Voulez-Vous

LP, Side A:

1. As Good As New

2. Voulez-Vous

3. I Have A Dream

4. Angeleyes

5. The King Has Lost His Crown

Side B:

1. Does Your Mother Know

2. If It Wasn’t For The Nights

3. Chiquitita

4. Lovers (Live A Little Longer)

5. Kisses Of Fire

Release:

RCA LP: VPL1-4135
Released 14 May 1979
[release date code A579B]

POLAR/UNIVERSAL “BACK TO BLACK” LP: 00602527346526 ^
Released 12 August 2011

POLAR/UNIVERSAL PICTURE DISC LP: 0602508379918 *^
Released 1 July 2022

* ABBA online store exclusive
^ made in EU, imported through Universal Music

Charts:

Kent Report chart entry: #42 21May 1979
Highest position: #5 11 June 1979 (5 weeks)
Final entry: #72 12 November 1979
Weeks in chart: 26

Top 100 albums of 1979: #30

LP 1979:

LP 2011:

LP 2022:

Cassette, Side 1:

1. As Good As New

2. Voulez-Vous

3. I Have A Dream

4. Angeleyes

5. Kisses Of Fire

Side 2:

1. Does Your Mother Know

2. If It Wasn’t For The Nights

3. Chiquitita

4. Lovers (Live A Little Longer)

5. The King Has Lost His Crown

Release:

RCA CASSETTE VPK1-4135
Released 14 May 1979

Credits:

Rolf Alex: drums (The King Has Lost His Crown)
Benny Andersson: keyboards, synthesizers, vocals
Ola Brunkert: drums
Lars O. Carlsson: saxophones (Does Your Mother Know)
Anders Eljas: string and horn arrangements (Angeleyes, The King Has Lost His Crown, If It Wasn’t For The Nights)
Agnetha Fältskog: vocals
Joe Galdo: drums (Voulez-Vous)
Malando Gassama: percussion (If It Wasn’t For The Nights, Lovers)
Rutger Gunnarsson: bass; string arrangement (As Good As New, Lovers)
Paul Harris: bass (Voulez-Vous)
Nils Landgren: trombone
Ish Ledesma: guitar (Voulez-Vous)
Anni-Frid Lyngstad: vocals
Roger Palm: drums
Halldor Pálsson: saxophone (Voulez-Vous)
Arnold Paseiro: bass (Voulez-Vous)
Jan Risberg: Oboe (The King Has Lost His Crown)
Janne Schaffer: guitar
Johan Stengård: saxophone (Voulez-Vous)
George Terry: guitar (Voulez-Vous)
Björn Ulvaeus: guitar, banjo, vocals
Mike Watson: Bass
Lasse Wellander: guitar, banjo
Katjek Wojciechowski: saxophone (Does Your Mother Know)
International School of Stockholm Choir: vocals on ‘I Have A Dream’

Thank you Ron & Howard Albert, Tom Dowd, Don Gehman and Scheilan “Sam” Taylor (Voulez-Vous)

Recorded and mixed at Polar Music Studio, Stockholm; additional recording at Marcus Music, Stockholm; Criteria Studio, Miami: April 1978-March 1979

Album design: Rune Söderqvist
Photo: Ola Lager
Photographed at Alexandra Disco, Stockholm

Produced and arranged by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus

Engineered by Michael B. Tretow

℗&© 1979 Polar Music International AB, Stockholm

Voulez-Vous

CD:

1. As Good As New

2. Voulez-Vous

3. I Have A Dream

4. Angeleyes

5. The King Has Lost His Crown

6. Does Your Mother Know

7. If It Wasn’t For The Nights

8. Chiquitita

9. Lovers (Live A Little Longer)

10. Kisses Of Fire

Extra tracks remastered CD 1997:

11. Summer Night City

12. Lovelight [remixed]

Bonus tracks remastered CD 2001:

11. Summer Night City

12. Lovelight

13. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

Bonus tracks Deluxe Edition CD 2010:

11. Summer Night City (full length version)

12. Lovelight

13. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

14. Dream World

15. Voulez-Vous (extended remix, 1979 US promo)

DVD Deluxe Edition 2010:

1. ABBA in Switzerland (television special, BBC)

2. Chiquitita (Music for Unicef)

3. I Have A Dream (extended promo)

4. If It Wasn’t For The Nights (Mike Yarwood Christmas Show, BBC)

5. Chiquitita (ABBA Snowtime, BBC)

6. Björn & Benny interview (Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, BBC)

7. Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (television commercial I)

8. Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (television commercial II)

9. International Sleeve Gallery

Release:


POLAR CD: POLCD 292 1
Released 23 July 1984
Later replaced by POLYDOR CD: 821 320-2 2

POLYDOR CD: 821 320-2 3
CASSETTE: 821 320-4
Released 11 June 1990

POLYDOR CD: 821 320-2, AS PART OF ABBA 3 CD BOX SET 523 941-2
Released 1995

POLYDOR “THE ABBA REMASTERS” CD: 533 982-2 3
Released 26 May 1997

POLAR REMASTERED CD: 549 955-2 4
Released 16 July 2001
DIGIPAK 549 963-2 5
Released December 2001

POLAR DELUXE EDITION CD/DVD: 060251797144 5
Released 11 June 2010

1 made in West Germany, imported through RCA
2 initial copies made in West Germany, imported through RCA; later copies made in Australia
3 initial copies made in West Germany, imported through PolyGram; later copies made in Australia
4 initial copies made in EU, imported through Universal Music; later copies made in Australia
5 made in EU, imported through Universal Music

CD 1984
CD 1991
CD 1997
CD 2001
CD/DVD 2010

See also:

ABBA [promotional LP]

3 Original CDs

The Classic Collection