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  • Best ever !

  • if it wasnt for the nights i would starve . bla bla

  • If It Wasn't For The Nights must be a #1

  • i'm 15 and a big fan of ABBA GOLD, they are the real KING OF POP! <3

  • @bestfriends5001 king??

  • When the music was the image. Now the image is the music. Shame!

  • This was fantastic Thank You! Very Much For Posting! Fantastic!

  • Yes. They are lip synching. Just like everyone were those days.

    

  • Someone please clear this up for me once and for all: are they lip synching here? Because it certainly looks so, though the song is slightly different from the album version.

  • Awesome performance.ABBA will be forever alive!

    hugs fromPhilippines

  • The 70s as a kid were brill! Back then I thought ABBA would last forever.......and they have. The work they have done is there for generations to come. They will love it too, no question!

  • Once upon a time pop songs used to have a meaning...you were listening to them and you were thinking moments of your life either happy or sad. Nowadays the lyrics have no meaning.

  • It's the first time I see them in black. Hmmm, look great!

  • OMG Benny was just sooooooo hot in his hey-day.

    

  • Really wonderful, specially when performing live!!!

    Hugs to all fans worldwide, from Brazil!

  • @presan

    Thank you, hugs from Poland : )

  • This makes me proud to be born in Sweden! :)

  • ABSOLUTELY ONE OF MY FAVS!!! I'm really surprised that this wasn't on the Gold Album 

  • I really love Agnetha. From Paraguay !!!

  • Im also 10 and im biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iiiigggggg ABBA fan. I hateLady gaga or something indenticaly!

  • I FUCKIN LUV ABBA FOREVER!!!!!!!

  • Another one of their underrated songs.

  • I think you meant 'polygamist' but oh no my friend I would want her all to myself. :D

  • You guys are too late, Agnetha was mine long before you were born. :P

  • @MrRudyjj I'll lure her away. :D

  • @vato61783 Can I have Björn all for myself? :D

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  • @MrRudyjj Nope shes mine ill fight u for her lol

  • Does anyone want to come with me and travel back in time and marry agnetha? :-)

  • @smithhedgehog Count me in. :) But expect alot of competition. lol

  • @vato61783 game on! lol

    Or she can make herself a bigamist and marry us both. :-)

  • I love Agnetha and Frida's voices equally but it upsets me how Frida gets the whole screen during her "so bad" solo and Agnetha doesn't during hers :(

  • I love Agnetha and Frida's voices but it upsets me how Frida gets the whole screen during her "so bad" solo and Agnetha doesn't :(

  • This is probably my favorite ABBA song. I grew up in the 70's, had all the albums, and particularly enjoy the longer version of this sing, around 5 and a half minutes. It's truly awesome, as are all their songs. It's really too bad that nowadays people think you have to be homosexual to like ABBA. Far from it, they are, were, and always will be the best. They sold over 70 million albums, I don't think there were that many gay people around back then. lol.

  • BASS IS BANGIN!!!! WITH SONY MDR-XB500!

  • my song!

  • wowwww!

  • This song reminds me of the "NGO-NGA" relationship we established between "Namilyango" and "Namagunga" colleges in our usual social gatherings.

    It is interesting for me to note that it is now only this song that reminds me of that socialisation that I always cherished very much.

  • i been a abba fan since i was a little girl abba music is so catchy i am so glad all the younger people like them the abba music has stood the test of time. people will be listening for years to come.

  • This looks like ABBA on 'The Mike Yarwood Show'

  • @MrRudyjj -

    "This looks like ABBA on 'The Mike Yarwood Show"

    - No it was actually Mike Yarwood on the 'The ABBA Show' in Sweden.

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  • @KenfromDublin What do you mean?

    This is 'The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show' shown in 1978

    abbaontv.com/1978/description-­mike-yarwood.html

    I MUST have watched this at the time, but I don't remember a damn thing about it :(

  • Love ABBA from Brazil

  • Love ABBA

  • This is not to take anything away from Aggie, but those who say she outshone Frida must need their eyes checked here; her hair in this style was the equal of Aggies, her eyes are better and friendlier, her smile is better, happier and more sincere, her figure is better, or certainly as good (it IS curvier, and her bust is HOT, although I like Aggies straight leg line too), her dancing is better, and her voice as we all know is 100% absolutely as good with its sultry, energetic, meso-soprano.

  • @TheSpiritofAbbaPart3 Absolutely... for me, Frida wins hands down. Never got why people went so ape-sh!t over Agnetha... the blonde hair and the big butt? Pretty silly if you ask me. Frida have a more classically beautful face, a better body overall, a better stage perfomer and dancer & her voice was always pitch perfect. Only drawback I'd give is some of her hairstyles were bad, but she tended to follow trends instead of chosing styles that suited her face. Voulez Vous era was her sexiest look.

  • frida is beautiful and has the best voice in abba

  • Agnetha sexiest girl singer of all time.

  • Awesome song , Frida looks a bit drunk in some of the shots ... my dream girl

  • AMAZING SONG AND BAND!!

  • I want ABBA back! I have a 10 years and I so loooooooooooooooooooove Abba.

  • I love Frida, but she looks like Elaine dancing here. lol

  • @sinker50 - I love Frida too and she is fun unlike the Agnetha. :))

  • Anna is 100% here!!

  • AMAZING SONG AND BAND!!!

  • does anyone remember the groups who had top 10 hits 2 or 3 years ago?More people remember abba from 30 years ago.This wasn't even really a hit but 300,000 people have watched this video.Thank you for the music and long live ABBA

  • This was the best track by far from the Voulez-Vous album. If I posted this on facebook, I would be laughed at! FB is full of Beatles obsessives, I come on here to escape from it.

  • @Feisty1967 I like both ABBA and The Beatles, They are both great.

  • Some guys think Frida cannot match Aggie in appearence, especially in the early years and in the final year. At this mid point of Abba's career that is obviously not true, Frida is 100% the equal of Aggie in appearence.

  • @TheSpiritofAbba

     if u pay attention agnetha's gape between the legs looks just a bit wider...

  • Like Bee Gees, men are doing falsetto.

  • it's incredibly amazing how easy was for them to make successful hits. See how Benny and Björn enjoy this live performance.

  • Frida was hot untill she messed with her hair :( Abba are great so great i luv them

  • This looks to be lip-synced but the version is not the same as on CD. Benny keyboard is different. Frida's are slightly different as well. I love this song. It should have been a single in the US.

  • @mdp617 You are right on both counts!

  • Yes of course Benny and Bjorn did nothing. Agnetha and Frida wrote all the songs played all the instruments and everything else. Then Benny and Bjorn cashed the cheques! WOW! Thats the thruth NOT! The girls admitted: sometimes ther boys would come home after 15-16 hours without a single note. THERE ARE 4 PEOPLE IN ABBA! NOT 2! All of them deserve equal credit. They are all unique in their own way. <3
  • Great music.

  • Completely feeling the lyrics to this one right now ! lol

    " If it wasn't for the nights " says it all, ABBA always helps when you are feeling down :-)

  • Abba rule! I am 19 and have loved them sicne I first ehared them when I was 5. People thougth I was strange. Then Mamma Mia came out and sudenly everyone loves them! They are wodnerful and this is one of my favorite songs from the group! Great job!

  • ABBA ROCKS!!! This is one of my favorites....ok they are all my favorite....I wish music was like this now! Rap and all that other crap doesnt even compare with what ABBA did

  • When i was in my mid/late teens i used to think ABBA were cheesy. But now i cant get enough. They should of released this track it was a good'n, although maybe halved the chourus. Back in my teens i did know one thing, the blonde chick was hot.

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  • From a time when the singers weren't plastic, weren't Surgically lifted and tucked. A time when Musicians actually made music.... I long for those days again....

  • @paulc0356 sadly those days are gone mate at least we still have you tube to relive them :)

  • beautiful

  • Love it love it love it... in fact, anything from ABBA!

  • Why does Agnetha try too hard........she looks very awkward and sometimes that lipbite is annoying!

  • @dazzini82 Because she's a very shy and anxious person. I think that lip bite is a nervous habit that she has and she doesn't even realize she's doing it.

  • @sleazybtd I dont think shes that shy having done so many live shows etc for a good few years before!

  • @dazzini82 well, thats what you THINK

  • @GranTorino68 No thats what I KNOW! LOL!!! If she was that shy then she wouldnt have done the shows or touring!!! Go figure dude!!

  • @dazzini82 i wish it was my lip she was biting sigh

  • @BREN70S I wish I was biting her lip (s) too lol!!!

  • I LOVE this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • great video, never seen!!!!!!!!!!!

  • love this song.. lovely.. awesome.. I dance to dis song... AWESOME

  • Great! This was the intended 7" single mix of the track that was last minute changed to the worldwide release of "Chiquitita", which was chosen because of the unicef gala in New York, where it went it went down a storm. The single of "If it wasnt' for the Nights" was even assigned a catalogue no. by their UK record company Epic. So this is an extremely rare recording, which may turn up on the forthcoming deluxe version of the Voulez-Vous CD in May 2010. Fingers crossed.

  • Enough with the 'disco stigma' associated with loving the music of such mega-talent (Agnetha F., Anni-Fried L., Barry G., etc...); we haven't had anywhere near the same talent since they departed the music industry. Who are their modern day contemporaries? Brittney Spears??? Justin Timberlake??? Come on - we may as well be comparing Mozart with Motley Crue.

  • I can't view this or any other u tube videos because UTube just installed an upgaded flashplayer that can't be downloaded on my ps3 web browser !!U TTube just lost Millions of subscribers ! They could not leave well enough alone and Millions of gamers that use their ps3 as a web browser now cannot stream u tube videos !!!!BUMBER!!!!

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  • Extrememly addictive and beautiful song! Love ABBA with all my heart. Frida is gorgeous<3

  • Aggie has that cute lip bite at 7 seconds

  • @dbrinkm1 Aggie haha

    cutie nickname :D

  • @dbrinkm1 ...so its not just me that likes that...lol

  • mi cel number 116947538 i love abba

  • muzica tineretii, mele,ce nostalgie ma apuca!

  • damn, these girls are good.

  • are they singing live here with some backing track? this version does sound different to the album version. if so, damn good performance

  • @leelshal THey are miming to an earlier version of this song in 1978. The album version had a different mix.

  • @leelshal yeah this sounds live, Abba were one of the best at live performances

  • @leelshal regardless if this isnt live, definately they were good, check abba the movie.

  • Totally delicious ABBA song that deserved to be released as a single and that was the original intention. However upon release of Voulez Vous they decided to release DOES YR MOTHER KNOW in most countries first.

  • does your mother know is pretty great though...

  • I have this on my Ipod..

  • What a great video, thx for sharing! I put it in my favorite list of course.:)

  • Love Agnetha's endearing lip bite at the beginning!

  • What a perfect combination of beautiful voices, beautiful song, and four incredibly talented people. Even the perfect introduction, simply, "ABBA." That was all that needed to be said. What a treasure they were for all of us.

  • I love them! Their songs are just so darn good! Just fantastic, makes me feel soooo good! XXX

  • omg i had this song stuck in my head all day and i was humming it durring school (I'm 13) and my teacher was like "what r u humming?" and I'm like "ABBA" and she's like "what song" i told her and then i got sucked into an "intreging" convo about her 70's days. weird

  • it's great that you are an ABBA fan at your age, i'm behind you 100% for the guts to admit you love them. I'm 19 and people always question why i'm not into any other music besides ABBA, all i say is `there is nothing that matches the impact and quality of ABBA`

  • @davidatcuwclubnet yeah totally agree!

    abba is the best band of all times!

    I'm 14 and I love them!

    yeah people always get shocked when they find out I love these old songs like abba, beatles and elvis

  • @davidatcuwclubnet I'm also 19 and I'm a huge ABBA fan and I don't think it needs guts to admit that...

    I mean they are the best band ever.. more then anything that going on in the MTV today...

    There will never be something like that anymore.

  • @Almog3 abba is class enuff said.

  • @Almog3 They are the biggest pop band of all time

    I mean there were bands that were even bigger but it was like the beatles and rolling stones and stuff... but as far as pop acts go they are the biggest group

    And i never liked the beatles or rolling stones much anyway, so to me Abba is the biggest band of all time XD

  • @NewlycelebritiesTv There are no bigger bands,that's a stupid thing to say.A band value is given by the number of people still in love with their melodies over the years.Beatles and other like them shine for a while and went in history after that (personally I don't even like their stupid flat british type of music,but if many people said they were great u take this for granted).But Abba's music still remain in people hearts.And probably will be there for many centuries to come.

  • @mircea5x yeah but everything u just said can also be said about the beatles and rolling stones... there are many die hard fans for those bands too

    And anyway i think it was very clear that i was refering to success as in sales, charts etc... i wasnt talking about how much ppl might still like them or not

  • Well, honey, those days beat the living hell out of any and everything today. There is nothing weird about someone, especially a teacher, telling you about a better era filled with interesting people and ground breaking groups like ABBA. The only thing weird is a 13 year-old who does not know enough to appreciate what an older person was trying to tell her. At least, your taste in music, i.e., ABBA, is good.

  • well when i say weird, i mostly mean how in detaiil she went for talking to a 7th grader in the middle of class

  • I understand. I also teach, but at university level. I suppose that what is at odds here is our definitions of the word, weird. What was the name of the course she was teaching?

  • acc. pre algebra lol

  • i love this song so much

  • somehow never get bored with this song ;-)

  • A so precious footage...

  • breaking through and very smooth as a group could be today

  • This is an album track, and really should have been released as a single.

  • Is any other group so loved by their fans as ABBA? SOooooo many great comments on every ABBA video. They were truly special.

    I think this is the longest hair picture I've ever seen of Agnetha.

  • look up plp need love by abba agnetha hair rellay long !

  • Frida's hair is an ABBA timeline lol and judging by it here id say it was 1978. Frida looks soo pretty here. :)

  • I think I'd be doing alright if it wasn't for the nights... :( too true.

  • Cool. Thanks.

  • Does anyone know what year this clip is from? '76? '77?

  • This clip is from the year 1979 when ABBA stood at it's peak of fame & popularity.

  • Probs late '78 or '79.. This song was released on their 1979 album Voulez-Vous

  • abba, clap clap clap clap

  • they all were sure having alot of fun performing this song!

  • What a song. I LOVE YOU ABBA THEY ARE THE BEST GROUP IN THE WORLD (L)(L)(L)  ABBA FOREVER

  • yeaaaah!

  • so trueee mann nice comment fridas the best xoxo i luv yooh frida

  • I love ABBA"s lip-sync shows8) Especially when Bjorn sings by female voice....^^()

  • Imortal ABBA, carved on my heart forever, love you!!!

  • i don't know, something tell me that this song is differten to if it...... from the Album. i can hear with more potential the benny's piano in 01:38 than the record studio version, (i think in the video version deleted the violins)and listen the agnetha and frida voices, it's so different that record studio.

  • 2 coupels in love during this period, thats why the ABBA magic can be so evidently heard,, andseen,,, on all 4 face's, AgnethaBennyBjornAnnifrid. They ruled the 70's and early 80's......Pure magic for the eyes and ears.

  • Frida was stunning. :) altho she still beautiful.

  • You mean Agnetha. ^-^

  • No! I mean FRIDA!!! <3

  • They were both stunning.

  • tHIS IS GOOD WITH THE SWING STEP AND THE GROUP LOOKS AS A WHOLE, NO STAND-OUTS THE TOTAL PACKAGE, WONDWERFUL SONGS OF COURSE! ((O:

  • ABBA The Best Poo group of all time.

    Agnetha e Frida BEAUTIFUUUUUL GIRLS!!

    Grandissimi, Li AMO!!

  • This is when Frida looked stunning

  • although not, it is new.....

  • gorgeous girls and gorgeous harmonies, ABBA at their best

  • Eu amooooooooooooooooooooooooo

  • soooo goood

  • i LOVE abba!

  • You brought us to much happy and made our lives colored....fan of you forever! God bless you all!!! joe from brazil!!!

  • great video i love this song well done go frida xoxoxoxxoxox

  • This was going to be released as a single but the record company said no! Shame I love it! ty

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  • It was a single in some country,s they had to much material to choose from, they would be their own concurents in the charts so to speak ;-) Happens to more artist, thrown of the first place by an other hit by them selves;-)

  • thanks for uploading this. i made a version with improved audio if you wanna take a look. (hope you don't mind me ripping your video!)

  • i'm 19 so unfortunately i wasn't around when ABBA were a group. ABBA's music tops everything else and it's great that there are some young fans out there like me.

  • really good music and im only 17teen

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  • its to bad

  • Both ladies are so harmonious! Sweet Angel Agnetha & Hot Element Frida ;)

    Benny and Bjorn are great musicians and writers. I still belive that ABBA will give us a one more show :)

  • i gave u thumbs up because i want u to learn from your mistakes

  • they lip synced for tv performances, but sung live on tour....just type in giime gimme live or something like that.

  • great song loved it(;

  • first time ive seen benny with a stratocaster guitar :P

  • never released a single...but should have been....Frida always tried to ' out- do' Agnetha with her 'moves' but you look back sometimes and wonder whatever she was thinking......oh well...best music EVER......

  • I can't stop crying. ABBA needs to come back. :(