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

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singer-songwriter

Agnetha Fältskog Agneta Åse Fältskog (born 5 April 1950), known as Agnetha Fältskog (), is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and musician. She first achieved success in Sweden with the release of her 1968 self-titled debut album. She later achieved internatio ...

. 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 "

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" (#11 in the UK) and "

When You Walk in the Room "When You Walk in the Room" is a song written and recorded by Jackie DeShannon. It was initially released as a single on November 23, 1963, as the B-side to "Till You Say You'll Be Mine". It was re-released as an A-side in September 1964, and lat ...

" (UK #34), though " Sometimes When I'm Dreaming" 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" (

Fred Ebb Fred Ebb (April 8, 1928 – September 11, 2004) was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Riv ...

John Kander John Harold Kander (born March 18, 1927) is an American composer, known largely for his work in the musical theater. As part of the songwriting team Kander and Ebb (with lyricist Fred Ebb), Kander wrote the scores for 15 musicals, including ''Cab ...

) – 3:27 #"

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Jackie DeShannon Jackie DeShannon (born Sharon Lee Myers, August 21, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and radio broadcaster with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards, as both singer and composer. She was one of the first female singer-songw ...

) – 3:36 #"

" ( John Cameron) – 3:15 #" Sealed with a Kiss" (Gary Geld, Peter Udell) – 2:34 #"

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Fly Me to the Moon "Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In Other Words", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. The first recording of the song was made in 1954 by Kaye Ballard. Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions ...

" (

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) – 2:49 #"Past, Present and Future" ( Arthur Butler, Jerry Leiber, George Francis Morton) – 3:12 #"A Fool Am I" (Flavio Carraresi, Alberto Testa,

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) (originally ''Dimmelo parlami'' by Fabrizio Ferretti) – 3:32 #"I Can't Reach Your Heart" (Ted Murry,

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) – 2:39 #" Sometimes When I'm Dreaming" (

Mike Batt Michael Philip Batt, LVO (born 6 February 1949) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, record producer, director and conductor. He was formerly the Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry. Having achieved substantia ...

) – 3:15 #" The End of the World" (

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, Sylvia Dee) – 2:35 #"Remember Me" ( Chris Andrews) – 3:05 #" What Now My Love" (

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Pierre Delanoë Pierre Delanoë (16 December 1918 – 27 December 2006), born Pierre Charles Marcel Napoléon Leroyer in Paris, France, was a French lyricist who wrote thousands of songs for dozens of singers, including Dalida, Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Pet ...

, Carl Sigman) – 4:49

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 (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. Th ...

(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 gloc ...

(1, 2, 5, 9, 11), string arrangements and conductor (1-10, 13), grand piano (2-13), Hammond B3 organ (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 simil ...

(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 (12) * Lasse Wellander – acoustic guitar (1, 6, 8, 9, 12), guitars (3, 5, 7, 13), electric guitar (8) * Johan Lindström – pedal steel guitar (1, 5, 6, 13), guitars (4, 7, 11, 13),

Omnichord The Omnichord is an electronic musical instrument introduced in 1981 by the Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation. It typically features a touch plate known as "Sonic Strings", preset rhythms, auto-bass line functionality, and buttons for ...

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