''My Colouring Book'' is the eleventh studio album released by

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singer-songwriter

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. It is her fourth album recorded in English and was her first album release for 17 years, and was well received by

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fans, as well as the general music press, with renditions of songs which she had listened to during her teen years in the 1960s. The singles from the album were " If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind" (#11 in the UK) and "

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" (UK #34), though "

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" was issued in Sweden as a promo-only single. The album reached #12 in the UK, her highest-charting album there until May 2013, when she reached #6 with her album " A".

Reception

It was announced that around 500,000 copies of the album were sold worldwide. During 2004, the album went

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in the UK for sales of over 60,000, while in Fältskog's home country of Sweden, during its first week of release, a high 64,000 copies were sold. ''My Colouring Book'' also reached #6 in

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in May 2004.

Track listing

#" My Colouring Book" (

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) – 3:36 #" If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind" ( John Cameron) – 3:15 #" Sealed with a Kiss" (Gary Geld, Peter Udell) – 2:34 #" Love Me with All Your Heart" (Rafael Gaston Perez, Carlos Albert Martinoli) – 3:11 #"

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" ( Bart Howard) – 2:49 #"Past, Present and Future" ( Arthur Butler,

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) – 3:12 #"A Fool Am I" (Flavio Carraresi, Alberto Testa,

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) – 3:15 #" The End of the World" ( Arthur Kent,

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Personnel

According to the European CD issue. Musicians *

– lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 13), vocal arrangements (3, 4, 5) * Anders Neglin –

Rhodes piano The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

(1, 6, 9, 12),

harmonium The pump organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the reed organ, harmonium, and melodeon. T ...

(1, 4),

orchestra bells The glockenspiel ( or , : bells and : set) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout. This makes the glockenspiel a type of metallophone, similar to the vibraphone. The glo ...

(1, 2, 5, 9, 11), string arrangements and conductor (1-10, 13), grand piano (2-13),

Hammond B3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs ...

(2, 4, 12, 13), horn arrangements (2, 3, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13), keyboards (3, 5, 8, 13),

castanets Castanets, also known as ''clackers'' or ''palillos'', are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Spanish, Kalo, Moorish, Ottoman, Italian, Sephardic, Swiss, and Portuguese music. In ancient Greece and ancient Rome there was a simi ...

(4),

Wurlitzer electric piano The Wurlitzer electronic piano is an electric piano manufactured and marketed by Wurlitzer from the mid-1950s to mid-1980s. Sound is generated by striking a metal reed with a hammer, which induces an electric current in a pickup. It is concept ...

(5, 11, 12), violin arrangements (7),

Farfisa organ Farfisa (Fabbriche Riunite di Fisarmoniche) is a manufacturer of electronics based in Osimo, Italy, founded in 1946. The company manufactured a series of compact electronic organs in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Compact, FAST, Professiona ...

(11) * Magnus Bengtsson – guitars (1, 2, 5, 12, 13), acoustic guitar (6),

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

(12) * Lasse Wellander – acoustic guitar (1, 6, 8, 9, 12), guitars (3, 5, 7, 13), electric guitar (8) * Johan Lindström –

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all steel guitars, it can ...

(1, 5, 6, 13), guitars (4, 7, 11, 13),

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(7), electric guitar (8), Vox Jaguar organ (11) * Johan Granström –

acoustic bass The acoustic bass guitar (sometimes shortened to acoustic bass or initialized ABG) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar. Like the traditional electric bass guitar ...

(1, 6-9), bass guitar (2-5, 11, 12, 13) * Dan Strömkvist – drums (1-9, 11, 12, 13), percussion (1-9, 12, 13), vocal arrangements (1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 12), BGV arrangements (2), additional keyboards (4, 8, 9), horn arrangements (11) * Jörgen Stenberg –

bass drum The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. The instrument is typically cylindrical, with the drum's diameter much greater than the drum's depth, with a struck head at both ends of the cylinder. T ...

(6), additional orchestra percussion (8) * Wojtek Goral – tenor saxophone (2, 11, 12),

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave ...

(2), baritone saxophone (11, 12) * Anders Wiborg – bass trombone (2, 8, 12) * Per Larsson – trombone (2, 8, 12) * Urban Wiborg – trombone (2, 8, 12) * Joakim Agnas – trumpet (2, 8, 12) * Leif Lindvall – trumpet (2, 8, 12) * Jesper Harryson –

oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. ...

(3) * Johan Ahlin –

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

(3, 7, 8, 13) * Magnus Franzén – French horn (3, 7, 8, 13) * Christian Bergqvist – violin solo (7) * Svea Strings – strings (1-10, 13) * Andreas Hansson – string conductor (1-10, 13) * Christina Wirdegren-Alin – string contractor (1-10, 13) * Karl-Johan Ankarblom – music copyist (1-10, 13) * Johanna Nyström – backing vocals (1, 3, 5, 8) * Patrik Lundström – backing vocals (2, 4, 8) * Sofia Tretow – backing vocals (2, 5, 7) * Linda Ulvaeus – backing vocals (2, 5, 7) * Sarah Dawn Finer – backing vocals (4, 5, 8, 12) * Britta Bergström – backing vocals (5, 8) * Carl-Magnus Carlsson – backing vocals (12) Production * Agnetha Fältskog – producer, arrangements, concept, liner notes * Anders Neglin – producer, arrangements * Dan Strömkvist – producer, arrangements, engineer * Janne Hansson – engineer * Alar Suurna – mixing * Christofer Stannow – mastering * Jimmy Backius – photography * Destrito – design

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

References

External links

Official Website
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