ABBA : Dancing Queen (Live Australia ‘77) HQ Widescreen
January 9, 2010 by
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Thanks for all the fine comments Glad you are enjoying it !! Outstanding live version here from The Sydney showgrounds , Australia 1977 You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen Friday night and the lights are low Looking out for the place to go Where they play the right music, getting in the swing You come in to look for a king Anybody could be that guy Night is young and the music?s high With a bit of rock music …
there are no words for how great this live version really is.. I mean… WOW… It has been my favorite abba performance since I first saw it, and I still know why – pure quality and love! That is why I cant understand why they didnt put this on the Abba Live record!? why did they pic thier crappiest version from the 79 tour? to me that is weird… anyone who agrees? ABBA IS THE SHIT!
This is what music is supposed to sound like and how its supposed to make people feel.
The definitive version. They were SO on form on this tour.
was a great tour and they looked their best too but actually i liked the dancing queen 79 version just as much but you could see Agnetha was struggling unlike on this tour
If there was any doubt that these people could play live,as opposed to being great only in the studio, well…this should put that to rest. Unbelievable. This versions’ a bit quicker than the original, but it works, I also love the one of the back up singers singing “kinda Soul style”. BTW, for the musicians out there in youtube land, have you noticed that this version is in the key “G” instead of the original and other live versions int he key of “A”?
nemesisrouge, yes they were performing great live during this tour. I think later on during the divorces, something was missing from their later concerts, which I guess was understandable. Glad I got to see them during these concerts in 1977 in sydney.
yes, I noticed that..the played most of their songs in a different key in the concerts, probably because people know the songs so well in the original key, so this would sound more interesting…
buen video, gracias por subirlo!!!! inmortal
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Beautiful memories from Australia…
2 words
lip sync
dougydo109, You are kidding! This is live. All of these songs from the australian concerts were live. How can you not tell the difference?
Hmm…. I think dougydo109 may be right on this song. Abba recording relied heavily on multitracks recordings of each voice layered over itself. Gives it that complex tone. That is what this sounds like. It may be that this was the only lip synch song in the concert.
Correct. Only a clown would say “lip synch.”
if you noticed a drop of a semi tone then you wouldn’t say the tripe you did, about it sounding different to the audience.
why not? it does sound a little different. If you play some instrument (for instance piano) and try to play some song in a different key than you usually do, it really is more interesting..because you are not used to it..
the only other reason I can think of is, that they play it lower because it´s harder for the girls singing so high live, so that they don´t have to strain their voices so much.
Got it in one. The girls’ voices. Plus, if it was dropped from A to Ab then Benny and the other pianists (even the guitarists) would have an extremely hard time. But A to G is much easier.
ABBA didn´t lip sync in concert. They played it in G Major. Many bands play high songs lower to make it easier for the singers.
I adore this song forever I really do. And it is lovely hearing it live and not lip synched like it usually is. Wonderful. It is is in a different key. Not that I’m overly bothered:)
Wow, that’s just staggeringly great isn’t it?
ahh.. love this song veeeeryy much…
yes, that happens
Great time shwen you could take kids to a live concert and you knew it was live,
On some of their records their voices were sped up. The original ‘Ring Ring’ is a good example.