Australian singles chart:
Dancing Queen entered the Kent Music Report on 16 August 1976 and peaked at #1. The song was #2 on the Top 100 of 1976.
Album:
The song is on Arrival which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 22 November 1976 and held the #1 position for 8 weeks.
Songwriters:
Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Stig Anderson
Producers:
Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
Record label of Australian release:
RCA Victor
Songfacts:
According to ABBA’s official site, Dancing Queen was conceived as a dance song with the working title “Boogaloo.” They drew inspiration from the 1974 George McCrae disco hit Rock Your Baby, and from the drumming on the 1972 album Gumbo by Dr. John. Their manager Stig Anderson came up with the title Dancing Queen, and after several months working on the track, ABBA came up with arguably the world’s first europop disco hit.
This was the only one of ABBA’s 14 US Top 40 hits to make it to #1.
Along with many other ABBA songs, Dancing Queen was featured in Muriel’s Wedding, a hit Australian movie starring Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/abba/dancing-queen
Lyrics:
Ooh, you can dance, you can jive
Having the time of your life
Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene
Digging the dancing queen
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