Honey, Honey
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| Single by ABBA | ||||||||||||||
| from the album Waterloo | ||||||||||||||
| B-side | "King Kong Song" (Sweden, Denmark, Belgium) "Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)" (Australia, Canada, US) "Ring Ring" (Austria, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland) "Hasta Mañana" (Netherlands, Spain) |
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| Released | April 1974 | |||||||||||||
| Format | Vinyl | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | January 1974 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Pop, europop | |||||||||||||
| Length | 2:56 | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) |
Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus Stig Anderson |
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| Producer(s) | Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus |
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"Honey, Honey" is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released as the second single from their second studio album, Waterloo, after the success of the title track winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.
"Honey, Honey" was written by Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Stig Anderson, with shared vocals by Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Ulvaeus. As well as the English version, ABBA also recorded "Honey, Honey" in Swedish on January 30, 1974 at Metronome Studio, .
This was the last official recording by the group in their own language, and was released as the B-side of the Swedish "Waterloo" single. In its English format, "Honey, Honey" was released with "King Kong Song" as the B-side.
"Honey, Honey" was released in several European countries, the United States, Australia & New Zealand, but not in the UK. ABBA's British record label, Epic Records, decided to release a remixed version of "Ring Ring". But this single only reached No.32, so, instead, a cover version of "Honey, Honey" was recorded by the act Sweet Dreams, featuring vocalist Polly Brown, promptly hitting the UK top 10.
"Honey, Honey" spent 4 months in the top 5 in West Germany and also reached the top 5 in Austria, Spain and Switzerland. In the United States, "Honey, Honey" was moderately successful compared to the group's later singles. It reached No.27 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts; the 1st ABBA single to reach the AC chart.
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