ABBA - Pick a bale of cotton (DJ Tony's extended version)

In 1975, ABBA were approached to contribute to an album entitled Stars Im Zeichen Eines Guten Sterns (Artists In The Sign Of A Good Star). This was a West German charity album, the proceeds of which went to the battle against cancer. The idea was that all participating artists should record medleys of folk songs that were in the public domain as far as copyright was concerned. Accordingly, no proceeds from sales of the album would disappear to song writing royalties.

The songs ABBA chose for their contribution were American folk tunes: Pick A Bale Of Cotton, On Top Of Old Smokey and Midnight Special. Björn had of course started his career in music as a member of the Hootenanny Singers, who originally played nothing but American folk music. They were songs that both Benny and I liked, recalled Björn of the medley, and they were perhaps especially close to my heart, since it was the type of repertoire that we had in the Hootenanny Singers.
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Read more here about the songs: http://www.abbasite.com/articles/articles/the-folk-medley--abbas-rare-cover-v...

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[abbafanglosuk]

DJ Tony has made a very good job of this remix Elin - it sounds really nice! And you've picked a good bunch of pics too, with plenty of variety!

[SADL00KINM00N]

Glad you liked it John, thank you for the kind comment!:)

[SheerFolly]

haha Elin every time I hear someone do this song i think of steve Martin in The Jerk lol if you have seen it you'll know why. anyway, great job by ABBA on this cover and i luv your vid, great post :))

[SADL00KINM00N]

Thanks Harold, I recognise the title..! 'Supernollan' is the Swedish title I believe, many years since I watched it though... But Steve Martin is so funny, he's done lots of great films for many decades!

[abbalook]

very very job 1000*

[SADL00KINM00N]

thank you for that!:))

[billybareblu]

LMAO! LUVSIT!

[Pumpapickels]

This is very good. :)

I like so much!

5 stars!

[SheerFolly]

I was hoping Elin had seen it, Shay, that pick a bale sequence is soooo good and well sung too, i started smiling the minute i started watching Elin's vid :)

BTW, Elin, 5* fav for your vid, I forgot !! :))

[2Shaymcn]

Great movie Harold, 'Man with two brains' another favourite!

[cessnaace]

I hear tell that there is a maximum limit to the number of videos one can have in their favorites. I hope it's not true, because everything that you upload is a future favorite.

STAY AWESOME! :)