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Lay All Your Love on Me

"Lay All Your Love on Me"
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Single by ABBA
from the album Super Trouper
A-side "On and On and On"
Released July 1981
Format 12"
Genre Synthpop, europop
Length 4:32
Label Polar Music
Writer(s) Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus
Producer(s) Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus
ABBA singles chronology
"Happy New Year"
(1980)
"Lay All Your Love on Me"
(1981)
"One of Us"
(1981)
Music video
"Lay All Your Love on Me" on YouTube
"Lay All Your Love on Me"
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Single by Information Society
from the album Information Society
Released 1989
Format LP
Genre Dance, synthpop, electronica
Label Tommy BoyTB 933
Writer(s) Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus
Information Society singles chronology
"Repetition"
(1989)
"Lay All Your Love on Me"
(1989)
"Think"
(1990)
"Lay All Your Love On Me"
Single by Helloween
from the album Metal Jukebox
Released 1999
Genre Power metal
Length 11:08
Label Victor Entertainment
Writer(s) Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus
Helloween singles chronology
Hey Lord!"
(1998)
"Lay All Your Love On Me"
(1999)
"If I Could Fly"
(2000)

"Lay All Your Love on Me", is a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA in 1980 for their Super Trouper album. It was released only as a 12-inch single in 1981 in limited territories, rather than as a standard 7-inch record. At the time, it was the highest selling 12-inch record in UK chart history, where it peaked at number 7. "Lay All Your Love on Me" appears on the group's ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits collection.

Slant Magazine placed it at number 60 on their list of the greatest dance songs of all time.

"Lay All Your Love on Me" is an electro-disco song penned by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, with Agnetha Fältskog singing lead. Recording began at Polar Music Studios in Stockholm on 9 September 1980, with the final mix of the song being completed on 10 October 1980.

"Lay All Your Love on Me" is known for a descending vocal sound at the end of the verse immediately preceding the refrain. This was achieved by sending the vocal into a harmoniser device, which was set up to produce a slightly lower-pitched version of the vocal. In turn its output was fed back to its input, thereby continually lowering the pitch of the vocal. Andersson and Ulvaeus felt that the chorus of the song sounded like a hymn, so parts of the vocals in the choruses were run through a vocoder, to recreate the sound of a church congregation singing, slightly out of tune. The song was not originally intended to be released as a single, but was issued in 12-inch form in the UK and a few other countries in 1981. "Lay All Your Love on Me" has since been much covered and now features in the Mamma Mia! musical that showcases many of ABBA's hits.

ABBA did not film a promotional video for "Lay All Your Love on Me", and so Epic hastily assembled a video by using excerpts from the existing ABBA videos for "Take a Chance on Me", "Summer Night City", "The Name of the Game", "I Have a Dream", "Voulez-Vous" and "The Winner Takes It All".


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