Gemini - Ghost Town

Gemini are a Swedish brother and sister duo, consisting of Karin Glenmark and Anders Glenmark. The duo released two original albums: Gemini (1985) and Geminism (1987). Both albums reached the Swedish Top 20, while their success was limited to Scandinavia. Their only truly international release was the single "Just Like That" (formerly recorded and, as yet, officially unreleased by ABBA).

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[nromk]

wow I at last understand what this song is talking about the driver stops in a ghost town at night in the winter the car wont start and the driver looks at there own death amazing

[harrymclaine]

Love this song, pity that I couldn´t find it on their compilation cd. Have it on an old vinyl only. All the Abba elements are in their place, as noted below: Summer Night City, One Night in Bangkok, The day before You came... The recipe works and we have here a great pop song, unfortunately did not receive the popularity or air play it should have.. The Glenmarks are still today great artists and musicians. Would like to hear Karin sing, any new songs from her?

[discogareth]

I think other similarities to One night in bangkok, are that its also the same singers, Anders sang the chorus with Karin on backing. The backing track arrangement is also very similar.

[Heizilaz]

@MagnaYu

[MagnaYu]

@woutch Anyhow, a big:-'Thanks Bjorn for the lyrics'; need to go now, it's 1.24 am here; nice talking to you and best regards;

[woutch]

@MagnaYu. Makes sense, except for "Candy from a baby". This is not an English phrase, it's an American one! We don't call it "candy" in Britain!

[MagnaYu]

@woutch Another thing- The english phrases that Bjorn uses in the lyrics ('Head over heels', 'The name of the game', 'shooting a sitting duck', 'taking candy from a baby'..and MANY others, in almost every ABBA song) helped me a lot in my learning English phrases when I was younger; I adore his lyrics and many of his phrases I use today in various situations-:)), and thus sometimes impress people around; Regards;

[MagnaYu]

@woutch well...yes-:)), now when I 'played' the 2 songs in my mind I found some similarity. Also, I would add here 'Why did it have to be me' (versus) being used partially to create the great 'Like an Angel passing through my room'. Do you think so?

[woutch]

@MagnaYu Oh, I totally agree. I adore everything about B&B (well, except for them being producers of that awful stage show Mamma Mia!). I find, as a student of their music, I hear so many phrases and melody lines re-used. It happens a lot in the BAO recordings and also in their musicals too. It's a bit of a game for me to spot it.

Apart from the obvious I'm An A becoming I Know Him So Well and Hovas Vittne becoming Merano, can you hear Thank You For The Music in Someone Else's Story?

[MagnaYu]

@woutch oops, sorry, for my phonetic writting, 'swollow' should be ""swallow""; cheers;