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ABBA的英語專輯只有8張﹐然而在世界各地發行過的單曲就超過50張。

這批Singles 在老家瑞典便有18張為流行榜10大單曲﹑5張取得冠軍﹔英國方面有19張10大單曲﹐9張成冠﹐而美國的成績則是4首10大﹑一首冠軍。在歐洲主要國家﹐分別在荷蘭 (22張10大/8張冠軍)﹑愛爾蘭 (18張10大/11冠軍)﹑ 德國 (19張10大/9張冠軍)﹑ 比利時 (22張10大/16張冠軍) 等﹐成績好不厲害﹐怪不得據聞他們的唱片世界性銷量超過2億張了。

來自ABBA首張專輯“Ring Ring”(1973/Polydor) 中﹐便有首張較為人注意的單曲 People Need Love﹐他們當時還沒有把樂團名字縮短﹐故名字還是 Björn & Benny & Agnetha & Anni-Frid。其實在 Ring Ring專輯首張單曲為“She’s My Kind Of Girl”﹐ 以Björn & Benny之名在推出﹐在老家沒有受到注意﹐然而由 Epic在日本發行﹐卻取得流行榜第7位﹐令人意外。

至於 People Need Love推出時﹐ABBA還算不上成軍﹐因為四人當時各有各忙﹐許多地方推出該單曲仍以Björn & Benny名義推出﹐Agnetha & Anni-Frid則只屬客席參與而已﹐主力還是宣傳這兩名男生的創作組合。People Need Love在瑞典得到第17位﹐開始受到注意﹐而在美國則由一家 Los Angeles小本經營公司 Playboys發行﹐因為發行網過小﹐根本喚不起樂迷注意﹐僅得到流行榜115位﹐但此曲已很突出他們合聲的特色﹐而 B Sides的 Merry-Go-Round還很具民歌味道﹐與 ABBA中期待流曲曲或後期的舞曲有很大差異。


People Need Love (1972/Polar/Polydor) Track List:
01 People Need Love
02 Merry-Go-Round

People Need Love﹕原收錄於“Ring Ring”(1973/Polar) 專輯中。
(Benny Andersson / Björn Ulvaeus)


People need hope, people need loving
People need trust from a fellow man
People need love to make a good living
People need faith in a helping hand

Man has always wanted a woman by his side to keep him company
Women always knew that it takes a man to get matrimonial harmony
Everybody knows that a man who’s feeling down wants some female sympathy
Gotta have love to carry on living
Gotta have love till eternity

La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la la
La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la laa...

Flowers in the desert need a drop of rain like a woman needs her man
If a man’s in love and his woman wants the moon
Then hell it down if he can
Somebody who loves you and somebody who cares
Isn’t that what you’d call a friend?
Gotta have love to carry on living
You can have peace if you understand

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Merry-Go-Round (Edited Short Version)﹕原收錄於“Ring Ring”(1973/Polar) 專輯中。
(Benny Andersson / Björn Ulvaeus)


I have tried in vain never had success
So it seems my life is nothing but a mess
I have lost my only friend
Now it seems I have to start again

Merry-go-round
Where am I bound
With my love and feelings
Merry-go-round
Who wants to kiss me
And hug me and miss me
Yes, who wants to do it
I wish that I knew it
Merry-go-round
Wish I had found
Somebody to care for
Where am I bound
Life is so lonely
If life is just only
To love with my loving
Goes round and round

Looking for someone
Who would want to stay
I might find her
With a bit of luck one day
But who knows
So until then
I can only try and try again



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