Mamma Mia (ABBA song)

"Mamma Mia"
Danish vinyl single
Single by ABBA
from the album ABBA
B-side	"Intermezzo No. 1" "Hey, Hey Helen" (Australia) "Tropical Loveland" (UK, Canada, US)
Released	September 1975
Recorded	12 March 1975
Studio	Metronome, Stockholm, Sweden
Genre	Europop, pop rock[1]
Length	3:35
Label	Polar (Denmark) Epic (UK) Atlantic (Canada, US) Carnaby (Spain) Polydor (Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland) RCA Victor (Australia) Disques Vogue (Belgium)
Songwriter(s)	Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus Stig Anderson
Producer(s)	Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus
ABBA singles chronology
"SOS" (1975) "Mamma Mia" (1975) "Rock Me" (1976)
Music video
"Mamma Mia" on YouTube

"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 (Mamma mia!) in situations of surprise, anguish, or excitement. The song was ABBA's first number one in the UK since "Waterloo" in 1974.