ABBA – The Album

(song numbers in brackets indicate track number on CD)

Side 1:

1. (1) Eagle

2. (2) Take A Chance On Me

3. (3) One Man, One Woman

4. (4) The Name Of The Game
(4) The Name Of The Game (promotional edit) (on early pressings of 1997 remastered CD)

Side 2:

1. (5) Move On

2. (6) Hole In Your Soul

3. “The Girl With The Golden Hair”
    – 3 scenes from a mini-musical –

a. (7) Thank You For The Music

b. (8) I Wonder (Departure)

c. (9) I’m A Marionette

Bonus track on 2001 reissued remastered CD:

10: Thank You For The Music (Doris Day)

Bonus tracks on Deluxe Edition 2007:

10. Eagle (single edit)

11. Take A Chance On Me (live version, alternate mix)

12. Thank You For The Music (Doris Day version)

13. Al Andar

14. I Wonder (Departure) (live version)

15. Gracias Por La Música

Deluxe Edition DVD 2007:

1. Eagle/Thank You For The Music (Star Parade. ZDF)

2. Take A Chance On Me (Am Laufenden Band, Radio Bremen)

3. The Name Of The Game (ABBA Special, TBS)

4. Thank You For The Music (Mike Yarwood’s Christmas Show, BBC)

5. Take A Chance On Me (Star Parade, ZDF)

6. ABBA on tour in 1977 (Rapport, SVT)

7. Recording ABBA – The Album (Gomorron Sverige, SVT)

8. ABBA in London, February 1978 (Blue Peter, BBC)

9. ABBA in America, May 1978 (Rapport, SVT)

10. ABBA – The Album Television Commercial I (UK)

11. ABBA – The Album Television Commercial II (Australia)

12. International Sleeve Gallery

Credits:

Benny Andersson: keyboards, vocals
Ola Brunkert: drums
Lars O. Carlsson: saxophone and flute
Agnetha Fältskog: vocals
Malando Gassama: percussion
Rutger Gunnarsson: bass, string arrangements
Anni-Frid Lyngstad: vocals
Roger Palm: drums
Janne Schaffer: guitar (Eagle)
Björn Ulvæus: guitar, vocals
Lasse Wellander: guitar

Recorded and mixed at Marcus Music, Metronome Studio, Glenstudio, Stockholm; Bohus Studio, Kungälv: May-November 1977

Album design: Rune Söderqvist
Illustrations: Rune Söderqvist/Björn Andersson
Photo: Barry Levine/Mirage

All songs written, produced and arranged by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvæus, except ‘The Name Of The Game’, ‘Move On’, ‘I Wonder (Departure)’ (Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson, & Björn Ulvæus), ‘Al Andar’ (Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus, Spanish lyrics by Buddy & Mary McClusky), ‘Gracias Por La Música’ (Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus; Spanish lyric by Buddy & Mary McClusky)

Engineered by Michael B. Tretow

℗&© 1977 Polar Music International AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Release:

Released 12 December 1977

Released on CD 1984
Remastered CD released May 1997
Remastered CD released in USA March 1999
Reissued remastered CD released 25 June 2001 with 1 bonus track
Deluxe Edition CD/DVD released 15 October 2007
180 gram vinyl LP reissue released 21 July 2008
Mastered for iTunes released 4 April 2014 with no bonus tracks
40th anniversary half speed mastered LP released 27 October 2016
Picture disc LP released 10 June 2022

Also:

Available as part of Chronicles – 3 Classic Albums box set in USA

See also:

ABBA – The Movie soundtracks

ABBA – The Movie

ABBA – The Album 40th anniversary

ABBA – The Album LP 1977
ABBA – The Album MC Sweden 1977
ABBA – The Album LP UK 1978
ABBA – The Album Special Editon LP Austria, Switzerland 1978
ABBA – The Album MC Japan 1978
ABBA – El Album LP Argentina 1978
ABBA – The Album LP Ecuador 1978
ABBA – The Album LP USSR 1978
ABBA – The Album MC Japan 1981
ABBA – The Album CD 1984
ABBA – The Album LP USSR 1988
ABBA – The Album CD 2001
ABBA – The Album CD/DVD Deluxe Edition 2007
ABBA – The Album vinyl album 60th anniversary 180 gsm LP 2008
ABBA – The Album 40th anniversary 2LP 2017
ABBA – The Album picture disc LP 2022