Frida ensam

Frida ensam

Infobox Album |
Name = Frida ensam
Type = Album
Artist = Anni-Frid Lyngstad


Released = November 10, 1975
Recorded = February 21 1974 - October 1975
Genre = Pop
Length = 43:42
Label = Polar Music
Universal Music (2005 re-release)
Producer = Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus
Reviews =
Last album = "Anni-Frid Lyngstad"
(1972)
This album = "Frida Ensam"
(1975)
Next album = "Something's Going On"
(1982)
Misc =

"Frida ensam" ("Frida Alone") was a solo album released in Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia by Anni-Frid Lyngstad in 1975, her first for the Polar Music label. "Frida Ensam", which was recorded between sessions and promotion for ABBA albums "Waterloo" and "ABBA" and thus eighteen months in the making, also features her number one Swedish language version of "Fernando", written especially for Frida and this album. The track was later re-recorded in English as an ABBA track, becoming one of the band's bestselling singles.

"Frida ensam" contains all Swedish language recordings, and with the exception of "Fernando" and "Som En Sparv" (with lyrics by Swedish poet Barbro Hörberg) all are cover versions, showing Lyngstad's (and also producer Benny Andersson's) fairly eclectic taste in music. Besides dramatic Italian ballads like "Anima Mia" and "Vado Via" the album includes Lyngstad's interpretations of 10cc's "The Wall Street Shuffle" and David Bowie's "Life on Mars", sixties hits like The Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and Gary Puckett & The Union Gap's "Young Girl", the country and western ballad "The Most Beautiful Girl", "Send in the Clowns" from Stephen Sondheim's musical "A Little Night Music" as well as the Greek folk song "Siko Chorepse Syrtaki".

Lyrically most of the tracks have a common theme, that of a strong and independent woman, hence the album title. The ironic lyrics of "Vill Du Låna En Man" show a particularly emancipated Lyngstad; "Hi, would you like to borrow a man? He's one hell of a guy. His umbrella and slippers are included. -- You'll have to be patient though, remember that he owns you - plus the three other women he sees on the side. -- Are you ready to become the mother of someone who measures 2.02 in the buff? -- When he's had his say, that's the way it is. When he's wrong he's right anyway. -- Before you answer just make sure you can handle these children also known as men."

The album and single was a huge success in Sweden. The original Swedish version of "Fernando" topped the Svensktoppen chart for 10 weeks and the album became number one and stayed on the top spot for 6 weeks. All in all the album spent 38 weeks on the Swedish charts.
A digitally remastered version of the album was released by Universal Music in 2005, including two bonus tracks; the A- and B-sides of Lyngstad's debut single for the Polar Music label, both Italian schlager hits with Swedish lyrics by Stig Anderson and both produced by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. "Man Vill Ju Leva Lite Dessemellan" was Frida's second Svensktoppen number one in late 1972.

The album is included in the "Frida Box Set".

Track listing

Side A:
#"Fernando" (Stikkan Anderson, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus) - 4:14
#"Jag Är Mig Själv Nu" ("Young Girl") (J. Fuller, Marie Bergman) - 3:05
#"Som En Sparv" (Barbro Hörberg, Jan Askelind) - 3:43
#"Vill Du Låna En Man?" ("The Most Beautiful Girl") (N. Wilson, R. Bourke, B. Sherrill, Stikkan Anderson)- 2:45
#"Liv På Mars?" ("Life on Mars?") (David Bowie, Owe Junsjö) - 3:48
#"Syrtaki" ("Siko Chorepse Syrtaki") (G. Zambetas, A. Sakelarios, Sam Lundwall) - 2:58

Side B:
#"Aldrig Mej" ("Vado Via") (E. Riccardi, L. Albertelli, Stikkan Anderson) - 4:06
#"Guld Och Gröna Ängar" ("The Wall Street Shuffle") (Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Owe Junsjö) - 3:41
#"Ett Liv I Solen" ("Anima Mia") (F. Paulin, I. Michetti, Mats Paulson) - 3:53
#Skulle De' Va' Skönt" ("Wouldn't It Be Nice") (Brian Wilson, T. Asher, Marie Bergman) - 3:17
#Var Är Min Clown?" ("Send in the Clowns") (Stephen Sondheim, Mats Paulson) - 4:22

Bonus tracks, 2005 remaster

  1. "Man Vill Ju Leva Lite Dessemellan" ("Chi Salta Il Fosso") (V. Taricotti, M. Marrachi, F. Evangelisti, Stikkan Anderson) - 2:53
  2. "Ska Man Skratta Eller Gråta?" ("Principessa") (G. Baldazzi, S. Bardotti, R. Cellamare, Stikkan Anderson) - 3:51

Personnel

* Anni-Frid Lyngstad - lead vocals, backing vocals
* Benny Andersson - piano, keyboards
* Björn Ulvaeus - acoustic guitar
* Rutger Gunnarsson - bass guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin & bouzouki ("Syrtaki")
* Roger Palm - drums
* Ola Brunkert - drums ("Fernando")
* Janne Schaffer - electric guitar
* Lasse Wellander - electric guitar ("Fernando"), acoustic guitar
* Anders Glenmark - electric guitar ("Skulle De' Va' Skönt" and "Ett Liv I Solen")
* Malando Gassama - congas
* Inger Öst - backing vocals
* Lasse Holm - backing vocals
* Lasse Westmann - backing vocals
* Liza Öhman - backing vocals ("Aldrig Mej" & "Vill Du Låna En Man?")
* Lasse Carlsson - backing vocals ("Aldrig Mej" & "Vill Du Låna En Man?")
* Janne Kling - flute ("Fernando")
* Janne Lindgren - steel guitar ("Vill Du Låna En Man?")

Production

* Benny Andersson - producer ("Fernando" produced by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus)
* Sven Olof Walldoff - string arrangements
* Recorded at KMH Studios by Lennart Karlsmyr and Åke Grahn
* "Fernando" and "Var Är Min Clown?" recorded at Metronome Studios by Michael B. Tretow and Rune Persson
* Mixed at Metronome Studios by Rune Persson, Janne Hansson and Michael B. Tretow
* "Aldrig Mej" and "Syrtaki" mixed at KMH Studios by Lennart Karlsmyr
* Ola Lager - photography
* Rune Söderqvist - design

ources

* Liner notes, Carl Magnus Palm: "Frida Ensam" (2005 re-issue). Universal Music.
* Wille Wendt: "Topplistan - The Official Swedish Single & Album Charts", Premium Förlag 1993, ISBN 91-971894-2-1


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