Tio år med Agnetha (Ten Years With Agnetha) is a 1979 compilation album by Swedish pop singer Agnetha Fältskog, one of the members of ABBA. The album, released when ABBA's international career was at its peak, features the most successful Swedish solo recordings Fältskog made before and during her career with the band and it was her last album on the CBS-Cupol label.
| Tio år med Agnetha | ||||
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| Released | October 1979 | |||
| Recorded | 1967–1979 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 51:13 | |||
| Label | CBS Cupol | |||
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| Agnetha Fältskog chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Tio år med Agnetha | ||||
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Background
editThe album, released in October 1979, included one new recording, "När du tar mej i din famn" (When You Take Me in Your Arms), composed and produced by Fältskog herself in the Polar Studios and with the same musicians and sound engineers (Michael B. Tretow) as on contemporary ABBA recordings. The lyrics were written by Ingela "Pling" Forsman who since has become one of Sweden's most prolific and successful lyricists, with some twenty-five entries taking part in the Melodifestivalen, several of which have also competed in the Eurovision Song Contest. "När du tar mig i din famn" topped the Swedish radio chart Svensktoppen in late 1979 and was also released as a single, with Fältskog's very first hit "Jag var så kär" on the B-side. An English-language demo recording of the track, called "The Queen Of Hearts", was discovered in the CBS-Cupol archives in the late 1990s and was included on Fältskog's international greatest hits album That's Me (Polar Music/Universal Music) in 1998.
Tio År Med Agnetha contains three tracks from Fältskog's 1975 album Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus, including her Swedish-language version of ABBA's worldwide hit "SOS", and was re-released in digitally remastered form by Sony BMG Music Entertainment in the mid 1990s.
"När du tar mej i din famn" was later covered by Swedish singer Lotta Engberg.
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Year, Album source | Length |
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| 1. | "Jag var så kär" | Agnetha Fältskog | Agnetha Fältskog | 1967, Agnetha Fältskog | 3:19 |
| 2. | "Utan dej mitt liv går vidare" | Agnetha Fältskog | Agnetha Fältskog | 1968, Agnetha Fältskog | 2:48 |
| 3. | "Allting har förändrat sej" | Karl Gerhard Lundkvist | Karl Gerhard Lundkvist | 1968, Agnetha Fältskog | 3:10 |
| 4. | "Fram för svenska sommaren" | Karl Gerhard Lundkvist | Jack E Lit, Lou Herscher, Ruth Grahm | 1969, Agnetha Fältskog Vol. 2 | 2:25 |
| 5. | "Zigenarvän" | Bengt Haslum | Agnetha Fältskog | 1969, Agnetha Fältskog Vol. 2 | 2:54 |
| 6. | "Om tårar vore guld" | Agnetha Fältskog | Agnetha Fältskog | 1970, Som jag är | 3:30 |
| 7. | "En sång och en saga" (Swedish version of "La première étoile") | Stig Anderson | Paul Mauriat, André Pascal | 1970, Som jag är | 3:40 |
| 8. | "Många gånger än" | Peter Himmelstrand | Agnetha Fältskog | 1971, När en vacker tanke blir en sång | 2:37 |
| Total length: | 24:30 | ||||
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Year, Album source | Length |
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| 1. | "Dröm är dröm, och saga saga" (Swedish version of "Era bello il mio ragazzo") | Stig Anderson | Gianluigi Guarnieri, Pier Paolo Preti | 1971, När en vacker tanke blir en sång | 3:24 |
| 2. | "Vart ska min kärlek föra" (Swedish version of "I Don't Know How to Love Him") | Tim Rice, translated by Britt G. Hallqvist | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1972, single only | 3:21 |
| 3. | "Så glad som dina ögon" | Kenneth Gärdestad | Agnetha Fältskog | 1972, single only | 2:59 |
| 4. | "En sång om sorg och glädje" (Swedish version of "Union Silver") | Stig Anderson | Mario Capuano, Giosy Capuna | 1973, Agnetha Fältskogs Bästa | 3:50 |
| 5. | "S.O.S." (Swedish version) | Stig Anderson | Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus | 1975, Elva kvinnor i ett hus | 3:23 |
| 6. | "Doktorn!" | Bosse Carlgren | Agnetha Fältskog | 1975, Elva kvinnor i ett hus | 2:52 |
| 7. | "Tack för en underbar, vanlig dag" | Bosse Carlgren | Agnetha Fältskog | 1975, Elva kvinnor i ett hus | 2:38 |
| 8. | "När du tar mej i din famn" | Ingela Forsman | Agnetha Fältskog | 1979, Tio år med Agnetha | 4:12 |
| Total length: | 26:43 | ||||
Weekly charts
edit| Chart (1979) | Peak position |
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| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[1] | 32 |
References
edit- ^ "Agnetha Fältskog – Tio år med Agnetha". swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- De första åren, booklet
- Tio år med Agnetha, LP cover & sleeve