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Strong Songs

"Dancing Queen" by ABBA

Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

Music Commentary, Music, Musicreviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It's time to get lost in the bittersweet beats of ABBA's 1976 hit "Dancing Queen." STRONG SONGS ON PATREON Strong Songs has a Patreon! If you liked this episode (or, you know, any of them), we hope you'll consider supporting the show. Learn more here: https://www.patreon.com/strongsongs YOU CAN DANCE, YOU CAN JIVE On this longer-than-usual episode, Kirk tries to tease out some of the things that make this song so iconic and enduring, from its lush arrangement to its clever harmonies, repeating melodic motifs, and maximalist audio production. Band/Artist: ABBA Album: Arrival, 1976 Composed by: Benny Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Stig Anderson Produced by: Stig Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify NEWSLETTER/MAILING LIST Sign up for Kirk's mailing list to start getting monthly-ish newsletters with music recommendations, links, news, and extra thoughts on new Strong Songs episodes: https://kirkhamilton.substack.com/subscribe STRONG MERCH! Visit the Strong Songs merch store for some very cool t-shirts, mugs, totes, and more: store.strongsongspodcast.com

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0:18.8

Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcast About Music. I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and as always I'm so glad that you've joined me to talk about that weird combination of harmony and rhythm that we call music and what makes it so great. Thanks to everyone who's been listening, who's been sharing the show and spreading the word.

0:22.0

We've got thousands of people listening to the show now,

0:23.8

which is really cool.

0:25.0

I feel like there were many thousands more who would probably like it

0:27.6

if they knew about it.

0:28.5

So as always, if you know someone who you think would like it,

0:31.2

spread the word.

0:32.0

Tell your friends, tell musicians that you know,

0:34.4

tell anybody who you think might dig this show. I really want to get it out there. And so far, it's been, you know,

0:39.7

the listenership has been increasing with everybody who listens to the show which is really cool.

0:43.3

So let's keep that going.

0:44.6

Tell people who you think might dig the show and yeah help me get it out there.

0:48.9

Thanks again to the people who sent the questions that I featured on last episode which was a

0:52.4

Q&A episode. I had a lot of fun making that

0:55.1

episode and it sounds like a lot of listeners liked it, so that's very cool. I'll definitely

0:59.2

plan to do another one of those in the future. As always, if you want to send in questions,

1:04.4

you can email them.

1:05.4

That's probably the easiest way is to email them.

1:07.1

Email them to Strong Songs Podcast at gmail.

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You can also tweet them at me.

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I'm at Kirk Hamilton,'s K I R K Hamilton on

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Twitter but email is probably just the easiest way for me to keep track of

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