''Tio år med Agnetha'' (Ten Years With Agnetha) is a 1979

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by Swedish

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singer

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 alb ...

, one of the members of

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. 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

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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

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, several of which have also competed in the

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. "När du tar mig i din famn" topped the Swedish radio chart

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in late 1979 and was also released as a single, with Fältskog's very first hit "Jag var så kär" on the B-side. An English-language demo recording of the track, called "The Queen Of Hearts", was discovered in the CBS-Cupol archives in the late 1990s and was included on Fältskog's international greatest hits album ''

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'' (

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) in 1998. ''Tio År Med Agnetha'' contains three tracks from Fältskog's 1975 album ''

Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus ''Elva kvinnor i ett hus'' (English: ''Eleven Women in One House'') is the fifth studio album by Swedish pop music, pop singer Agnetha Fältskog, released on 1 December 1975 by CBS Records International, Cupol Records. Album information The albu ...

'', including her Swedish-language version of ABBA's worldwide hit "

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", and was re-released in digitally remastered form by

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in the mid 1990s. "När du tar mej i din famn" was later

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by Swedish singer

Lotta Engberg Anna Charlotte "Lotta" Engberg (born Pedersen; 5 March 1963) is a Swedish singer. She represented Sweden in Eurovision Song Contest 1987 with "Boogaloo (song), Boogaloo" after winning Melodifestivalen 1987. She also tried many times in Melodif ...

Track listing

Weekly charts

References

*De första åren, booklet *Tio år med Agnetha, LP cover & sleeve {{DEFAULTSORT:Tio Ar Med Agnetha Agnetha Fältskog compilation albums 1979 compilation albums