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Take On Me

"Take On Me"
A-ha take on me-1stcover.jpg
First release (1984)
Single by A-ha
from the album Hunting High and Low
B-side
  • "And You Tell Me"
  • "Stop! And Make Your Mind Up"
  • "Love Is Reason"
Released 19 October 1984
Format
Recorded
  • 1984
  • 1985 (re-release)
Genre
Length
  • 3:18 (7" version)
  • 3:54 (long version)
  • 3:49 (single version)
  • 4:48 (extended version)
Label Warner Bros.
Writer(s)
Producer(s)
A-ha singles chronology
"Take On Me"
(1984)
"Love is Reason"
(1985)
Music video
Take On Me (Original Version) on YouTube
Take On Me on YouTube
Alternative cover art
Third release (1985)
"Take On Me"
Take On Me Reel Big Fish.jpg
Single by Reel Big Fish
from the album BASEketball
Released 1998
Format CD single
Recorded 1998
Genre Ska punk
Length 3:14
Label Mojo
Writer(s)
Reel Big Fish singles chronology
"Sell Out"
(1997)
"Take On Me"
(1999)
"Where Have You Been?"
(2002)
Music video
"Take On Me" on YouTube
"Take On Me"
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Single by A1
from the album The A List
B-side "I Got Sunshine"
Released 14 August 2000
Format
Recorded 1999
Genre Dance-pop
Length 3:46
Label
Writer(s)
A1 singles chronology
"Like a Rose"
(2000)
"Take On Me"
(2000)
"Same Old Brand New You"
(2000)
Music video
"Take On Me" on YouTube

"Take On Me" is a song by Norwegian synthpop band A-ha. Written by the band members, the original version was produced by Tony Mansfield and remixed by John Ratcliff. The second version of the song was produced by Alan Tarney for the group's debut studio album Hunting High and Low (1985). The song combines synthpop with a varied instrumentation that includes acoustic guitars, keyboards and drums.

The original "Take On Me" was recorded in 1984 and it took two versions and three releases to finally chart in the United Kingdom, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart in October 1985. In the United States in October 1985, the song became the only A-ha song to reach the top position of the Billboard Hot 100, due in no small part to the wide exposure on MTV of its innovative music video, directed by Steve Barron. The video features the band in a pencil-sketch animation method called rotoscoping, combined with live action. The video won six awards and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards.

Pål Waaktaar and Magne Furuholmen began their music careers playing in a band called Bridges, together with Viggo Bondi and Øystein Jevanord. In 1981, the band produced Fakkeltog (Torch-light parade), an LP for which all of the music was composed by the group themselves, most of it being written by Waaktaar. One of the tracks rehearsed at this time (although not included on the LP) was called "The Juicy Fruit Song". It included elements of the future "Take On Me", including an early version of the central riff. Soon after, Bridges disbanded. Waaktaar and Furuholmen relocated to London to try their hand in the music industry there, but after six months of disappointment they returned to Norway.


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