ABBA In Vietnam | My Experience
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- Today, I want to share with you my experience of witnessing ABBA in Vietnam. A little video of a slightly different kind.
0:00 Intro
0:31 ABBA In Vietnam
1:21 Impressions
2:52 The Beauty & Eternity Of ABBA
3:02 Your Experience
3:17 Outro
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Written, narrated, recorded & edited by Bobby’s Brother.
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Another ABBA/Asia experience - I lived in Taipei, Taiwan way back in 1987-88 studying abroad for a year of college, and it was there that I finally was able to purchase a cassette version of Agnetha's "Eyes of a Woman" album, as it was unavailable to purchase in the US in those pre-internet days. As it happened, during that year Agnetha also released her "I Stand Alone" album, and her Peter Cetera duet "I Wasn't the One (To Say Goodbye)" ended up being a top-10 hit on the Taiwan pop charts in June 1988!
While in Sydney, Australia many years ago, I also saw an ABBA poster near the TV tower.
We all know that ABBA is very popular there. What's more, in the same Sydney I bought the CD ABBA the Album.
I'll share a second comment that ABBA's Spanish versions of their songs are indeed really popular in Latin America, even after all of these years. On a more personal note, my husband Alan and his family are all from Venezuela, and one of his aunts's favorite songs was the Spanish version of "Chiquitita." She herself was an amateur singer, and would sing this song out and about in Venezuela. This aunt tragically passed away last year from cancer in June. Alan and I went to see the Voyage show in London two months ago, and of course he was in tears during Chiquitita thinking about his late aunt.
I visited Vietnam 2010 and on the tourist bus radio ABBA was played over and over - I loved the fact how popular the Super Swedes are down there! ❤
I visited Vietnam in 2019 too but didn’t see ABBA. However, earlier in the year, I visited Peru and ABBA was everywhere. When I exited the airport and got on the bus, “Felicidad” was playing on the radio. And in the streets of the old city area of Lima, I heard a pan flutist playing “Chiquitita.” And “Chiquitita” was played in a restaurant later that day. It was only there that I could truly appreciate the reach that their Spanish language album had in Latin America.
And that was from a group that had ceased releasing records since 1982.Now this is really big deal and one more reason proving what a phenomenon Abba is.
in My city and country
Buenos Aires, Argentina
"Chiquitita" is still the hymn of ABBA
their Most successful song
in spanish was a banger hit
and in a few days
two musical will be premier here
"Mamma Mia" (in spanish)
and "Waterloo"
Latino America loves ABBA, too bad the group didn't visit us😢... But we all still love ABBA❤. Greetings from México 🇲🇽👋🥰
@@dianaramirez3468
ABBA didn't tour anymore in 1980
remember that in the earliest 80s there's a lot of military governaments in LatínAmerica , with poors economies
and ABBA was a family, not only a group
@@eduardooscar309 Hello, I mean when they were touring in USA, CANADÁ... they only visited that cities😔No Mexico, Argentina, etc... Thanks for your answer😊
The Beatles and ABBA ...it doesn't get better than that.
I know from comments i've read by Vietnamese fans that Abba's 'Happy New Yearr" is kind of a national Anthem EVERY single NYE in Vietnam..If u dear people from there read this comment plz confirm or not.
I live in Canada, but yes I always play that song on NYE
Yes !! I am from the US and we play this beautiful gem every NYE and in between . 👍❤️
I was in Vietnam twice with TET (Vietnamese lunar new year). Around that time you here but almost everywhere Happy New Year from ABBA playing... I think it is their most popular song over there...
Hello BB, and thanks always! I was in Vietnam with the US ARMY in 69-70 and ABBA unfortunately didn’t exist yet or else we would have been playing the Hell out of it. At that time i do know the Vietnamese were fond of Elvis , Beetles and the Beach Boys.
One time when we had break from the Combat scene, we had a Tribute Band for Bee Gees back at the firebase, and man that felt so good. It felt like being back home and guess what, i was able to live and experience our beloved ABBA years later. We pray for the unfortunate ones who paid the ultimate sacrifice who never had the ABBA experience. ❤ 🙏
I’ve never visited Vietnam, but I have a weird and similar experience where I thought ABBA was virtually everywhere!
It happened five months ago in London. I was there with a good friend of mine on my very first overseas trip in almost a decade. We went to England specifically to see ABBA Voyage, and naturally, and every advertisement of the show was around us. On billboards, and buses, on the tube. By the time we hit our Airbnb in Soho, we heard glimpses of “Mamma Mia” in the streets, and even performers doing their own renditions of “Dancing Queen” to the delight of the Christmas crowd in Chinatown.
It was as if ABBA knew we were there for them. All the while I kept thinking “Ok, we got it. You don’t have to tempt us anymore. We actually DO want to see you!”.
The climax of our trip was, of course, the show. It left such a massive imprint on me that I want to relive it again. Hopefully this year, I’ll be able to do it or sometime before the end of their London run.
I’ll never forget that moment! Thanks for sharing your Vietnam experience, BB! The sights are a beauty.
I'm hoping Voyage will come to Australia, and that I'll live long enough to see it. I can no longer travel.
❤🎉❤ABBA s'est fait un nom partout dans le monde et cette vidéo en est une preuve🎉❤🎉
Dziekuje bardzo B.B. za fantastyczny i interesujacy filmik ❤
When I was in Hà Nội for Tết 1996 there was suddenly a short segment about ABBA on the TV news, squeezed in between news about trade unions and production quotas. It reminded me of something similar in Brazil a few years earlier, and how my sister heard their music everywhere in Cape Town in 1976. I don't understand why they were mentioned, but the Vietnamese seem to like them better than the Americans do. And I like Vietnamese pop myself quite a lot.
Thanks for sharing the Vietnam video! I never imagined it looking this way, and ABBA and The Beatles in the same prestigious manner. How cool. :)
I moved from my hometown near London to Manchester up north ,and quickly discovered a spray painting of Agnetha Faltskog on a wall in my new neighbourhood. It was still there, but defaced when I moved back south 17 years later.
Wow!So touching this.Who knows someone must have been very much in love with her.
@@alexioverdo5225 Guess so. Also in Manchester I discover the man I was serving beer to in a bar for years was in the children's choir on the I Have A Dream recording. Surreal !
Que hermoso viaje! Y que bella sorpresa❤. Me emociona porque me sucede de manera frecuente encontrar la magia de ABBA. Por ejemplo en un viaje a Punta Cana (República Dominicana), entrar a un bar y escuchar Dancing Queen. También estar en el campo donde la radio llega con escasa señal y de pronto suena la vos de Agnetha (The Winner...). Y así tengo miles de vivencias. Es mágico! Gracias por permitirnos intercambiar emociones. Cariños. Clau Vivian❤🇦🇷 🇸🇪
Travelled 6 weeks around Vietnam and my life-long favourites,ABBA were indeed there....on a loop in many hotels, restaurants etc! Happy New Year was the theme track of the trip and was so funny. I did not expect to hear them there but boy, did I! It was the lead up to Tet but still amusing. What a country!
Thank you very much B.B.for sharing your fantastic experience and yes it is my firm belief that A B.B.A.and their music have touched every part of this universe, blessings and love from Trinidad
Wow, beautiful video, thanks BB for sharing. I saw ABBA pictures in the wall of the subway when I visited Santiago in Chile, last November..I couldn't belive it!! Greetings from MÉXICO 🇲🇽🥰
Le Vietnam est un très beau pays et c'est sympa de voir une photo de ABBA et de savoir qu'ils sont connus et apprécier dans le monde entier . Merci BB d'avoir partagé cette jolie vidéo
How beatiful! This proves how pop and loved ABBA is around the world and will be forever.
That is just sooooo cool, seeing a poster like that so unexpectedly ! Wonderful BB. And very grateful to you for sharing your personal pictures which are beautifully filmed by the way. Love the monkey at the end and hope your camera is ok 😂.
Tks!
Splendid! 🎍🧧🎎🎋🛕⛩️
What a wonderful video, Bobby's Brother. Your footage of Vietnam is stunning, such a beautiful country. Thanks for sharing your ABBA experience with us. 🎉 🇸🇪 🇻🇳
Yeah…Im a big fan in Vietnamese. I love Abba. Vietnamese love Abba. We are a big Abba Family :)
Well this was absolutely wonderful, relaxing and lovely..all the while paying tribute to our ABBA, who are indeed everywhere. My own experience was on a Norwegian Cruise trip one year. I saw that there was going to be some sort of ABBA event, so I decided to go, expecting it to be cheesy, silly and boring. Was I wrong. If you can picture this: it was on the outside deck. As I approached the area, I heard the unmistakable sounds of ABBA in full stereo. I couldn't quite figure out what was to be. Then I saw it...There was a HUGE, I mean astonishingly huge screen projecting their videos, fifty feet high. Every known video played, one after the other. But that wasn't the beautiful part. What was stunning to me were the HUNDREDS of people watching, dancing and singing to each and every song, not caring how silly we looked, not caring if we could sing or dance. I can't explain it, but it was one of those nearly perfect moments in life that will never be duplicated. I was in tears, because I've been such a fan since 1976, and because when I was a fan back then, ABBA was still trying to make its way into the US market. So I was often by myself in my hero worship. So to experience ABBA with so many fans, so many years later was a joy to me. Thank you for sharing this video. We SO get it!!
Cheesy,pap,kitsch,commercial,etc,or not i 'll just stick to a comment i recently read from a fellow fan and that's a good answer to some of Abba's critical voices....he kinda wrote "which other band could unite 3-4 Gens all together and enjoy simultaneously ' their music so easily not even The Beatles or the Stones".So well said.And your comment also sticks to others who have claimed that whenever an Abba tribute act perform they atract a good amount of crowd there too.
@@christianoazzuro6711 It's true. We were all ages, just dancing, singing and having fun to their videos. It wasn't even an ABBA tribute band..it was just their videos! It was a fabulous moment in my life! When I say cheesy, etc., I did not mean them. I thought the EVENT itself was going to be a cheap, silly imitation of them and I wasn't interested in seeing that. But when I got there, and saw their videos play and hundreds of people dancing, it was wonderful!
@@supertrouper2550Oh ! Yes my friend i get how you meant the word cheesy.I totally connect with your explanation.I was refering to the ones who back then used 'cheesy" and such words in a prejudiced way.And all these in order to be critical and mock them and us fans.Some really meant it/felt it literally and i understand this cause many times music affect and vibe differently to each one of us.That's a matter of taste and emotion.But not liking an artist's music and not respect the ones who do, by getting offensive in order to humiliate is unfair and what i really make me sad,that';s all.
@@supertrouper2550 p's or to put it another way it's called 'bullying".
Btw your profile name reflects the epitome of how a mellow-perfect pure pop music song should sound like,....imao....ha!ha!
@@christianoazzuro6711 They got NO respect back in the day by critics, music fans. At least in the States here. People around the world loved them. I loved them, but I could never find books, buttons, posters..couldn't even find the opening day for ABBA the Movie. It was horrible. So I am seeing now the love and respect and asking myself BUT WHERE WERE YOU ALL YEARS AGO! lol
That’s really Beautiful! Thank you.
beautiful video, dear friend
Thank you for sharing your experience with us
I was excited to see
The Beatles and ABBA
my youth group and my adulthood group
I also liked seeing images of some waterfalls
(in My country Argentina we have the impressive Iguazú Falls, one of the Wonders of the world)
what a great video. what a beautiful nature abba is realy every where famous. beautiful video. Vietnam a country with a lot of history.etc.
That was fun! Thank you for sharing your film from Beautiful Vietnamese. Did you eat at that restaurant with ABBA staring at you? 😄
Thank you Bobby's Brother ♥️
Hi Bobby's Brother,
I wish that I owned that poster. As for me i didn't go to Vietnam but I did go to in late 1980's early 1990's (around that time i cannot give exact date )that i went to Malta. There was someone selling cassettes, I asked if he got ABBA, he had. So i bought one cassette. He then played ABBA music from then on in the street near the coast. Anthony UK.
I wonder if Vietnam has the ABBA Mamma Mia Party, which was sort of the precursor to the official Voyage comeback and the subsequent Yoyage show in London.
Call it the prequel ABBA experience you could book before the Voyage show came along.
As a Vietnamese subscriber to your channel for almost two years, I was flabbergasted when I saw this video. 😂
Did you know that "Happy New Year" has been a part of tradition here in our country? If you're interested, here's a video explaining the phenomenon: ua-cam.com/video/5OAuMBAQLTI/v-deo.html
I'm glad you enjoyed your time in Vietnam. Cheers!
Thank u mate.You've just confirmed my infos about HNY in your country!
That video was wonderful! How sweet to see the kids singing the song in class! I had no idea!! Thank you for posting.
Thanks so much for the link to that video. That's soooo cool. ❤
Danke, schöne Zeit in Vietnam
❤
It's ANZAC day in Australia 🇭🇲 tomorrow when Australia went to Vietnam ,Australian New Zealand Army Corps(ANZAC) is what it stand for. sadly they were called over to fight in the war😥🙏
To be fair, ANZAC Day is not about invading Vietnam. It is to commemorate Australians and New Zeanders who fought in all wars. But more importantly, its origins are in WW1 and Gallipoli. For context, I'm a 'Kiwi' living in Australia.
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I love you BB.
I love you, too.
🤩💖🌹🌹🌹🪄🎉✨🌈🌻
Tôi đã lấy cảm hứng từ cuộc hôn nhân và những đau khổ của cặp đôi Bjorn và Agnetha để nói về tình yêu trung thành với các bạn trẻ tiền hôn nhân. Họ bắt đầu bằng đam mê đôi lứa, xây dựng tình bạn trong cuộc hôn phối giữa tình yêu và âm nhạc. Sau khi tan vỡ hôn nhân, họ phải học yêu, học tha thứ để trở về với nhau trong tình bạn già, nơi đó hai linh hồn đã nên một. Tôi cho rằng dây hôn phối của họ không thể đứt, ngay cả khi họ không là vợ chồng thực tế nữa.
50 years ago
Waterloo (ᗅᗺᗷᗅ) won ESC
April 6 1974 also same day
Hooked on a Feeling
First #1 on Billboard from Sweden
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