The highlight of the visit was the recording of the tv special "The Best Of Abba" with a studio audience at Channel 9 studios in Artarmon, Sydney from March 9-12. The next day Björn and Benny arrived at his house to make that crucial decision - which song would they choose? They decided Waterloo was the better choice because it broke the Eurovision "solo female ballad" tradition and would stand out being a rock number and focused on both Frida and Agnetha as lead singers.Ībba made their first visit to Australia from March 4-13 1976. Stig arrived back in Stockholm on January 5, just two days before the deadline for submitting entries to the Swedish selection contest. The song was so convincing that it felt a suitable contender for the Eurovision Song Contest, following the profile of every Eurovision winner since 1967. I sang it in that really emotional way and then we found that we were on the right way." "Then I ended up alone in the studio and fooled around a bit, thinking that I might do it like Connie Francis would. "We realised that neither of us were able to sing it and we had actually started to give up on it" Agnetha recalled. The text came together very quickly." Once the lyrics were complete Stig shocked his fellow tourists by dictating them very loudly down a crackly telephone line between Spain and Sweden!Īt first Agnetha and Frida could not find the right way to interpret the song. I liked this expression and thought it fitted the music perfectly. Stig recalled "While I was on holiday in Las Palmas I often heard people say 'Hasta mañana' (see you tomorrow) on the radio and in the street. ABBA manager Stig Anderson was just about to leave for a Christmas holiday trip to the Canary Islands, when a cassette tape with the backing track for the new ballad was given to him with the instructions: "Please write some lyrics for this!". Waterloo was completed first and it was more or less decided that this would be ABBA's submission for Melodifestivalen. Both Waterloo and Hasta Manana were written and recorded in December 1973. Waterloo also had Agnetha and Frida sharing lead vocals as normal, which was unusual for Eurovision, whereas Hasta Manana had Agnetha as the sole lead vocalist and would give the wrong impression of the group. ABBA wanted to be different and really stand out from everybody else with a British style rock and roll number for Brighton rather than a ballad, and decided on Waterloo instead. The previous four winners had all been solo female singers with a ballad, which was how the Agnetha-led Hasta Mañana would have come across. Abba considered two songs for Eurovision 1974, these were Waterloo and Hasta Manana.
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