ABBA singles

[jedichad]

I was reading an interesting thread on an ABBA forum that I couldn't help but find myself agreeing with. I've always felt that ABBA made some poor single choices during 1981-1982. It can't all be laid at the Swedish quartet's feet as Epic usually pushed for certain songs to be issued as single A-sides. If things had been different, I have no doubt

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Just some weird trivia about The Visitors

[starshine24mc]

That particular song was a monster hit in gay bars, bigger even than Dancing Queen. Most gay clubs have a "signature classic" that will get played at some point in the night, even though it's not some "of the moment" fluff like Feist or Beyonce or Christina, or whoever is the song of choice at the time. Some of those songs include YMCA, or Go West (PSB) or Copacabana (Manilow) or things like that. When I was travelling around Canada and the US in the early nineties, I heard The Visitors in bars all over, including Regina, Vancouver and Minneapolis. DJs I talked to said it was their bar's classic, and it always packed the dance floor. So it was a sekrit hit in some ways!

I was always a big fan of On and On and On, which was also a big club hit...

Cheers!

Re: Just some weird trivia about The Visitors

[jedichad]

Hearing that absolutely warms my heart! I did a little checking and both "The Visitors" and "On and On and On" were issued as singles in the US/Canada (in place of their mainstream singles "Head Over Heels" and "Lay All Your Love On Me" in other countries). You're absolutely spot on: they both turned out to be big club hits :)