Arrival

1. ABBA-dabba-dooo!! (television special 1976)
Includes:
Knowing Me, Knowing You
When I Kissed The Teacher (early mix)
Dum Dum Diddle (live)
My Love, My Life
Money, Money, Money,
Dancing Queen
Tiger
Why Did It Have To Be Me (live)

2. Dancing Queen (The Best Of ABBA/Musikladen Extra 1976)

3. Fernando (Top Of The Pops 1976)

4. Happy Hawaii (cartoon)

5. Dancing Queen recording session (Mr Trendsetter 1975)

6. ABBA In London, November 1976 (Nationwide 1976)

7. ABBA’s 1976 success – news report (Rapport 1976)

8. Arrival television commercial I

9. Arrival television commercial II

10. International sleeve gallery

Credits:

We’ve recorded this album at the Metronome studio, during 1976. As usual we’ve been working with Michael B. Tretow, sound engineer as well as an invaluable pusher and a never ending source of ideas.

It’s been a privilege to have a lot of our friends playing with us on the album. Rutger Gunnarsson, for instance, who plays bass on all the tracks and who also wrote the excellent string arrangements for “MY LOVE, MY LIFE”. Drummer Ola Brunkert (one day we’re gonna let you hear him sing) plays on eight songs and Roger Palm on one, “DANCING QUEEN”. These guys are even happier than usual when they get together with percussionist Malando Gassama and his sack full of strange and exotic rhythm instruments. Janne Schaffer plays electric guitar on “WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE ME”, “THAT’S ME” and if you listen carefully you can pick up a few notes on “MY LOVE, MY LIFE” too. Anders Glenmark is the electric guitarist on “MONEY, MONEY, MONEY” and Lasse Wellander plays on “KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU” and “TIGER” and changes to acoustic on ‘DUM DUM DIDDLE”, where he’s joined by Björn who is responsible for all the acoustic and a few of the electric guitars on the album. Synthesizers, marimbas, chimes, accordions, pianos, Benny plays any keyboard instruments he can lay his hands on, especially on “ARRIVAL” where Anders Dahl helped us with the strings. Every now and then you can hear violins on “DANCING QUEEN” and they were arranged by Sven-Olaf Walldoff. Finally Lasse Carlsson is playing sax on “WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE ME”.

All vocals are of course sung by ourselves. Solo parts on “MY LOVE, MY LIFE” and “WHEN I KISSED THE TEACHER” by Agnetha, “MONEY, MONEY, MONEY”, “KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU” by Frida and solo parts on “WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE ME” by Björn. The layout and the idea for the cover came from Rune Söderqvist and Ola Lager, who also took the beautiful photos.
We thank you all for helping us complete this album.

ABBA

Benny Andersson: piano, keyboards, vocals
Ola Brunkert: drums
Lasse Carlsson: saxophone (Why Did It Have To Be Me)
Anders Dahl: string arrangement (Arrival)
Agnetha Fältskog: vocals
Malando Gassama: percussion
Anders Glenmark: guitar (Money, Money, Money,)
Rutger Gunnarsson: bass; string arrangement (My Love, My Life)
Anni-Frid Lyngstad: vocals
Roger Palm: drums
Janne Schaffer: guitar
Björn Ulvæus: guitar, vocals
Sven-Olof Walldoff: string arrangement (Dancing Queen)
Lasse Wellander: guitar

Album design: Rune Söderqvist
Photo: Ola Lager

Recorded at Metronome Studio, Stockholm: August-December 1975, March-September 1976

Produced by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvæus

Engineered by Michael B. Tretow

℗ 1976 Polar Music AB

Release:

Released 11 October 1976

Released on CD 1984
Remastered CD released May 1997 with 1 additional track
Remastered CD released in USA March 1999 without additional track
Reissued remastered CD released 25 June 2001 with 2 bonus tracks
Sound + Vision (2001 CD with bonus DVD) released 29 April 2004
Deluxe Edition CD/DVD released 9 October 2006
Mastered for iTunes released 4 April 2014
40th anniversary half speed mastered LP released 7 October 2016
Picture disc LP released 10 June 2022