New Albums by Benny / BAO (2015 to date)

More shameless nicking from the ABBA expert on the PopJustice forum. This is really interesting stuff:
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According to Carl Magnus Palms “ABBA On Record”, I Can Be That Woman, Bumblebee, an early version of Ode To Freedom (which had a different title at that stage), Hit By A Train and at least 2 other unfinished songs were recorded between 21 - 25 January and 11-12 February 2019. Lasse Wellander played on the song and confirmed its existence, as did Bernard Löhr.

It was revisited on 10 June 2019 sessions, Frida & Agnetha laid down their vocals for the track between 2nd and 3rd September 2019.

The ABBA Voyage band were played the early mixes of ISHFIY and Don’t Shut Me Down in early 2020 to learn them, they also heard early versions of I Can Be That Woman, Bumblebee and the unfinished Hit By A Train, but they only got to hear them once.

When ABBA reconvened in April 2021, the song had been scrapped and Just A Notion had been dusted off. Keep An Eye On Dan and When You Danced With Me were also recorded in the April 2021 sessions.

It appears that by 16th April 21, the final tracks had been decided on and the only thing that happened after that was mixing, some overdubs and the children’s choir for Little Things.
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And a further post:
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Looking at the dates. These are only the sessions that all 4 ABBA members were in the studio:

29/05/2017 - 2/6/2017: ISHFIY and DSMD were recorded

December 2018: all 4 in the studio finishing off the first 2 songs

January - February 2019: recording I Can Be That Woman, Bumblebee, Hit By A Train, early version of Ode To Freedom and 2 other unfinished tracks

2nd & 3rd September 2019: additional work on I Can Be That Woman, Bumblebee and Hit By A Train

6th - 16th April 2021: recording When You Danced With Me, Little Things, Keep An Eye On Dan, No Doubt About It, Little Things, Ode to Freedom

So it’s entirely possible that Hit By A Train became, either in whole or partly, Keep An Eye On Dan or No Doubt About It.

We know they’re always recycling melodies - Dream World, Get On The Carousel, I Am An A, Baby, Rubberball Man, Just Like That all ended up in other songs after all.
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