano version absolutely high lights the beauty of the melody, the melancholy feeling, the story telling even with no words at all. To me, that song has something almost magical. But then again, that`s what Abba is; pure musical magic at it`s purest. Perfection. And I absolutely love how versatile he is. Happy birthday, Benny. And thank you again, BB.

Benny has influenced my whole life, and without that I wouldn't have become a musician and composer, wrecking my career as an economy student. And of course I thought of Benny when I really spent "One Night in Bangkok"! 😉

Such a versatile musician. There are few that can compare to Benny. His compositions on Cirkeln are hauntingly beautiful. Stockholm By Night is a favourite of mine I also love Innan Gryningen. Barbara Dickson recorded a beautiful English version of that song which is The Silence of the Dawn

👍👍 thanks!

God Bless ABBA.

I would pick "Arrival," one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. It's both somber and uplifting, which is a really rare thing to accomplish in a piece of music. He's so tremendously talented as are the others. I am so happy that I discovered ABBA at their peak (imagine hearing "Fernando" for the first time on the radio and falling in love with the group!) and even LUCKIER to have gotten to see them live in concert! You have a most remarkable, informative and wonderful RU-vid channel!

The composition I particularly love are "Stockholm by night" and "Sång Från Andra Våningen" ❤❤❤

Fabulous just Fabulous xxx

Ma favest s'Lottis Schottis" (tears of joy in my eyes)/'Anthem"(Thommy Yohanson's cover version-Chills/"Fait accompli"(live performamance from a tv show with Tommy Korberg-glorious /CHESS intrumental- i sooth ,.... but i gotta dig for more.I have to listen to your suggested titles.there's a lot of stuff i would dig out for sure.

0:38!lol!Seems Frida's very early perm attempts "infected" Benny's hairdo.sorry Not good at all.But I'ld certainly go for that lil boy holding and proudly showing out his accordion !''(2:04)"'Show Them!"...as his proud mother told him to do after people's disbelief about her self taught boy's incredible talent .I love you Benny and THANK YOU for Everything,you've 'warmed' my childhood and still do while i'm growing old.

"I gott bevar" means "In good keeping" correctly translated. (I'm swedish)

Benny plays his ABBA songs on his album "Piano", but there are still many beautiful songs on it, which makes me wonder why Björn cannot convert one of these songs into ABBA songs, so the world is turned upside down. "Arrival" was also made into a beautiful song in "Time" sung by Frida and B.A Robertson, wouldn't that be nice for the fans?

I'll have to get Benny's Albums 😊

I think Benny is one of the greatest composers of all time (and that Bjorn is one of the greatest lyrists). Sometimes I think because Abba is "pop" and it so easily grabs you, the complexities and greatness of the music and the lyrics are missed or overlooked. But I think time will place them up with Mozart, Tchaikovsky and other greats. Oh....almost forgot: Happy Birthday to Benny...

I adore the music featured in the Roy Andersson films, such as Song from the Second Floor and Silent Song (I think. The choral scene on the bus) Genius.

🥰😍🤩😘😇

My favorite is En skrift i snon, my favorite album is November 1989.

I can listen to the song "Chess" forever! But there's a LOT of good stuff from his hand - the scandinavian Mozart!

How is it that this is the first time I've heard about the "Help Wanted" musical? Anything to say about this music? I need to go hunt for clips of this here on RU-vid ASAP!

Du måste finnas, in both senses

Living in England it seems no recordings of the Hep Stars are available. Are any of the albums you mentioned available on cd anywhere.?

A genius,stand next to Brian Wilson or Paul Mc Cartney...unfortunately,I'm afraid Benny and Bjorn will never reach this place they deserved in the eyes of the vast majority of pop-rock critics...(who gave voyage 5 or even 4 stars ? The fact is they don't understand what's songwriting,how this guy and his friend are gifted...are masters) they're forever in the hearts of the fans...and that's the true Victory...but somehow...it's a shame...

it would had been even nicer if you had added snippets of the music you talked about....

First?

Isn't Benny's surname pronounced with "sh"? 🙂