ABBA: The Singles (non-top 40s)

After hearing that Sirius radio had a channel dedicated to playing nothing but ABBA songs (and related) for 3 weeks non-stop, I decided to create a similar thing on my player. But a lot of the non-top 40 singles seem to be long - and I was wondering if anyone knows of any single versions that exist for their non-top 40 singles, and if any are available on CD (even imports). Especially songs like "Gimme Gimme Gimme", "Lay All Your Love On Me", "I Have a Dream" (a single overseas), "Summernight City", etc. Any help would be appreciated.

Edited by EdisonLite

Does anyone know how to create the 45 versions of:

Voulez-Vous
Day Before You Came
Gimme Gimme Gimme

I have More ABBA Gold and checked and found it actually has the single versions of:

Eagle
Summer Night City
The Visitors

Also, I have an import CD with "Lay All Your Love On Me" which is 4:20, but most versions have this at 4:34. Could this be a single version or just an early fade on this one particular CD?

Lastly, "I Have a Dream" is 4:43 but this song was a single in Europe. Anyone know if this has a single version?

We'd been airing "Summer Night City" from a West German import 45 for a couple of weeks before getting word that Atlantic was not going to release the single in the U.S. It was probably a wise decision on their part, as even in our ABBA-crazy market, "Summer Night City" never caused much of a stir.



Edited by Yah Shure

The "short version" of "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" can't be
edited from the album version because it has a cold end
with unique instrumentation. There is a great sound
quality vid on youtube (Gimme Gimme Gimme short
version). There is also a video of a French promo vinyl
of The Day that times out at 4 minutes (French promo
version). It cuts out everything starting with "must
have opened my front door at 8O' clock or so..." up
until "and turning out the light..." so she goes
directly from the train to bed and keeps the long
instrumental at the end. Weird.

Edited by Kiefer2

Weird! Did you check out the video lthat I mentioned?
Now I have to
wonder if that is a fan made edit or other pressings
exist with the cold
end! Does the search ever end? BTW, if you do check out
the vid-is the edit point
the same and just faded out or is it something else
entirely? Talk about
frustrating!

Edited by Kiefer2