Ring Ring (album)

Untitled

Ring Ring is the first album by Swedish singing group ABBA, released in 1973 in Scandinavia and a limited number of other territories, including Australia, South Africa and Mexico (see 1973 in music). The album was re-released in Australasia in 1975 (different cover [1]), and wasn't released in the United Kingdom until 1992 and the United States until 1995. The re-release artwork for the album (shown right) uses the name "ABBA", though in fact at the time of the original album's release, the name ABBA had not yet been coined. The original album is awkwardly credited to "Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha & Frida". Ring Ring has been reissued in digitally remastered form three times; first in 1997, then in 2001 and again in 2005 as part of the The Complete Studio Recordings box set.

Track listing

1. "Ring Ring" (Andersson, Stig Anderson, Ulvaeus, Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody) – 3:06
2. "Another Town, Another Train" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 3:13
3. "Disillusion" (Fältskog, Ulvaeus) – 3:07
4. "People Need Love" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 2:46
5. "I Saw It In The Mirror" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 2:34
6. "Nina, Pretty Ballerina" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 2:53
7. "Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 2:55
8. "Me And Bobby And Bobby's Brother" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 2:52
9. "He Is Your Brother" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 3:19
10. "She's My Kind Of Girl" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 2:45
11. "I Am Just A Girl" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 3:03
12. "Rock'n Roll Band" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 3:11

Ring Ring was remastered and reissued in 1997 with the same track listing

Ring Ring was remastered and reissued in 2001 with three bonus tracks:

13. "Merry-Go-Round" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 3:26
14. "Santa Rosa" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 3:01
15. "Ring Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal)" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 3:10

Ring Ring was remastered and reissued again in 2005 as part of the The Complete Studio Recordings box set with several bonus tracks:

13. "Ring Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal)" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 3:08
14. "Åh, Vilka Tider" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 2:33
    • B-side of "Ring Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal)".
15. "Merry-Go-Round" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 3:26
    • B-side of "People Need Love".
16. "Santa Rosa" (Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 3:01
    • B-side of "He Is Your Brother".
17. "Ring Ring (Spanish Version)" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus, Doris Band) – 3:01
18. "Wer Im Wartesaal Der Liebe Steht" (Andersson, Ulvaeus, Fred Jay) – 3:21
    • German version of "Another Town, Another Train", B-side of "Ring Ring (German Version)".
19. "Ring Ring (German Version)" (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus, Peter Lach) – 3:09

Personnel

ABBA

• Benny Andersson – piano, keyboards, vocals, mellotron
• Agnetha Fältskog – vocals
• Anni-Frid Lyngstad – vocals
• Björn Ulvaeus – acoustic guitar, guitar, vocals

Additional personnel

• Ola Brunkert – drums
• Rutger Gunnarsson – electric bass
• Roger Palm – drums
• Janne Schaffer – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Mike Watson – electric bass

Production

• Producers: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
• Photography: Rolf Adlercreutz
• Engineer: Michael B. Tretow
• Assistant engineers: Björn Almstedt, Lennart Karlsmyr, Rune Persson
• Remastering: Jon Astley, Michael B. Tretow
• String arrangements: Sven-Olof Walldoff
• Photography: Bengt H. Malmqvist

Links

• Site showing various 'Ring Ring' Releases [2]