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My Very Best
''My Very Best'' is a compilation album by Agnetha Fältskog which was released on October 8, 2008. The album was released as a celebration of the 40 year anniversary of Agnetha's first hit single "''Jag var så kär''". It was released in jewel case and digipack. CD 1 focused on her recordings in Swedish, while CD 2 focused on her recordings in English. The album debuted at #4 on the Swedish albums chart Sverigetopplistan (, lit. "the Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from IFPI Sverige. It was formerly known as Topplistan (1975–1997) and Hitlistan (1998–2007) and has been known by its current name s ..., and has been certified Gold in recognition of 20,000 copies sold. Track list Charts and certifications Weekly charts Certifications References 2008 greatest hits albums Agnetha Fältskog compilation albums {{2000s-compilation-album-stub ...
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Agnetha Fältskog
Agneta Åse "Agnetha" Fältskog (; born 5 April 1950) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and a former member of the pop group ABBA. She first achieved success in Sweden with the release of her 1968 Agnetha Fältskog (album), self-titled debut album. She rose to international stardom in the 1970s as a member of ABBA, which is one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music acts in history. After the unofficial break-up of ABBA in December 1982, she had success later in the decade as a solo artist with three albums and a leading role in a movie. She became reclusive in the 1990s, avoiding outside publicity and residing on the Stockholm County island of Ekerö. Fältskog stopped recording music for 16 years until she released the album ''My Colouring Book'' in 2004, followed in 2013 by ''A (Agnetha Fältskog album), A'', her highest UK charting solo album to date. ABBA has since reformed, and Fältskog has resumed her previous role with the group. Life and career ...
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Tio år Med Agnetha
''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. Background The 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 ...
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Holly Knight
Holly Knight (born 1956) is an American songwriter, musician, and singer. She was a member of the 1980s pop rock groups Spider and Device, and wrote or co-wrote several hit singles for other artists, such as " Rag Doll", " Obsession", " Love Is a Battlefield", " The Best", " Invincible", " Better Be Good to Me", " The Warrior", and "Change". In 2013, she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has won thirteen ASCAP Awards, and has co-written hits for numerous successful recording artists, including Tina Turner and Pat Benatar who each won Grammy Awards for their recordings of her songs. Early life and education Knight was born in New York City. She started playing classical piano at the age of four, continuing her studies for ten years at the Mannes School of Music. Career In 1980, Knight's first big break came when she played keyboards (uncredited) on Kiss' '' Unmasked'' album. In the early 1980s, she helped form Spider (featuring Anton Fig of ''Late Show ...
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Mike Chapman
Michael Donald Chapman (born 13 April 1947) is an Australian record producer and songwriter who was a major force in the British pop music industry in the 1970s. He created a string of hit singles for artists including The Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Smokie, Mud and Racey with business partner Nicky Chinn, creating a sound that became identified with the "Chinnichap" brand. He later produced breakthrough albums for Blondie and the Knack. Chapman received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2014 Australia Day Honours. Early career Chapman was born in Queensland, Australia, and was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane. He emigrated to Britain where he became a member of the Downliners Sect and then in 1968 joined the group Tangerine Peel. They released an album in 1969 and had several near-hit singles between 1967 and 1970. In 1970 he met Nicky Chinn while working as a waiter at a London nightclub, Tramp. The pair struck up a song-writing partn ...
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Wrap Your Arms Around Me (song)
"Wrap Your Arms Around Me" is the second single from former ABBA star Agnetha Fältskog's solo album of the same name. Release The single featured an edit of the album version which was also included on the 12" single released exclusively in the UK. The single's B-side was a Tomas Ledin composition, "Take Good Care Of Your Children". In 2009, the song was remixed as a nine-minute edit by Belgian dance music producer Villa. Reception "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" was Fältskog's second solo single after " The Heat Is On", and reached No. 1 in Belgium. The song was also a Top 5 hit in the Netherlands and South Africa. It was the most successful single from the album in Ireland, improving on the No. 28 position of "The Heat Is On" by reaching No. 15. By contrast, the song failed to reach the UK Singles Chart Top 40 (peaking at No. 44). Cover versions Bonnie St. Claire performed the Dutch version, "Sla je arm om me heen" in 1983. Sylvie Vartan performed the French version, "Des heu ...
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Agnetha Fältskog (album)
''Agnetha Fältskog'' is the debut studio album by Swedish pop singer and future ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog. It was released in Sweden in early 1968 through Cupol Records. Album information Fältskog had been singing with the local Swedish "dansband" Bengt Engharts in Jönköping for quite a while when the group decided to send a tape of demos to Cupol Records in autumn of 1967. Singer, producer and A & R man Little Gerhard (né Karl-Gerhard Lundqvist) listened to the tape which included Fältskog's song "Jag var så kär". Lundqvist was so impressed with the song and Fältskog's voice that he called her at the car firm where she was working at the time and offered her a recording contract, only as a solo singer, without the band. Eventually, Fältskog's first recording session took place on 16 October 1967, at Philips Studio in Stockholm. This recording session produced four songs, which would all end up on her first album: "Jag var så kär" and "Utan dej mitt liv går vidar ...
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Dom Har Glömt
Dom or DOM may refer to: People and fictional characters * Dom (given name), including fictional characters * Dom (surname) * Dom La Nena (born 1989), stage name of Brazilian-born cellist, singer and songwriter Dominique Pinto * Dom people, an ethnic group in the Middle East and North Africa * Dom (caste) or Domba, an ethnic group in India Arts and entertainment * ''Dom'' (film), a 1958 Polish film * ''DOM'' (album), a 2012 album by German singer Joachim Witt * DOM (band), a pop/electronic solo musical project by Dominic Cournoyer * "Dom", a song by Doda (featuring Bedoes) from '' Aquaria'', 2022 Linguistics * Differential object marking, a linguistic feature * Dom language, spoken in Papua New Guinea Places * Dom (mountain), Switzerland, the third highest mountain in the Alps * Overseas department, (''Département d'outre-mer''), a department of France that is outside metropolitan France * Dóm Square, a large town square in Szeged, Hungary * Dominican Republic (ISO 3166-1 ...
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Som Jag är
Som, SOM or Søm may refer to: Computing * System Object Model (file format), of the HP-UX operating system * Simulation Object Model, in computer high-level architecture (simulation) * System on module, in computer embedded systems * Self-organizing map, neural network in machine learning * IBM System Object Model, a programming tool Organizations * SOM Biotech * SOM Foundation * SOM Institute * SOM (architectural firm) * Yale SOM, the Yale School of Management Places * Som, Somogy, Hungary * Som, Uttar Pradesh, India * Søm, Kristiansand, Norway * Somalia, ISO 3166 three-letter code * IOC Olympic country code for Somalia * Somerset, county in England, Chapman code Transport * SOM (missile), of the Turkish Air Force * ''Som''-class submarine, Russia * Somerset Railroad (New York), reporting mark * South Milford railway station, North Yorkshire, England (National Rail station code SOM) * SOM Center Road, name of a portion of Ohio State Route 91 Other uses * Soum (cur ...
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Tim Rice
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English songwriter. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote, among other shows, '' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'', ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', and '' Evita''; ''Chess'' (with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA); '' Aida'' (with Elton John); and, for Disney, ''Aladdin'' (with Alan Menken), ''The Lion King'' (with John), both the stage adaptation of ''Beauty and the Beast'' and the live-action film adaption (with Menken). He also wrote lyrics for the Alan Menken musical ''King David'', and for DreamWorks Animation's ''The Road to El Dorado'' (with John). Rice was knighted by Elizabeth II for services to music in 1994. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is a 1999 inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and is the 2023 recipient of its Johnny Mercer Award, is a Disney Legend recipient, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, ...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End theatre, West End and on Broadway theatre, Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of Variation (music), variations, two film scores, and Requiem (Lloyd Webber), a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of Lloyd Webber's songs have been widely recorded and widely successful outside their parent musicals, such as "Memory (Cats song), Memory" from ''Cats (musical), Cats'', "The Music of the Night" and "All I Ask of You" from ''The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical), The Phantom of the Opera'', "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from ''Evita (musical), Evita'', and "Any Dream Will Do (song), Any Dream Will Do" from ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat''. In 2001, ''The New York Times'' referred to him as "the most ...
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I Don't Know How To Love Him
"I Don't Know How to Love Him" is a song from the 1970 album and 1971 rock opera ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' written by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Tim Rice (lyrics), a torch ballad sung by the character of Mary Magdalene. In the opera she is presented as bearing an unrequited love for the title character. The song has been much recorded, with "I Don't Know How to Love Him" being one of the rare songsafter the 1950s, when multi-version chartings were commonto have had two concurrent recordings reach the Top 40 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, specifically those by Helen Reddy and Yvonne Elliman. Composition and original recording (Yvonne Elliman) "I Don't Know How to Love Him" had originally been published with different lyrics in autumn 1967, the original title being "Kansas Morning". The melody's main theme has come under some scrutiny for being non-original, being compared to a theme from Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor. In December 1969 and January 1970, when ...
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