ABBA "Just Like That"; The Story of an unreleased ABBA Song

[TheMjblades]

I find both versions perfect. More to the point, I find them entirely different songs, as the lyrics are so drastically different, so Bjorn is pig-headed and unfair not to give us what we want, the git! After all, he released 'Happy Hawaii' which is supposed to resemble an "Arrival" album track somewhat. Everything on the Gemini debut, including the left-off 'When I Close My Eyes' & an 1985 b-side 'Copy Love' were all magnificent, especially 'Slowly' which is, sorry Frids, way better than hers.

[Fabian81]

I personally never been a fan of the Gemini version .... although I respect the fact that Benny and Bjorn consider it to be the definitive version of it. I felt their recording of Frida's Slowly was far better than this. Too obscure and depressive for a song that had a more melancolic yet joyful in the ABBA recording. Now what ended being remarkable is the piano demo of When The Waves Roll To The Sea: it made the verses even more beautiful.

[GoldenOldiesOn45RPM]

I never realised the Abba boys were such fans of Tommy Cooper 

[jazzbobrown]

Almost complete. Björn and Benny considers the compositions making out 'Just like That' to be released already: Gemini's version from 1985 got the choruses from ABBAs demo, and the version named 'When The Waves Roll Out To Sea' was used beautifully in the swedish staging of Chess in 2002 as 'Glöm Mig Om Du Kan'. The melody lines have been shifted around, and found their final places in finished and recorded and released definite versions.

[MyABBACollection]

If you add "If The Stars Are In The Sky" a demo by by Tommy Körberg, the story is complete.

Great video!

[mikaelscerr5]

Can't control the repeat button ... Nice Vid !!! =))

[TheAbbafan1234]

Written by Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus. Unreleased by them, it was rewritten into two different songs for the musical chess, with at least three demos recorded by Elaine Paige and Tommy Korberg during 1983/4

Unused in Chess, it was slightly re-written again and recorded by 'Gemini' in 1985. Finally in 1996 it was recorded by the Webb. (you missed that step out)

[TheAbbafan1234]

where did you get the version by elaine paige? the chorus isn't exactly the same.

[retroexplosion1]

R.I.P. Gerry Rafferty (Baker Street) who was the sax player on the "sax version".

[valiumland]

@retroexplosion1 I thought it was Raphael Ravenscroft.

[hbotis]

@retroexplosion1

wow! REALLY!!!! AMAZING...

[wafrom]

great Abba song... it's a shame it still remain unreleased . thank you so much for sharing :)

[2038165479]

Thank you very much for doing this great and fantastic 'Just Like That' tribute 2012 it is 30 years old so it may get released for the anniversary we will have to wait and see

[GPATRS1]

@2038165479 Who knows. One thing is for sure, with every release (ABBA) nowadays there is always something unreleased released. Who wants to buy things that is already released in various formats? So they thrown in unreleased materials , like the DVD parts of deluxe releases.

I think that they sooner or later runs out of ideas for releasing unreleased material and that's when we get just like that and other gems.

[abbaregistro]

5*****

[abbafanglosuk]

This is a wonderful song and a great shame that it has not been released for all Abba fans to hear. Well done for putting all these different versions together for comparison. Have to agree that Agnetha's Na-Na's version is unbeatable, her voice is a musical instrument in its own right!

[huviretki1]

Nice idea to put all the versions together. My favourite is the na-na-na version. :)