ABBA Hovas vittne

[blueeyedboyize]

A fun track,Agnetha & Frida obviously having a great time here!!!

[RL8414]

what is the video used for this? It cannot not Hovas Vittne, their singing often does not match the vocal on the track.. sometimes they arent "Singing" at all on the video while the vocal on the track continues

[ameeba]

@RL8414 The video is old and the quality is not super...

[Almog3]

@RL8414 It's their perfomance from the Eurovision in 1974.

[1agnethafan]

Their voice together were so beautiful. :))

Agy looks fat.

[VGiustetto]

also frida get the same outfit.....

[Liesellouis]

I am impressed Agnetha could get into the same Waterloo outfit 8 years and two children later. Great stuff. Best bottom EVER!

[Stevend2be]

Very rare song !!!

Thanks for upload.

Greetings from Steven

May ♥ Love ♥ be with you !!

[JimColyer]

Stig was so important to ABBA. They could not have made it without him.

[superduck1970]

thanks to bengtc for that observation! Just played Merano & you are so right!

[bengtc]

Wonerful to see this video!! The melody line they sing from 0.46 to 0.50 sec "Raska klackar slå er nu som ett jehu är du" was also used in the chorus in Merano from Chess, with the lyrics: The sparkling streams, the bracing air

The therapeutic salt

[nosrednas62]

skon flicka agnetha

[laurenhooba]

They're wearing the "Waterloo" outfits in this lovely ABBA clip.

[doctorwhorox]

RE: Marloisbewitched: according to a book I read, the word on the sign "Sticket" means a bridge of a song.

Can anybody who speaks Swedish tanslate this song? I heard the lyrics are really clever.

[suetoniusblogger]

The song is not about jehovas witness. The title is a play with words. ABBA:s manager comes from a village in Sweden with the name "Hova".

[jazzbobrown]

The track itself was recorded January 18th in the Polar studios, and released on 200 red vinyl copies only -as gifts to the guests at the party, and featured an instrumental version of Stig Andersons first hit 'Tivedshambo' on the b-side (which ABBA performed singing as a tribute to Stig 5 years later on a more amateurish video made January 16th 1986 for the portrait 'This Is Your Life' for Stigs 55th birthday on swedish tv). The 'Hovas Vittne' clip was filmed January 24th 1981.

[jazzbobrown]

Filmed at the Berns theatre in Stockholm, and directed by Kurt Hjelte, and shown on swedish tv May 3rd 1982 on a programme entitled O.S.A. (Om Svar Anhålles -the swedish equivalent of R.S.V.P.).

[TyskaTonfisk]

Great Video, great Music!

[novalis]

i mean: tight!

[novalis]

Agnetha's outfit isn't as thin as it used to be... haha!

[Marloisbewitched]

What does it say on Benny's little sign he holds up? :3

[badlongon]

i don't think that this is their last video because they broke up as a group in dec of 1982.

[aghnifrid]

too bad there was not a close up of the group, for me they look as in 1974.

[Marloisbewitched]

Are they wearing the same outfits they wore on Eurovision when they won? ;3

[martkir]

I love this song. Thanks for explaining that hovas vittne is about Jehovas Witness. I realise people make fun of them, yet I was told that they were one of the first to tell what the Nazis did re gas chamber and one of the first sent there along with homosexuals, mad people, gypsies and political protestors. It was not just the poor Jewish people that were gassed, yet they did not appear in any Spielberg film. Long live the "Hovas Vittnes!"

[EnzFab73]

You're right about the Jehovah's Witnesses. I did see a documentary that stated thousands & thousands perished in the concentration camps alongside Jews, homosexuals & Gypsies yet not many people know this. However ABBA wasn't making fun of them. Like someone already mentioned, the title of the song is just a play on words & it seems like a cheery tribute to Stig.

[bennybass]

Ah... good eye! Probably as a tribute.  I hope... :)

[heyheyhelen]

Lovely! I've heard the song but I've never seen the video!!! Here's a link to the english translation of the song-

http://www.abba-world.net/song­s/lyrics/hv.htm

[jradetzky]

Supercool!

[Spanky01]

Essential viewing for all Abba fans, and yes, it's the rarest Abba clip, and the last performance on video by them. Catchy tune. Too bad they never wrote English lyrics for it and released it as a single.

[Navarres1983]

this video was performed in january 1981, to celebrate Stig Andersson's (manager) birthday and they were to take a break as group in december de 1982, but, yes is very very hard to find this video

[earlfist]

i could be wrong but this is the last performance... EVER...IT is from the swedish "this is you life" fantastic clip.

[abbafan1974]

this isn't rare, ITS VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY RARE!