Pina Colada song

[Cosmicman]

My brother and I had an X-rated lyric version of that song that we used to sing because we hated that song. I won't post the lyrics here for obvious reasons but if you want a laugh, hit me up and I will tell you about it. One of our friends got banned from a karaoke night for singing it like that. Funny in our little world I guess.

[megocrazy]

My wife has "Afternoon Delight" on her Zune. I like a lot of the soft rock stuff but not that one. ABBA too. Can't stand them. Dancing Queen makes me want to rip the heads off fuzzy bunnies. I am a huge Hall & Oates fan though. Saw them a few weeks ago for like the fourth time. Still as good as they were in the 80's.

[Mikey]

ABBA is the best .........

If someone don't like ABBA, stay far away from me.

[Brue]

The actual title is Escape

I sent my wife a few lines when we were mad at each other about 7 years ago.

It worked. Corny. But it remains one of songs to this day.

[monkey tennis]

ABBA is the best .........

If someone don't like ABBA, stay far away from me.

I like ABBA, but don't tell anybody.
(Wish I could do that backwards 'B')

[huedell]

My wife has "Afternoon Delight" on her Zune. I like a lot of the soft rock stuff but not that one. ABBA too. Can't stand them. Dancing Queen makes me want to rip the heads off fuzzy bunnies. I am a huge Hall & Oates fan though. Saw them a few weeks ago for like the fourth time. Still as good as they were in the 80's.

Hall & Oates? They're "hard enough" lite-rock to almost be respectable to
serious rock dudes! (Compared to ABBA, SVB, Rupert Holmes, Air Supply etc.)

[Mikey]

ABBA Waterloo -- in German

Fantastic...... in any language

YouTube - ABBA - Waterloo [German Language Version]

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[huedell]

I have just about everything ABBA ever released---big fan.

[Cosmicman]

ABBA didn't perform "Afternoon Delight"

That was the Starlight Vocal band. I think they had their own show on television. Remembering seeing it as a kid. It was so horrifying. I can't decide which show was worse, that or Hee Haw.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I remember seeing on a "One Hit Wonder" show that David Letterman actually worked on the short-lived Starland Vocal Band show. The fact that such a band with one hit could get a TV show in the 70s speaks volumes about what could get on TV back then. Of course, most reality TV is far worse...

I had to inform a co-worker what "Afternoon Delight" meant one day. She was totally clueless.

The "Escape" Pina Colada singer was a perfect example of a pre-MTV artist that had no chance once video took hold. I saw him on the same "One Hit Wonder" show, and that poor guy looked like such a dork. Catchy, if somewhat annoying song. I have trouble thinking the couple in the song would both laugh off the fact that they were about to commit adultery and make up.

Chris

[grayhank]

ABBA is great! Why is it whenever somebody doesn't like them they always mention "Dancing Queen". They had some very respectable songs IMHO: The Name of The Game; Knowing Me Knowing You, When All Is Said And Done, SOS. Try listening to the album cut of "Eagle". One of the best ABBA songs ever recorded and I consider it their masterpiece. They are a great Pop band, not in the ranks of some others, but they were ahead of their time as far as their sound goes. Their vocals and instrumentations were always masterfully produced and engineered. It's too bad that because of "Dancing Queen" they are usually catagorized as a "disco" band when they are actually pioneers of the more progressive "Euro-Sound". And they were also funny as heck going down on the Titantic in an SNL skit when they were the featured band.

What people fail to realize about the 70s radio is that there were NO basic formats to what they played. You would hear anything from a rock song to country to disco to soul to pop. It was all uniquely blended together. Now most radio stations will only play one style of music per station. It gets boring.

Some useless trivia:

The Starland Vocal Band: They started out as John Denver's backup singers on "Take Me Home Country Roads".

Rupert Holmes wrote for and worked with Barbara Streisand for many years before making his own album which contained 3 Top 40 hits. Escape, Him and Answering Machine.

One of Air Supply's biggest hits (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All) was written and produced by Jim Steinman the man who wrote all the songs on Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell album as well as many of his other albums. Meat Loaf's career dive bombed when he decided not to use Steinman for his 3rd album. Steinman released the album himself called "Bad For Good" and it yielded the hit "Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through" which Meat Loaf finally recorded years later when the two worked together again.

[megoat]

What people fail to realize about the 70s radio is that there were NO basic formats to what they played. You would hear anything from a rock song to country to disco to soul to pop. It was all uniquely blended together. Now most radio stations will only play one style of music per station. It gets boring.

I totally disagree. The 1970's marked the end for the little guy and the beginning of an industry completely dominated by a few major corporate record labels. It became nearly impossible for little labels to thrive like they did in the 50's and 60's. By the 1970's, radio became the bland homogenized crud it is today......

[Adam West]

ABBA is the best .........

If someone don't like ABBA, stay far away from me.

I'm also a big fan of ABBA and even saw the Broadway show Mama Mia! which was excellent.

I really liked the way they blended all of ABBA's most well known songs into a storyline. Sounds kind of corny but it worked and it is the only time I have ever seen people from the audience up and dancing to songs by the end of the show.

[grayhank]

I totally disagree. The 1970's marked the end for the little guy and the beginning of an industry completely dominated by a few major corporate record labels. It became nearly impossible for little labels to thrive like they did in the 50's and 60's. By the 1970's, radio became the bland homogenized crud it is today......

That's just plain wrong. Looking at the 100 Top Singles from 1975 alone, here are ALL the record labels present for that year:

RCA
A&M
Capitol
MCA
TK
Midland International
ABC/Dot
Asylum
Epic
Elektra
Playboy
Motown
Rocket
RSO
Avco
Warner Brothers
Curtom
Private Stock
Mercury
Atlantic
20th Century
Columbia
Grunt
Bell
Warner/Curb
Tamla
Chelsea
Anchor
Apple
Roadshow
T-Neck
UA
GRC
Fantasy
Shelter
EMI
Arista
Swan Song
Buddah
Wooden Nickel
MGM
Big Tree
Claridge
Spring
Rak

Now looking at the Top 100 Singles of 1956. The first five labels combined are over half of the 100 singles:

RCA (11 mentions)
Columbia (11 mentions)
Dot (10 mentions)
Capitol (8 mentions)
Mercury (13 mentions)
Era
Decca
King
Imperial
Liberty
Coral
Fraternity
Gee
Luniverse
Glory
ABC
MGM
Cadence
Speciality
Atlantic
Vik
London
DeLuxe
Verve
RPM
Modern
Sun
Aladdin

[megocrazy]

ABBA didn't perform "Afternoon Delight"

That was the Starlight Vocal band. I think they had their own show on television. Remembering seeing it as a kid. It was so horrifying. I can't decide which show was worse, that or Hee Haw.

I know. I'm almost disgusted with myself that I know but, I was just saying in addition to "Afternoon Delight" ABBA is another band I just can't handle listening to. My wife plays them all the time as she was a teen during the disco/nightclub times and just can't get enough of them. Along with the Bee Gee's, and all those other disco favorite's. If I hear "I will Survive" once more I may not survive!! I can't even stay home when she's cleaning the house because she cranks up the stereo and there's no where I can go that I can't hear it. Thank God I got her hooked on the Barenaked Ladies so at least we can find a happy medium to listen to once in a while. I actually had to buy her a record player so she can play her old records with all the scratchy sounding music goodness they supposedly offer.