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ABBA will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their hit 1979 album, Voulez-Vous, with a series of special releases June 14, including a two-LP vinyl version of the album and a box set featuring various singles issued during that era.
The two-LP set will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl and will feature remastered audio cut at 45 rpm.
The Voulez-Vous: The Singles box set will include seven seven-inch vinyl discs, with each disc pressed on a different color vinyl. In addition, picture-disc versions of each single featured in the vinyl box set will be made available as standalone releases.
Released in April 1979, Voulez-Vous was ABBA’s fifth straight #1 album in the band’s native Sweden and also peaked at #19 on the Billboard 200. The record yielded two top-30 hits in the U.S., “Does Your Mother Know” and “Chiquitita,” which reached #19 and #29, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100. Voulez-Vous eventually was certified gold for sales of more than 500,000 copies in the States.
The interesting tracks featured on the singles box set include a medley of the traditional American tunes “Pick a Bale of Cotton,” “On Top of Old Smokey” and “Midnight Special,” an extended dance remix of the song “Voulez-Vous,” and the non-album single “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight).”
Here’s the track list of the Voulez-Vous two-LP set:
Side A
“As Good as New”
“Voulez-Vous”
Side B
“I Have a Dream”
“Angeleyes”
“The King Has Lost His Crown”
Side C
“Does Your Mother Know”
“If It Wasn’t for the Nights”
Side D
“Chiquitita”
“Lovers (Live a Little Longer)”
“Kisses of Fire”
And here are the details of the discs featured in the Voulez-Vous: The Singles box set:
Single 1: “Summer Night City”/Medley: “Pick a Bale of Cotton”-“On Top of Old Smokey”-“Midnight Special”
Single 2: “Chiquitita”/”Lovelight”
Single 3: “Does Your Mother Know”/”Kisses of Fire”
Single 4: “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)”/”The King Has Lost His Crown”
Single 5: “I Have a Dream”/”Take a Chance on Me”
Single 6: “Voulez-Vous”/”Angeleyes”
Single 7: “Voulez-Vous (Extended Dance Remix)”/”If It Wasn’t for the Nights”
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