Welcome to ABBA Tuesday! Today, for your listening pleasure/amusement, I give you "Chiquitita." There is a much more amusing video on YouTube, where the Swedish Fab Four are singing this with a snowman (!?) in the background, apparently for a Christmas special, but I couldn't embed it here. There is also a brilliant Mamma Mia! movie parody by the wonderful & fabulous Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders that features a great take on this song, but I can't embed that either, but it's worth a poke around on YouTube to find it. Hillarious. Almost as funny as that Xmas special footage. Seriously.
ABBA recognized that this song was not like the other pop music that they had so far been doing (this one comes from January 1979, I was a little over a month old!) but Benny Andersson notes, in the book "Mamma Mia! How Can I Resist You" "You should never be afraid of trying out weird stuff because that's when it becomes music & something worth listening to, rather than always following the mainstream."
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