in the past you were always laughed at when you said that you like hearing abba or that you think it's great. back then, rock musicians secretly went to abba for concerts. in sweden they were boycotted on the radio because they were too commercial.
After this bombastic drama, you'd have to hear MY LOVE MY LIFE. A dramatic counter-draft, so to speak. I love Abba, so I'm happy for every one of your enthusiastic reactions. Thanks.🙂
As said the live version is must to heard. If you can get hold of the full mini musical The Girl With The Golden Hair, it would be worth a listen to get the whole picture.
I've always loved this song, so incredibly creative. you can see how Benny & Bjorn were beginning to experiment with musical-style music that would end up culminating in CHESS and their less-known later musical Kristina Fran Duvemala.
From their mini musical that was staged in their 1977 concert tour: Thank You For the Music, I Wonder, I'm A Marionette and Get On The Carousel. The last song was only in the tour and not on the album but you will see it in clips from Abba The Movie. In the show Agnetha and Frida both play the main "girl with the golden hair". Watch the clip of this same song from the movie and you will see the narrator. This shows the guys musical ambitions and foreshadows them working with lyricist Tim Rice (Jesus Christ Superstar, Lion King, Evita etc...) on the musical, Chess in the 80s.
This has always been one of my absolute favorites off The Album because it's so different. And yes, it was on The Album and also the B-side to "Take a Chance on Me", which was the second single release off The Album. Btw...I LOVE the album cover. The best artwork of any ABBA album.
One of my absolute favourites. Love the vibe and the instrumentation. Great guitar solo as well, which is rare in an ABBA song. And I love the dramatic ending, I wish that last synth note lasted even longer.
I have been waiting for you to do a video about this Abba song. I've always loved this song. Thank you for your lovely videos you post on You-tube and your smile.
This is certainly a very dramatic song, and a very dramatic departure from what people normally expect from ABBA. It was covered by the heavy metal band Ghost whose fans found it very scary, yet when they sought out the ABBA original many of them reported that they found that one even scarier. LOL. They couldn't believe this was the same ABBA that they'd dissed as a bubblegum pop band! Now, Dereck- you really should check out the opening track of the album- the full-length version of 'Eagle' which is also dramatic in its own way. Here's a great TV performance of it: ua-cam.com/video/ikUAAI9QIg8/v-deo.html
ABBA certainly gets interesting on the later albums while knocking out the pop hits as singles. It certainly is an oddly arranged track, and I like it for it.
The mini-musical started with "Thank You For The Music" where the girl with the golden hair finds her talent in her singing voice. In the second song "I Wonder (Departure)" she contemplates leaving her hometown to pursue her career. In the third song "I'm A Marionette" she finds herself trapped by fame. "I'm A Marionette" was the closing track on ABBA - The Album and was also used as the B-side of the "Take A Chance On Me" single. There was a fourth song in the mini-musical which was never recorded in the studio but was performed on stage in the 1977 tour. It was called "Get On The Carousel", a rousing rocker in which the girl with the golden hair wants to get out of the business. Parts of the song can be seen and heard in ABBA - The Movie, the only place where it can be found. Certain melody lines from "Get On The Carousel" were also re-used in the ABBA - The Album track "Hole In Your Soul".
Love your reactions Derick, you are one of the best on UA-cam. You seem to know what you are talking about. The song was both from the Abba The Album but also b-side of take a chance on me, which was also from Abba The Album. The funny thing about Abba is they were really ahead of their time. As a kid I loved the hits and not so much the lesser known songs. But as I have aged I really am started to love the lesser known songs more. And they still sound so relevant today! Good music never dies!
This is arranged as a theatrical piece. Just imagine this number in a Broadway show! It should have been in Mamma Mia! . It is perfect for that. The whole arrangement is perfect for the stage, as they used a full orchestra. This would never be played on the radio. It's not a Top 40 type of song. Just imagine this on a stage with orchestra and choreography. It would be fantastic.
at age 12 i didn't like it too much, but now I am very found of it. It's so good especially the arrangement... I personally hear Frida being stronger on that one. It has that driven psycho stressed beat which underlines the lyrics very well. You can feel the trapped and desperate situation... All three mini musical songs were B-Sides of ABBA Singles. First I Wonder (Live) was the B-Side of The Name Of The Game, making I Wonder the only ABBA song to be released officially in live version before the studio version, Second was I'm A Marionette as the B-Side of Take A Chance On Me and later on Thank You For The Music as B-Side of Eagle. I Wonder is brilliant and Thank You For The Music is one of ABBA's signature songs alongside Dancing Queen and The Winner Takes It All without being a single hit in 1978.
Yes, it is a dramatic song and very dark for ABBA at the time. They had already dealt with sadness and heavy adult topics in such songs as “Knowing Me Knowing You” and “My Love My Life” but here is where Bjorn and Benny embraced actual pathos and borderline madness. I would guess there’s may have been some fear of audience alienation but having made it part of the story line of the Mini Musical it sort of gave them an excuse to get totally dramatic with out the responsibility of making it a social commentary. Without “I’m a Marionette” there would never have been “The Visitors” or “Me and I” so it stands as a penultimate moment in the history of ABBA.
Hello. It's me again. Recently I made a list of ABBA's songs to which you reacted and didn't react yet. I decided to update it. So here we go: 1. Andante, Andante ✅ 2. Angeleyes ✅ 3. Another Town, Another Train ❌ 4. Arrival ❌ 5. As Good As New ✅ 6. Bang-A-Boomerang ❌ 7. Cassandra ✅ 8. Chiquitita ✅ 9. Crazy World ❌ 10. Dance (While The Music Still Goes On) ❌ 11. Dancing Queen ✅ 12. Disillusion ❌ 13. Does Your Mother Know ✅ 14. Dream World ❌ 15. Dum Dum Diddle ❌ 16. Eagle ✅ 17. Elaine ✅ 18. Fernando ✅ 19. Get On The Carousel ❌ 20. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) ✅ 21. Gonna Sing You My Love Song ❌ 22. Happy Hawaii ❌ 23. Happy New Year ✅ 24. Hasta Manana ✅ 25. He Is Your Brother ❌ 26. Head Over Heels ✅ 27. Hey, Hey Helen ❌ 28. Hole In Your Soul ✅ 29. Honey, Honey ✅ 30. I Am an A ❌ 31. I Am Just a Girl ❌ 32. I Am The City ✅ 33. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do ❌ 34. I Have a Dream ✅ 35. I Let The Music Speak ✅ 36. I Saw It In The Mirror ❌ 37. I Wonder (Departure) ❌ 38. I'm a Marionette ✅ 39. I'm Still Alive ❌ 40. I've Been Waiting For You ❌ 41. If It Wasn't For The Nights ✅ 42. Intermezzo No. 1 ❌ 43. Just Like That ❌ 44. King Kong Song ❌ 45. Kisses Of Fire ✅ 46. Knowing Me, Knowing You ✅ 47. Lay All Your Love On Me ✅ 48. Like an Angel Passing Through My Room ✅ 49. Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough) ❌ 50. Lovelight ❌ 51. Lovers (Live A Little Longer) ✅ 52. Mamma Mia ✅ 53. Man In The Middle ❌ 54. Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother ❌ 55. Me and I ✅ 56. Medley (Pick A Bale Of Cotton/On Top Of Old Smokey/Midnight Special) ❌ 57. Merry-Go-Round ❌ 58. Money, Money, Money ✅ 59. Move On ✅ 60. My Love, My Life ❌ 61. My Mama Said ❌ 62. Nina, Pretty Ballerina ❌ 63. On and On and On ✅ 64. One Man, One Woman ✅ 65. One Of Us ✅ 66. Our Last Summer ❌ 67. People Need Love ❌ 68. Put On Your White Sombrero ✅ 69. Ring Ring ❌ 70. Rock Me ❌ 71. Rock'n Roll Band ❌ 72. Rubber Ball Men ❌ 73. Santa Rosa ❌ 74. She's My Kind Of Girl ❌ 75. Should I Laugh Or Cry ✅ 76. Sitting In The Palmtree ❌ 77. Slipping Through My Fingers ✅ 78. So Long ❌ 79. Soldiers ✅ 80. SOS ✅ 81. Summer Night City ✅ 82. Super Trouper ✅ 83. Suzy-Hang-Around ❌ 84. Take a Chance On Me ✅ 85. Thank You For The Music ❌ 86. That's Me ❌ 87. The Day Before You Came ✅ 88. The King Has Lost His Crown ✅ 89. The Name Of The Game ✅ 90. The Piper ✅ 91. The Visitors (Crackin Up) ✅ 92. The Way Old Friends Do ❌ 93. The Winner Takes It All ✅ 94. Tiger ❌ 95. Tropical Loveland ❌ 96. Two For The Price Of One ❌ 97. Under Attack ✅ 98. Voulez-Vous ✅ 99. Watch Out ❌ 100. Waterloo ✅ 101. What About Livingstone ❌ 102. When All Is Said And Done ✅ 103. When I Kissed The Teacher ✅ 104. Why Did It Have To Be Me ✅ 105. You Owe Me One ❌
Listening to the tempo of this piece, gives an image of the pace in the industry and the time they spent touring. Relentless, exhausting, frustrating. The public think it's a glamorous lifestyle. This song opens up the reality. One of my favourites on The Album.
It was both a B-side of Take a Chance and the last song on The Album (after two other tracks from the mini-musical: Thank You For the Music and I Wonder)
So glad to see you react to this, if you can somehow get hold of footage of the mini operetta that this was a part of on thier Australian tour in 1977 it was incredible. I was there on a very wet night in Sydney and it blew everyone away.
Epic, epic, epic! There's some discussion about the guitar solo, completely ALAN PARSONS PROJECT's THE TURN OF A... style, but, I'm a marionette was released in 1977 and THE TURN in 1980. Being a huge fan of both... no discussion...ALAN PARSONS perhaps was inspired by I'm A MARIONETTE. Many dark and even satanic covers were recorded, Dereck, but nothing compares to ABBA's record. EPIC EPIC EPIC
APP had said that Abba are musically idiots,so go away with this horrible jealousy band with only one hit.The only connection between this two bands is they had and Benny still have the same extreme expensive and rare Yamaha Synth,that magic sound cluster on the beginning of summer night city long Version live
@@Urfinchannel I've never knew about Alan Parsons have declared such an unhappy thing. But, if he has, it shows some arrogancy. And one of his latest albums, A Valid Path, is, IMHO, a complete disaster. Yet, they have great songs, especially when his recently dead partner (forgot his name) was in the band.
Both the songs Take A Chance On Me and I'm A Marionette are on ABBA The Album. ABBA The Movie contained concert footage of their earlier hits along with footage from the mini musical The Girl With The Golden Hair, which contained Thank You For The Music, I Wonder, I'm A Marionette and (not on the album Get On The Carousel). and a few songs from The Album that were ready...Eagle and Name of The Game and possibly Hole In Your Soul, which the opening bars can be heard at the start of teh movie. After the concert footage was filmed, ABBA returned to Sweden to finish work on the album, add scenes to the movie, and give some rest time for Agnetha, who was pregnant with her second child. The Movie release coincided with the release of ABBA The Album in order to promote the group and the new material.
The cleverest thing about this song is that the tempo contrasts so much with the predominantly minor key of the tune - this is a song truly on its own in their catalogue
Requested by many, i'm sure! Was just a question of time before you would discover and approve this jewel! Please react to ''I wonder'' sung by Frida. It is the song that comes before I'm a marionette on "'The Album"'.
Written in 1976. Performed during 1977 Euro and Aussie tours. Jan - Mar. The Girl With The Golden Hair (Doris Day and a critic on the music industry and what they do to the talent) Narration provided by a gentleman wearing mime face paint, explaining the story to the audience before, and between the songs. 1. Thank You For The Music 2. I Wonder (Departure) 3. Get on the Carousel (Live only) ** 4. I'm A Marionette Live versions are available. Except Thank You For The Music. Vocals: Frida leading Agnetha. Agnetha shadowing. Just like Dancing Queen. Both girls sing, but Frida leading, kinda like a man leads a woman in a ball room dance. After a while you can pick out their voices in a nano-second. Agnetha - popish style, hard, punchy. Her background is record label pop star before ABBA. Frida - classical stylist, rounded, warm, very versatile. Opera to pop to rock to torch singer. She does an awesome Pat Benetar in her Live concert I'm 1981. The Beatles too. Frida can rock. And can do opera too .Her background is stage since 1956. They are very very different. But sound awesome when put together. I liken them to The Louvin Brothers. ** It is a cooker!!!! A major rocker, full on heavy fast rocker. A section was taken and is in Hole In Your Soul. When ABBA rocks they can rock.
@@anthonysmith8800 Absolutely! I always felt like ‘Where I Want to Be’ is similar to ‘I Let the Music Speak’ in the verses and to ‘I’m A Marionette’ in the chorus
the studio version becomes much more pleasant,with all those details,instruments and voices so perfect,the live version is good,but it doesn’t have that magic
Thank you so much for reacting to this one! Indeed a B-Side to "Take a Chance on Me" as both songs were from Abba-The Album. Picture the summer of 1978; I had this '45 and played it to death. I wasn't crazy about "I'm a Marionette" at the time since "Take a Chance on Me" was the huge hit. The B-Side became really scuffed up. Now that I am more mature :-) I appreciate the depth of "I'm a Marionette"; Benny and Bjorn were flexing their creative muscles attempting to test the waters of musical theater which ultimately resulted in the development of "Chess-the musical, in 1984". Both were enamored by the American rock sounds by groups such as the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, yet had deep routes in their signature Swedish musical ascent. "I'm a Marionette" is obviously a fusion of an American 70's jam and European excellence. "I Wonder" and "Thank You For The Music" from the same album are absolutely stunning.
the full mini musical should have been released as a ep, always a highlight of the live shows although the live versions have a slightly different arrangement to the lp
Abba have so many songs that one just wouldn't expect from this pop group. The guitar solo is one of my favorites. The whole song is so sophisticated. Love it.
@@nielsulriksrensen9818 Let me introduce you to the rock opera genre. You should check out Chess, the musical Benny and Björn wrote along with Tim Rice, the guy who also wrote one of the most famous rock operas of all time, Jesus Christ Superstar
I'm A Marionette, I Wonder (departure) & Thank You For The Music are all from a mini musical The Girl With The Golden Hair that never was. This is just my own take on it : either Frida or Agentha is trapped in a small town living a Stepford Wives existence feeling trapped in the opening song I'm A Marionette, then in I Wonder departure, they're contemplating leaving this small town taking a huge risk venturing unknown ground & then in Thank You For The Music after leaving the small town , they're now perusing their dream on being on stage singing to the masses living a full filled happy life. Now I could be completely and utterly wrong in my take of the storyline to this mini musical but who knows. ABBA actually performed I'm A Marionette on their tour which was featured in ABBA The Movie with Aneghta & Frida wearing wigs looking identical.
Such a strong composition and flawless production. Loved this one from day one in 1977. I used to think it was just a bit too much musicallike, but if that is a fact, it is in the best way it could have been done. This song was the closure of a magnificant album.
I wonder (depature) and Thank you for the music are two beautiful songs that are still there. I know you have heard the chorus of thank you for the music Dereck, but there is so much more to the song than that. Rock me is also a great fun one that you haven't tried yet.
The performance of this song on their Australian tour is so epiccccc
Its is good but I prefer the studio version
@@AdamDawson3 me too
The studio version is more gloomy and musically epic
Yes! I agree!!!
the whole australian tour is epic
Funny how opinions on songs change over the years. Never used to like this but now I love it.
Exactly the same here !
@@vanHoogenboom Become an ABBA fan? :-D
in the past you were always laughed at when you said that you like hearing abba or that you think it's great.
back then, rock musicians secretly went to abba for concerts. in sweden they were boycotted on the radio because they were too commercial.
What a great song again. Abba is unbeaten for the girls voices, the arrangement, the compositition and before all perfect studio production.
After this bombastic drama, you'd have to hear MY LOVE MY LIFE.
A dramatic counter-draft, so to speak.
I love Abba, so I'm happy for every one of your enthusiastic reactions.
Thanks.🙂
Agree, MY LOVE... is one of the most beautiful sad songs ever written
One of their masterpieces. Fantastic song. Thank you.
As said the live version is must to heard. If you can get hold of the full mini musical The Girl With The Golden Hair, it would be worth a listen to get the whole picture.
I completely agree. the live version is electrifying.
I've always loved this song, so incredibly creative. you can see how Benny & Bjorn were beginning to experiment with musical-style music that would end up culminating in CHESS and their less-known later musical Kristina Fran Duvemala.
Loved the Popera Kristina från Duvemala. Was lucky to see it play (one time only) at the RAH . Du måste finnas is absolutely powerful and beautiful
Been waiting for this classic! Loved this as a kid when we used to listen to my mum's ABBA records 😊
From their mini musical that was staged in their 1977 concert tour: Thank You For the Music, I Wonder, I'm A Marionette and Get On The Carousel. The last song was only in the tour and not on the album but you will see it in clips from Abba The Movie. In the show Agnetha and Frida both play the main "girl with the golden hair". Watch the clip of this same song from the movie and you will see the narrator. This shows the guys musical ambitions and foreshadows them working with lyricist Tim Rice (Jesus Christ Superstar, Lion King, Evita etc...) on the musical, Chess in the 80s.
I Just love the live version of Get on the carousel!
Do you know about another version of the song? As far as I know, Get on the carousel was never recorded, they only performed it live.
@@robertschatz7781 , you are right, there is no recorded version. it is a pity!
Still think, in my humble opinion, this was the best Album production wise.
This has always been one of my absolute favorites off The Album because it's so different.
And yes, it was on The Album and also the B-side to "Take a Chance on Me", which was the second single release off The Album.
Btw...I LOVE the album cover. The best artwork of any ABBA album.
FRIDA VERY STRONG ON THIS SONG LOVE THEM BOTH 😍😍😍
I am totally thrilled how you young guys are loving the joy of ABBA. They simply must be one of the most inventive bands of all time.
One of my absolute favourites. Love the vibe and the instrumentation. Great guitar solo as well, which is rare in an ABBA song. And I love the dramatic ending, I wish that last synth note lasted even longer.
I have been waiting for you to do a video about this Abba song. I've always loved this song. Thank you for your lovely videos you post on You-tube and your smile.
This is certainly a very dramatic song, and a very dramatic departure from what people normally expect from ABBA. It was covered by the heavy metal band Ghost whose fans found it very scary, yet when they sought out the ABBA original many of them reported that they found that one even scarier. LOL. They couldn't believe this was the same ABBA that they'd dissed as a bubblegum pop band! Now, Dereck- you really should check out the opening track of the album- the full-length version of 'Eagle' which is also dramatic in its own way. Here's a great TV performance of it: ua-cam.com/video/ikUAAI9QIg8/v-deo.html
I have never understood why anyone would think 'I'm A Marionette' is a scary or dark song it most certainly isn't.
Yes! This full lenght version of Eagle is the perfect one!!! The original video / single cuts off drastically the guitar solo and is a shame...
ABBA certainly gets interesting on the later albums while knocking out the pop hits as singles. It certainly is an oddly arranged track, and I like it for it.
The mini-musical started with "Thank You For The Music" where the girl with the golden hair finds her talent in her singing voice. In the second song "I Wonder (Departure)" she contemplates leaving her hometown to pursue her career. In the third song "I'm A Marionette" she finds herself trapped by fame. "I'm A Marionette" was the closing track on ABBA - The Album and was also used as the B-side of the "Take A Chance On Me" single. There was a fourth song in the mini-musical which was never recorded in the studio but was performed on stage in the 1977 tour. It was called "Get On The Carousel", a rousing rocker in which the girl with the golden hair wants to get out of the business. Parts of the song can be seen and heard in ABBA - The Movie, the only place where it can be found. Certain melody lines from "Get On The Carousel" were also re-used in the ABBA - The Album track "Hole In Your Soul".
Love your reactions Derick, you are one of the best on UA-cam. You seem to know what you are talking about. The song was both from the Abba The Album but also b-side of take a chance on me, which was also from Abba The Album. The funny thing about Abba is they were really ahead of their time. As a kid I loved the hits and not so much the lesser known songs. But as I have aged I really am started to love the lesser known songs more. And they still sound so relevant today! Good music never dies!
This is arranged as a theatrical piece. Just imagine this number in a
Broadway show! It should have been in Mamma Mia! . It is perfect for that. The whole arrangement is perfect for the stage, as they used a full orchestra. This would never be played on the radio. It's not a Top 40 type of song. Just imagine this on a stage with orchestra and choreography. It would be fantastic.
at age 12 i didn't like it too much, but now I am very found of it. It's so good especially the arrangement... I personally hear Frida being stronger on that one. It has that driven psycho stressed beat which underlines the lyrics very well. You can feel the trapped and desperate situation... All three mini musical songs were B-Sides of ABBA Singles. First I Wonder (Live) was the B-Side of The Name Of The Game, making I Wonder the only ABBA song to be released officially in live version before the studio version, Second was I'm A Marionette as the B-Side of Take A Chance On Me and later on Thank You For The Music as B-Side of Eagle. I Wonder is brilliant and Thank You For The Music is one of ABBA's signature songs alongside Dancing Queen and The Winner Takes It All without being a single hit in 1978.
Yes, it is a dramatic song and very dark for ABBA at the time. They had already dealt with sadness and heavy adult topics in such songs as “Knowing Me Knowing You” and “My Love My Life” but here is where Bjorn and Benny embraced actual pathos and borderline madness. I would guess there’s may have been some fear of audience alienation but having made it part of the story line of the Mini Musical it sort of gave them an excuse to get totally dramatic with out the responsibility of making it a social commentary. Without “I’m a Marionette” there would never have been “The Visitors” or “Me and I” so it stands as a penultimate moment in the history of ABBA.
That’s a great perspective!
I was lucky enough to see ABBA perform this live in 1977 before it was released on their album. Amazing!
Always liked this song. The Album is one of my top fav ABBA LP's
Thank you so much for listening to ABBA. The version from Australia is so much better.
Definitely from Abba The Album and their live concerts in 1977. I saw this concert in Adelaide Australia at the age of 7!
Also, the Dereck dancing is particularly epic on this one - strings hand and bass fingers going wild!
“Holy Bananas” is my new catchphrase!😂
The Album, without a doubt, is a total masterpiece. So glad you’ve reacted to this.
It was my least favorite album back in the day... and NOW, it's up there for sure as SUPREME. I guess as we get older, we understand more.
I love this song
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Hello. It's me again. Recently I made a list of ABBA's songs to which you reacted and didn't react yet. I decided to update it. So here we go:
1. Andante, Andante ✅
2. Angeleyes ✅
3. Another Town, Another Train ❌
4. Arrival ❌
5. As Good As New ✅
6. Bang-A-Boomerang ❌
7. Cassandra ✅
8. Chiquitita ✅
9. Crazy World ❌
10. Dance (While The Music Still Goes On) ❌
11. Dancing Queen ✅
12. Disillusion ❌
13. Does Your Mother Know ✅
14. Dream World ❌
15. Dum Dum Diddle ❌
16. Eagle ✅
17. Elaine ✅
18. Fernando ✅
19. Get On The Carousel ❌
20. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) ✅
21. Gonna Sing You My Love Song ❌
22. Happy Hawaii ❌
23. Happy New Year ✅
24. Hasta Manana ✅
25. He Is Your Brother ❌
26. Head Over Heels ✅
27. Hey, Hey Helen ❌
28. Hole In Your Soul ✅
29. Honey, Honey ✅
30. I Am an A ❌
31. I Am Just a Girl ❌
32. I Am The City ✅
33. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do ❌
34. I Have a Dream ✅
35. I Let The Music Speak ✅
36. I Saw It In The Mirror ❌
37. I Wonder (Departure) ❌
38. I'm a Marionette ✅
39. I'm Still Alive ❌
40. I've Been Waiting For You ❌
41. If It Wasn't For The Nights ✅
42. Intermezzo No. 1 ❌
43. Just Like That ❌
44. King Kong Song ❌
45. Kisses Of Fire ✅
46. Knowing Me, Knowing You ✅
47. Lay All Your Love On Me ✅
48. Like an Angel Passing Through My Room ✅
49. Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough) ❌
50. Lovelight ❌
51. Lovers (Live A Little Longer) ✅
52. Mamma Mia ✅
53. Man In The Middle ❌
54. Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother ❌
55. Me and I ✅
56. Medley (Pick A Bale Of Cotton/On Top Of Old Smokey/Midnight Special) ❌
57. Merry-Go-Round ❌
58. Money, Money, Money ✅
59. Move On ✅
60. My Love, My Life ❌
61. My Mama Said ❌
62. Nina, Pretty Ballerina ❌
63. On and On and On ✅
64. One Man, One Woman ✅
65. One Of Us ✅
66. Our Last Summer ❌
67. People Need Love ❌
68. Put On Your White Sombrero ✅
69. Ring Ring ❌
70. Rock Me ❌
71. Rock'n Roll Band ❌
72. Rubber Ball Men ❌
73. Santa Rosa ❌
74. She's My Kind Of Girl ❌
75. Should I Laugh Or Cry ✅
76. Sitting In The Palmtree ❌
77. Slipping Through My Fingers ✅
78. So Long ❌
79. Soldiers ✅
80. SOS ✅
81. Summer Night City ✅
82. Super Trouper ✅
83. Suzy-Hang-Around ❌
84. Take a Chance On Me ✅
85. Thank You For The Music ❌
86. That's Me ❌
87. The Day Before You Came ✅
88. The King Has Lost His Crown ✅
89. The Name Of The Game ✅
90. The Piper ✅
91. The Visitors (Crackin Up) ✅
92. The Way Old Friends Do ❌
93. The Winner Takes It All ✅
94. Tiger ❌
95. Tropical Loveland ❌
96. Two For The Price Of One ❌
97. Under Attack ✅
98. Voulez-Vous ✅
99. Watch Out ❌
100. Waterloo ✅
101. What About Livingstone ❌
102. When All Is Said And Done ✅
103. When I Kissed The Teacher ✅
104. Why Did It Have To Be Me ✅
105. You Owe Me One ❌
You’re a legend. Still so many to go!! Great work.
@@Melb1 Nah... I'm not the legend. It's not that much work to do. ABBA is a real legend 😁🤩 But thanks for the compliment 🥰
I just love your reactions to Abba! My favorite band ever!
Australia live, try it.
Holy BANANAS 🤗👍👍👍
DANKE DERECK, die Live Version aus dem ABBA Film
ist auch Sehenswert 👌👌👌‼️‼️‼️
Das war schon fast eine kleine Oper!!!👍👍👍
Und das zu dieser Zeit,
Unfassbar Genial!!!👌👌👌💯💥🇸🇪👏👏👏‼️‼️‼️
This song wouldnt be out of place on the visitors album. sounds epic on full volume.
@Marvin Morawski im talking about how dark the song is not who is singing it.
@@sph476 Its not a dark song at all I find it quite a happy and joyful song
Listening to the tempo of this piece, gives an image of the pace in the industry and the time they spent touring. Relentless, exhausting, frustrating. The public think it's a glamorous lifestyle. This song opens up the reality. One of my favourites on The Album.
This was the B-Side on Take A Chance on Me on the 45 single. I played the hell out of both sides when I was a kid.
Very marvelous dark song 😍
As ever a joy to watch Dereck....master of the scene ...😅
I had forgotten how good this record is... ♥
Pirouette - spinning on one foot
Exceptional absolutely genius from ABBA again! And yes lirycs rules but with absolute dramatic sound.
This album is a very underrated pop masterpiece,should have been masively more popular!!
Or an underrated prog rock masterpiece.
It was both a B-side of Take a Chance and the last song on The Album (after two other tracks from the mini-musical: Thank You For the Music and I Wonder)
One of my favorites. Saw them in Glasgow early 80's
The Girl with the Golden Hair - the mini musical which this is taken from -personally I think the live version is better
One of the best songs ever written and performed!
i can't believe you reacted to this, it's one of my favourite ABBA album tracks/b-sides
Thank You, Dereck!!! this is such a great song. It makes you think about what was actually happening in their lives at the time.
So glad to see you react to this, if you can somehow get hold of footage of the mini operetta that this was a part of on thier Australian tour in 1977 it was incredible. I was there on a very wet night in Sydney and it blew everyone away.
Live version in Ozzy land Is the best track of this classic .. Derek wish had chosen the live version..!
YES! YES FINALLY!! I may now die in peace
Stick around a while. There are new songs to be released!!
@@kimbozw1808 Inserts the “it’s been 84 years” meme from Titanic
@@JF-sh2sm :-)
Epic, epic, epic! There's some discussion about the guitar solo, completely ALAN PARSONS PROJECT's THE TURN OF A... style, but, I'm a marionette was released in 1977 and THE TURN in 1980. Being a huge fan of both... no discussion...ALAN PARSONS perhaps was inspired by I'm A MARIONETTE. Many dark and even satanic covers were recorded, Dereck, but nothing compares to ABBA's record. EPIC EPIC EPIC
APP had said that Abba are musically idiots,so go away with this horrible jealousy band with only one hit.The only connection between this two bands is they had and Benny still have the same extreme expensive and rare Yamaha Synth,that magic sound cluster on the beginning of summer night city long Version live
@@Urfinchannel I've never knew about Alan Parsons have declared such an unhappy thing. But, if he has, it shows some arrogancy. And one of his latest albums, A Valid Path, is, IMHO, a complete disaster. Yet, they have great songs, especially when his recently dead partner (forgot his name) was in the band.
Great Guitar Solo !
Both the songs Take A Chance On Me and I'm A Marionette are on ABBA The Album. ABBA The Movie contained concert footage of their earlier hits along with footage from the mini musical The Girl With The Golden Hair, which contained Thank You For The Music, I Wonder, I'm A Marionette and (not on the album Get On The Carousel). and a few songs from The Album that were ready...Eagle and Name of The Game and possibly Hole In Your Soul, which the opening bars can be heard at the start of teh movie. After the concert footage was filmed, ABBA returned to Sweden to finish work on the album, add scenes to the movie, and give some rest time for Agnetha, who was pregnant with her second child.
The Movie release coincided with the release of ABBA The Album in order to promote the group and the new material.
Whole album go so well together, perfect album!!!
I am pleased you chose the studio version of 'I'm A Marionette' rather than the Live version its much better.
The cleverest thing about this song is that the tempo contrasts so much with the predominantly minor key of the tune - this is a song truly on its own in their catalogue
Requested by many, i'm sure! Was just a question of time before you would discover and approve this jewel! Please react to ''I wonder'' sung by Frida. It is the song that comes before I'm a marionette on "'The Album"'.
Thank you for the music is needed too!
You really really really really need to react to the live version from Australia it’s fABBAlous
2 of my 3 favourite Abba tracks on this album. Marionette and Eagle. Marionette is pure theatre. Bloody love it
Hi Dereck, PLEASE listen to live version of this song. I'm sure you'll Love It
They still have this song on UA-cam that they sang live on stage too
Our last summer pleaseeee
Love this song, it's reminiscent of a musical track
Written in 1976. Performed during 1977 Euro and Aussie tours. Jan - Mar.
The Girl With The Golden Hair
(Doris Day and a critic on the music industry and what they do to the talent)
Narration provided by a gentleman wearing mime face paint, explaining the story to the audience before, and between the songs.
1. Thank You For The Music
2. I Wonder (Departure)
3. Get on the Carousel (Live only) **
4. I'm A Marionette
Live versions are available. Except Thank You For The Music.
Vocals: Frida leading Agnetha. Agnetha shadowing. Just like Dancing Queen. Both girls sing, but Frida leading, kinda like a man leads a woman in a ball room dance.
After a while you can pick out their voices in a nano-second.
Agnetha - popish style, hard, punchy.
Her background is record label pop star before ABBA.
Frida - classical stylist, rounded, warm, very versatile. Opera to pop to rock to torch singer. She does an awesome Pat Benetar in her Live concert I'm 1981. The Beatles too.
Frida can rock. And can do opera too .Her background is stage since 1956.
They are very very different. But sound awesome when put together. I liken them to The Louvin Brothers.
** It is a cooker!!!! A major rocker, full on heavy fast rocker. A section was taken and is in Hole In Your Soul. When ABBA rocks they can rock.
The live version is awesome! It has such a dramatic atmosphere when the girls are singing together live, and it brings the song to life :D
If you listen to Björn and Benny's musical CHESS there is many songs in this style.
"One night in Bangkok" is one that many people know. What a 80' classic!!!
When the waves roll out to the sea
The song Where I Want To Be from Chess has similarities to this one IMO
@@anthonysmith8800 Absolutely! I always felt like ‘Where I Want to Be’ is similar to ‘I Let the Music Speak’ in the verses and to ‘I’m A Marionette’ in the chorus
Frida sang another beautiful song called “ I Wonder (Departure)”. Review this song if you have time
The live version has a different arrangement worth having a listen to.
Ya. I prefer the live version more than the studio
the studio version is much better than the live
@@goroakechi3157 Same
the studio version becomes much more pleasant,with all those details,instruments and voices so perfect,the live version is good,but it doesn’t have that magic
@@PA-p23qw The studio version seems more dramatically theatrical. The live version feels like a fever dream. A fast paced Nightmare
I'm a Marionette is prophetic, it tells what is going to happen to ABBA in the distant future with their digital duplicates performing their concerts!
The entire album is amazing. Absolutely amazing.
Thank you so much for reacting to this one! Indeed a B-Side to "Take a Chance on Me" as both songs were from Abba-The Album. Picture the summer of 1978; I had this '45 and played it to death. I wasn't crazy about "I'm a Marionette" at the time since "Take a Chance on Me" was the huge hit. The B-Side became really scuffed up. Now that I am more mature :-) I appreciate the depth of "I'm a Marionette"; Benny and Bjorn were flexing their creative muscles attempting to test the waters of musical theater which ultimately resulted in the development of "Chess-the musical, in 1984". Both were enamored by the American rock sounds by groups such as the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, yet had deep routes in their signature Swedish musical ascent. "I'm a Marionette" is obviously a fusion of an American 70's jam and European excellence. "I Wonder" and "Thank You For The Music" from the same album are absolutely stunning.
"Move On", "Hole In Your Soul", "Eagle" and "The Name of The Gsme" also on 'The Album', one of the best albums of all time.
This song is epic! And yes holy bananas!
Yipeee you did it so pleased!
As you said...both of them ..B side of Take a chance on me single and included in ABBA The Album LP Vinyl...😁😁😁😀😀😀🤩🤩🤩💛💖💙
the full mini musical should have been released as a ep, always a highlight of the live shows although the live versions have a slightly different arrangement to the lp
So true.
I've only just properly listened to this song, it's brilliantly dark for ABBA!
Love all your ABBA reaction videos!
Abba have so many songs that one just wouldn't expect from this pop group. The guitar solo is one of my favorites. The whole song is so sophisticated. Love it.
Try get on the carousel
I'm like abba's biggest fan but I kinda hate that song!
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You don’t like dark songs, do you?
@@Awibrahor You can dislike a song for more reasons than just the theme; you know that, right?
You should hear this song live... It is absolutely HEAVY! They bring on the distorted guitarists and everything.. It is GREAT!
I would sort this song in the Musical category... like Cats, Hair, West side story etc.
Yes, it is a musical or mini-musical of 'The Girl with the Golden hair' last 3 songs from The Album. :)
But it's a bit rockier than musicals normally are, isn't?
A rock-musical-tune?! 😉
@@nielsulriksrensen9818 Let me introduce you to the rock opera genre. You should check out Chess, the musical Benny and Björn wrote along with Tim Rice, the guy who also wrote one of the most famous rock operas of all time, Jesus Christ Superstar
@@JF-sh2sm I surrender. You're right :-)
Dereck, when I first heard this as a 13-year-old Abba fan, it scared me. It still does. The chorus is just creepy-powerful.
I thought ghost wrote this song shows you what I know that’s so cool it’s an Abba cover🤘🏻
Definitely a favourite b side , along with that's me ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You should do One Night in Bangkok from the musical Chess written by Benny and Bjorn.
Chorus has same notes as Gimme Gimme Gimme
Thx for the nice reaction again
Isn't it time to get into their early songs ?
Did you do "ring ring" ?...or try "so long"
These songs are just fun
I'm A Marionette, I Wonder (departure) & Thank You For The Music are all from a mini musical The Girl With The Golden Hair that never was.
This is just my own take on it : either Frida or Agentha is trapped in a small town living a Stepford Wives existence feeling trapped in the opening song I'm A Marionette, then in I Wonder departure, they're contemplating leaving this small town taking a huge risk venturing unknown ground & then in Thank You For The Music after leaving the small town , they're now perusing their dream on being on stage singing to the masses living a full filled happy life. Now I could be completely and utterly wrong in my take of the storyline to this mini musical but who knows. ABBA actually performed I'm A Marionette on their tour which was featured in ABBA The Movie with Aneghta & Frida wearing wigs looking identical.
Try the hole musical " the girl with the golden hair " from live in Australia..including get on the carousel 🎠. ! 🌈💚
Such a strong composition and flawless production. Loved this one from day one in 1977. I used to think it was just a bit too much musicallike, but if that is a fact, it is in the best way it could have been done. This song was the closure of a magnificant album.
Wish he do more Kate Bush, I don’t think he fancies her music.
@@bobtrouper hm, I do think he likes her music....shall I suggest Sat in Your Lap?
@@j.k.1963 he wasn’t too keen ! Mmh I’d love Wuthering Heights! But yeh suggest Sat In Your Lap, or Hounds Of Love, Under The Ivy is beautiful
Great Song!!! My Fav is my Babe Agnetha 💋💋💋
I wonder (depature) and Thank you for the music are two beautiful songs that are still there. I know you have heard the chorus of thank you for the music Dereck, but there is so much more to the song than that.
Rock me is also a great fun one that you haven't tried yet.
A voz da Frida e muito marcante nesta versao ao vivo na Austrália
Rock ! Sublime
Always loved this song... one of countless underrated ABBA songs
Wow wow i.am waiting for this song
Great performance here..different style of music sounds...💛💖💙
This was the B side of Take A Chance On Me and was also the last track on ABBA The Album
That's a very Alan Parsons Project guitar solo in the middle of the song! Very avante garde rock song.
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