ABBA - Summer Night City (Official Music Video) 

IKR This is my fave ABBA song

Because Atlantic, ABBA's record company the US, wanted to have an album to go along with the single. Atlantic loved the single and sent a telegram to Stockholm, saying: "Everyone here thinks it will be a number one!". But ABBA could not guarantee an album before Christmas and so Atlantic didn't release the single. Atlantic also messed up "Chiquitita". ABBA did the Concert for Unicef in New York which got worldwide promotion - and Atlantic released the single five months later. When "Does Your Mother Know" was released in the States in May 1979, it had been a year since "Take A Chance On Me", a lifetime in pop music then.

​@@oliverwittofficial4997Definitivamente no supieron manejar la carrera de ABBA y es lamentable por que tienen canciones que pudieron ser número 1 en E.U , el mal manejo por parte de su representante hizo que no traspassran fronteras a nivel mundial, sin embargo hoy 2024 podemos seguir disfrutando de este legado gracias a las redes sociales. ABBA 💖 💖🌷🌷🙏🙏

Agree , Im from Brazil and had many records , DVDs and other things from ABBA but I only learned about this song some eight or ten years Ago in RU-vid

Dragan Milenkovic Agreed 100%.

I still own the original vinyl single and it always was one of my favourite ones.But it never became a huge hit it used have deserved to be.Wonder why...Might be because of the Bee Gees supremacy that year?

Interesting theory. That might actually be the reason. Such a shame, either way. And yes, I envy that vinyl single of yours. Very much.

Hm, I was a huge ABBA fan in those days and didn´t like this song as much as most of the others. Something´s missing here, the refrain is okay but the verse is not loaded with enough music, if you know what I mean. It sounds pale and not as superior as it should compared to the other achievements ABBA made. Everybody who went disco without really having a foot in that door, somehow failed. Barbra Streisand tried it more than once and her her vocal qualitites are really low - even on "No more tears" she is vocally dominated by Donna Summer.

very strong chorus though....at least when it first kicks, but then it fades a bit. ABBA was probably a bit too classy to do basic disco songs. (Im a big BeeGees fan btw)

Agree. Very difficult to do better.

Completely agree. Musical genius. And when I think at the beginning, some said it was idiotic songs........

@@HarryGhall their heart is not open, that's what I think, I often got in such situations when people say it's shitty but they don't Hear the complexity! Or the genius..

…and then the subtle/complex/poetic lyrics in 2nd language. Real genius.

@@LaPtiteAnglaise this was Bjorn

I agree with every word you said.

I never get tyred of listening to ABBA.

even better than ABBA's newest 0ne

I agree. I am a 12 year old and I listen to abba. It is just better than music from nowadays.

Yes only 17 million

I'm 53 mate! Me growing up listening to Abba caused me to believe that the Swedish French, and Italians and others, were similar, distinct from the British & Americans? The tune apart from the singing is very similar to the Euro/ Mediterranean disco scene from the 70's & 80's

​@Lauren-jh1wsBjorn was as attractive as a bag of spanners

Yet this is a song they were not happy when released in Sept 1978. Shows how incredibly demanding Benny and Bjorn were.... it is one of the gems of the Disco era. It is an ode to Stockholm.

My fave rave from ABBA

Too right.

Because this ISN’T JUST DISCO! This is MUSIC!

Bee Gees and Boney M weren't very important in my country. We had Abba.

@@rickykingi5191 ABBA

Me also

Cos they are so talented 🤗

xioracky AND SWEDISH! We R just Pure talent!

ًshut up,were alll the same

Perfectly crafted and perfectly performed

@@kebabman1968 not anymore Soon to be a pure 3rd world sh ith9le

Yes, we have true👍

You have true

Nice you gave to you the opportunity to listen to them, I listen their music since I was 11 and I used to be bullyied by my classmates about it, even people from my family used to make comments like: Don't you listen to "regueaton"? which has been the "coolest" music gender in Colombia for years, but I just never cared and never will.

Like what you like - I am an overgrown emo kid in my musical taste, stuff like FOB, Paramore and MCR among others, but I love ABBA too. They knew how to make music that appeals to all emotions.

Those were the days when the way you were born didn't matter. Four "normal" looking young people without immaculate teeth, plastic surgery faces or BBL's. Just good make-up and hair, nice clothes and that was it. At 11, I thought both of the guys were INCREDIBLY ugly and unattractive...but it didn't matter, because it was about the MUSIC. Thinking about that, I realize that the whole 24/7 MTV video's, starting somewhere in the 80s, probably developed, from the "need" to have TV performances in music charts, like Top of the Pops, in Holland TOPPOP andsoforth. I was born and raised in Amsterdamned, Holland in '63. When the show Toppop came on, and they couldn't get a band to perform "live", there was either a video (thinking of Bohemian Rhapsody and the likes), or Penny de Jager did a choreography with her jazzballet- dancers...that was dull, mostly. But seriously: Wuthering Heights, by Kate Bush, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, Boys, by David Bowie and what not, ALL had some sort of videoclip avant la lettre...and ABBA. Happy memory: me at 14 with my first "boyfriend"(holding hands and kissing. Oof! Exciting!) and both of my parents, all dancing together in the livingroom on "Take a chance on me" by Abba....❤😂❤😂

Greetings from Wales. I was also a metal head in my youth - but I think it lays the groundwork for people to appreciate all kinds of other music, from classical, to opera, to folk. There elements of all those in metal. I also grew up with ABBA, and they are absolutely the best at what they do. I've been watching their live shows lately - some of which are surprisingly more rock than I would have thought. Aanyhow, you may appreciate this mash-up...;) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lmjkjZ-HHng.html

I'm Bangladeshi too-nice to meet a fellow deshi with proper musical taste! Are you from Dhakar??????

Yea I thought the same, you absolutely got the point...

despite this is true. i honestly think the industry has got a bit better since last year. thanks to The Strokes, The Weeknd and Ariana, Dua Lipa

It’s soooooooo good

1977

Im 20, i wished i were born in this time, so epic..

your username is so funny lol :)

Funny Lol

Fellow red blooded males it is Agnetha that brought u here...

You can find a lot of ABBAs on the salty fish shelves in supermarkets in Sweden.

SAAB?

And sounds as fresh and vibrant as ever...🎉

@@KapilSingh-f6d for REAL

Sorry to say. But Volvo owns by chinese now

@@lars-gorannilsson4663 not when this song was in the charts 😁

You could also forget SAAB

@@lars-gorannilsson4663 Well ABBA doesnt be owned by Chinese.

Volvo, Saab, and IKEA. Yes, ABBA is ahead of them all.

Waterloo

@@kaushikganguli1091 It's a prelude to the eighties , good eighties music , it could have influenced , enjoy the silence and train of thought !

Eighties !

Agree.

Amazing music 🎼🎼

Are.

Agreed!

Amazing music 🎼🎼

Thanks for sharing, that's an uplifting story. I read their song The Visitors is about the Soviet Union.

END YOUR ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF UKRAINE. TIME PUTRID PUTIN AND THE VILE RUSSIAN FORCES OF OCCUPATION ARE EVICTED FROM UKRAINE. GLORY TO UKRAINE, VICTORY TO UKRAINE, FREEDOM WILL BE UKRAINE'S🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Мы тут до сих пор живём в постсоветской республике и с удовольствием слушаем Аббу)))

I'm 20 this week and I LOVE ABBA and ALWAYS WILL!

I'm lookin', I'm lookin'........ 😍😍😍

Those girls are old grannies now. Doesn't matter, the music they made was magic, still is today

@@TDCflyer Gorgeous Grannies........ 😍😍😍

voices ain't bad either hehe.

Mhe! Just Swedish standard ;) Btw... the blond one lives in my town during summer month´s :)

+Russell Mayley Totally agree, all their songs are timeless classics.

Agreed!

Russell Mayley to 5eee, 5yy

The lovliest lot of peopel that ever produced such marvels of music .

I M M O R T A L . . . ABBA never dies . . . ! In 300 years people look back and say : WOOOW . . . !

il travel with you.😢 but alas we must push forward into the unknown, with JESUS CHRIST preferably. The creator of ALL

It’s more like the 80’s :)

🚕

Travis Bickle will drive us there in his taxi!

I'll get my coat....

I agree!

Yes! I listen to it over and over again to hear that part! And I can't stop. The way that synth climbs up and back down hooks me every time!

Naah. This is only another ABBA song. Maybe it got 13 million views and +2 600 comments but still only a simple pop melody from a now long forgotten group...

Love the windchimes and synth arpeggio during these bridges, they make the song uplifting👍👌

@@user-mv6he6gl8m Abba is legendary. They're still relevant. Their music will never die. They're already a classic.

Fantastic! Just Love Abba Always ❤️💏💔💋🌹💕👌😍💓

ABBA and underrated??? wtf u talking about

This isn't disco music

this is disco so was Take A Chance on Me and most of the Voulez Vous album

Me too loove this

It's so uplifting whilst performed live. It's so reminiscent of the Bee gees.........

Actually, I think Agnetha voiced her opinion that she was not satisfied with this record......

After 42 years I think they have a other view of this Song.

Yup ,they were disappointed and they said it back then I remeber that -same with Gimme Gimme that didnt meet their expectations

@@jari2018 what I love Gimme Gimme Gimme. It’s one of my top Abba favs. It’s brilliant

Wow! 👍🏾👍🏾

One of the rockiest.

Summer night cities would be a fairly narrow window of opportunity in the USSR, nyet?

@@virginiaviola5097 In 1960, 70s, 80s there were practically no restrictions in the USSR. It was strict only during Stalin's time. Then we used to listen a lot of of West music and really enjoyed. Everybody loved music of our past years

@@amycrunch3812 I think the most dancing ABBA song

I know 🙃 ☺️ i Just love it and i'm 21. This was from my moms generation when she was a teen. But now me as a young adult in 2020, listening to this.

thehitman2001uk it actually does

@@theoneandonlyandremusicfan1702 You Rock Bro! 😔 Stay safe in this strange times!

Heraaaa :v

SO FRESHHHH!!!

Listen to Therion version, you'll be amazed.

Me either since it was first released!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate Therion's version :-( just because I wish I could do what they did first!!!! It's pure envy! LOL!!!

Jake Sanderson Amazing ??? Amazing for you...

Alberto Perez Perez, what you mean?

Reminds me of being young and full of energy and hope 👍

Agree, both are great!

saudades

Mark Wright música maravilhosa

the bassline and disco piano are too good here

YAS! Two of my favorite Abba songs

One of my favourites! The retro neon aesthetic was so cool

Let alone her incredible voice and physique!!!

Even if I don't agree with the word 'sell' you used: for me, Frida is anything but a saleswoman - she's an artist with sensitive feelings and an amazing voice!!!

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It's actually mostly Ann Frid

I think they've reunited now

I don't agree, also after that time great songs were made and are still being made. I think it has something to do in which time you grew up which music you like best.

Couldn't agree more!

Just adt Rverb They are effects like Pr0 tun3s Tools Toys

svijet muzike they will never be bettered svijet

great song Please check out , Abba , Arrival , Abba The Album , Voulez - Vous and Super Trouper Album Reviews on my channel

“Psychedelic disco” sums this up well. The minor key of these harmonized vocals just have such an ethereal feel to it!

Don't be ridiculous! ABBA is great but Mozart is a gift from God for humanity.

@@justadude641 ABBA too.

And Queen, Beatles...and some more. They did a lot for the music. Classic is not the untouchable holy grail.

Agnetha too's beautiful ♥

Frida - sam seks, wdzięk. Piękna kobieta! ❤❤❤

Both ladies are sexy and gorgeous. But Frida's beauty is so unique that I can't get tired of looking at her. Her tantalizing eyes kill me 🥰

Septiembre 2024 desde México escuchando y bailando ABBA 🎉💖🥰

Mé,from Czech Republic😁

Me,from Czech Republic