Happy New Year
by ABBA

Album: Super Trouper (1980)
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Songfacts®:

  • This was one of several songs on Super Trouper written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus during a working holiday in Barbados. The song actually started life as an idea for a musical. The plot was to be centered around a New Year's Eve, a thought that got into Björn and Benny's heads on a plane over to the island. They ran into the comedian John Cleese at the holiday resort and asked him if he would be interested in writing a manuscript. When Cleese turned them down, the idea was abandoned.
  • This wasn't released as a single until 1999 when it reached #4 in Sweden and #8 in The Netherlands. The song was re-released in 2008 and it again peaked at #4 in Sweden, as well as #5 in Norway and #14 in Denmark.
  • Swedish pop group A-Teens covered the song in 2000 peaking at, yep, #4 on the Swedish chart as well as #12 in Finland.
  • This had a working title of "Daddy Don't Get Drunk On Christmas Day."

Comments: 1

  • George Pope from Vancouver BcOdd they likely conceived the song in 1979, but sang about New Year 1989; maybe to keep the song relevant longer? It's 2023, & I happily play this as relevant still on the morning of 1st of January, as I do yearly. . .
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