Fernando (song)

"Fernando"
Single by Anni-Frid Lyngstad
from the album Frida ensam
LanguageSwedish
B-side"Ett liv i solen"
Released10 November 1975 (album) January 1976 (single)
Length4:14
LabelPolar Music
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Benny Andersson
  • Björn Ulvaeus
Anni-Frid Lyngstad singles chronology
"Man Vill Ju Leva Lite Dessemellan"
(1972)
"Fernando"
(1976)
"I Know There's Something Going On"
(1982)
Music video
"Fernando (Swedish version)" on YouTube
"Fernando"
Scandinavian variant of standard artwork
Single by ABBA
from the album Greatest Hits
B-side
Released
  • 12 March 1976 (UK)
  • 12 April 1976 (Sweden)
  • August 1976 (US)[1]
Recorded4 September 1975
StudioMetronome
Genre
Length4:15
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Benny Andersson
  • Björn Ulvaeus
  • Stig Anderson
Producer(s)
  • Benny Andersson
  • Björn Ulvaeus
ABBA singles chronology
"Rock Me"
(1976)
"Fernando"
(1976)
"Dancing Queen"
(1976)
Music video
"Fernando " on YouTube

"Fernando" is a song written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, from the Swedish musical group ABBA. The song was written for their fellow group member Anni-Frid Lyngstad and was included on her 1975 album Frida ensam.

The following year, "Fernando" was re-recorded by ABBA. It was released in March 1976 as a single and included in later releases of their 1975 compilation album Greatest Hits, and was also included on the group's fourth studio album, Arrival, in Australia and New Zealand. "Fernando" is also featured on the multi-million-selling Gold: Greatest Hits compilation. The song is one of ABBA's best-selling singles, with six million copies sold in 1976.[3] It is one of fewer than forty singles to have sold at least 10 million physical copies worldwide.

  1. ^ "ABBA – Fernando / Rock Me – Atlantic – USA – 45-3346". Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  2. ^ Dedrick, Jay (1 January 1998). "ABBA". In Knopper, Steve (ed.). MusicHound Lounge: The Essential Album Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 1.
  3. ^ Karen Collins (12 January 2008). "Fernando the Flute – Details". Tagg.org. Retrieved 29 July 2009.

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