ABBA and Rutger "Svea Svea" rare unreleased track!

[ClassicMusicArchives]

Thanks for posting this. It must be one of the most "unusual" Abba related videos or songs anywhere.

Rutger was of course a tower of strength in the Abba Band, their main strings arranger, long time bassist, played in all concerts and on all albums, and no matter how wild it got on stage, he was always a cool, collected anchor binding the band together with his fantastic bass ability.

[bananrakvatten]

haha, actually rutger was the bass player for abba, not guitarist

[TheABBAinESC]

Funny and interesting :-)

[davidpar2]

NORDIC TINY TIM!!

[LittlePinkPrincessx3]

my name is svea =)

[nieljco]

Gillar felskrivningen av "och på dina ängder gröna folket myser" - "och på dina änder gröna folket nyser". :)

[SUPERDOOPERTUBER]

I had this record and found it was so horrible that I put it on Ebay and it sold for $73!

[dh1267]

This is cleary not ABBA and this is not funny.

[KarlDan]

@dh1267 It's ABBA indeed: Björn, Benny, Micke Tretow, and all their usual retinue of musicians. Rutger was their guitar player on their records and in concerts. ABBA decided not to finish the song (Happens all the time) and let Rutger finish and release it. The exact same happened with Svenne & Lotta's Funky Feet. Even the credits joke at ABBA's involvment.

[thalisonlima474]

credo que lixo!

[promagnum]

does anyone have a rough translation of this?

[jazzbobrown]

This is unique! Being a norwegian, listening to this is great fun: Björn's lyrics is pure nonesense, addressing Alma Mater "Mother Sweden (Svea)" and asking what has happened with the nation: "Sister Norway" has discovered oil in the North Sea, and thus grows immensly rich all of a sudden (Norway used to be the poor neighbour). The ridiculous lyrics poke fun at swedes and their jealousy -but ABBAs vocals (recorded July 1971) are nice to hear; Rutgers falsetto is just hilarious! They had fun!

[ImsyVimsy]

This is crap! I dont care how much ABBA there is in this

[warmdotomten]

ohh myy g--- whats this

[Keijz74]

Nice song, sounds funny: I don't understand swedish and I have never heard Rutger's song before.

[Akelei13]

Yes my name is Svea xD i like Sverige <3

[ainsleystones]

Rutger is one hell of a musician!

[initialsag]

Can someone send the lyrics of this song (and perhaps the translation) ? Thanks !

[lessthan50percent]

The lyrics is written on the video

as to translation: the text is just a joke

[KarlDan]

Thank you for your opinion.

[TomKay]

I kind of know what Cory's saying. It's certainly an... interesting vocal (I guess it's meant to be comedic), but musically it's first class, and with an ABBA vocal would have fitted very well in the Ring Ring album...

[Tyronethe23rd]

I have long admired the bass guitar playing on ABBA songs, which was apparently the work of Mr. Gunnarsson.

He was a better bass player than a singer, although his effort here as the Swedish Tiny Tim has a certain offbeat appeal.

[Joeluvsagnetha]

He did most of the bass guitar, there were several players at several times, so there were other musicians playing bass with him at any one time

[wilhub]

always a joy to get anything those girls put their voices to, thanks a lot.

[3hamlet3]

what does Svea mean? Is it a name?

[gladajag]

Svea is a female name. It is also a traditional name for Sweden - "Moder Svea" = "Mother Sweden". The lyrics are about the country.

[3hamlet3]

Thank you! :)

[JohanGoteborg]

The text is about the oil crise.

[3hamlet3]

Wow, how bad can one sing? But the backing vocals are great ;)

thanks!

[SadLookinMoon]

haha, lovely!!

thank you so much for sharing this rare piece!