'Mamma Mia' (Italian: My
mother) literal translation is
My God! Thanks to all the
people who sent me the correct
interpretation, is a song from
ABBA's third album, ABBA, and
was written by Stig Anderson,
Benny Andersson and Björn
Ulvaeus[1], with the lead
vocals shared by Agnetha
Fältskog and Anni-Frid
Lyngstad. The B-side
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'Mamma Mia' (Italian: My
mother) literal translation is
My God! Thanks to all the
people who sent me the correct
interpretation, is a song from
ABBA's third album, ABBA, and
was written by Stig Anderson,
Benny Andersson and Björn
Ulvaeus[1], with the lead
vocals shared by Agnetha
Fältskog and Anni-Frid
Lyngstad. The B-side of the
single was the instrumental
'Intermezzo No. 1', composed
by Benny Andersson. It was
first released on the ABBA
album in April 1975.High
listener interest saw the
single released in the winter
of 1975-76, first in Sweden
and then the United Kingdom,
where the single rose to the
top of the charts. It was
released in the United States
in January 1976 and took
twenty weeks to rise up the
Billboard Hot 100, eventually
peaking at #32.Already popular
for years in their native
Sweden, 'Mamma Mia' was one of
the first songs to make a
breakthrough in the United
Kingdom. It took the single
nearly two months after it was
released to top the UK charts
(and stayed there for two
weeks - ABBA's second UK chart
topper) for a number of weeks,
ABBA held at number two behind
Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.
Interestingly, this number-one
single that preceded 'Mamma
Mia' also contained the words
'Mamma Mia' in the lyrics. The
United States' reception of
the single, however, was
lukewarm. In Canada, the
single was not released, a
rarity for the group.The
single also topped the charts
in Australia, where ABBA were
unaccountably huge. At the
time, it was rumoured that a
third of the country owned an
ABBA record. 'Mamma Mia' also
topped the charts in Ireland,
Switzerland, and West Germany.
It stopped at number two in
New Zealand and in Norway and
Belgium, while hitting number
three in Belgium and number
five in South Africa.The
single's popularity was
boosted by a promotional music
video, in which one of the
singers' faces were shown in
profile opposite the others'
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