Mamma Mia
Sign in to savesong written and composed by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson; originally recorded by ABBA and released in 1975
Key facts
- B side
- " Intermezzo No. 1 " " Hey, Hey Helen " (Australia) "Tropical Loveland" (UK, Canada, US)
- Released
- September 1975
- Recorded
- 12 March 1975
- Studio
- Metronome , Stockholm, Sweden
- Genre
- Europop pop rock
- Length
- 3 : 35
- Label
- Polar (Denmark) Epic (UK) Atlantic (Canada, US) Carnaby (Spain) Polydor (Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland) RCA Victor (Australia) Disques Vogue (Belgium)
- Songwriters
- Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus Stig Anderson
- Producers
- Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- single
- Genre
- glam rock
- Composer
- Benny Andersson
- Performer
- Danish People's Party
- Lyrics by
- Benny Andersson
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- publication date
- 1975-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- Mamma Mia
- form of creative work
- song
- single taken from the album or EP
- ABBA
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Encyclopedic overview
Music video "Mamma Mia" on YouTube
"Mamma Mia" is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA, written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, with the lead vocals shared by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. It is the opening track on the group's third album, the self-titled ABBA (1975). The song was released in September 1975 as its sixth single. It tells the story of the narrator's on-again, off-again relationship with a lover who is repeatedly unfaithful to her. The song's name is derived from Italian and literally translates as "my mother", but is used as an interjection (Mamma mia!) in situations of surprise, anguish, or excitement. The song was ABBA's first number one in the UK since "Waterloo" in 1974.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mamma Mia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.