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Released | September 1975 | |||
Recorded | 12 March 1975 | |||
Studio | Metronome, Stockholm, Sweden | |||
Genre | Europop, pop rock[1] | |||
Length | 3:35 | |||
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"Mamma Mia" is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA, written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, with the lead vocals shared by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. It is the opening track on the group's third album, the self-titled ABBA (1975). The song was released in September 1975 as its sixth single. It tells the story of the narrator's on-again, off-again relationship with a lover who is repeatedly unfaithful to her. The song's name is derived from Italian and literally translates as "my mother", but is used as an interjection in situations of surprise, anguish, or excitement. The song was ABBA's first number one in the UK since "Waterloo" in 1974.
...to pull its own second single, "Mamma Mia," off the album. This far more appealing pop/rock number followed its predecessor...