Friday, July 25, 2008

Thank You For The Music!

I have the coolest husband in the whole world! For his 31st birthday (which is today, Happy Birthday Baby!) he let me take him to see THE MUSIC OF ABBA WITH ARRIVAL FROM SWEDEN. They are, of course, an ABBA tribute band. And not only that, they are the only ABBA tribute band with the exclusive rights to identically recreate exact versions of ABBA's original clothing, and been given permission from Bjorn and Benny (the two BB's in ABBA) to perform one of ABBA's unreleased tracks. Okay so I was a little excited.
I first fell in love with ABBA when I was a little girl and heard the song FERNANDO, which is still my favorite song by them. During the 80's I learned to love more of their music as another of my favorite groups, ERASURE, began to cover their songs. TAKE A CHANCE ON ME, LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME, AND SOS became instant hits. In high school, DANCING QUEEN became a favorite song. I just seem naturally drawn to ABBA songs! Even on my mission, as a farewell tribute to one of my favorite companions, my other comp and I dressed up in our then stylish Chicago Bulls jerseys (20 Pesos at the flea market, thank you), decked out our hair and makeup and made up a dance to TAKE A CHANCE ON ME, which we then horribly performed, much to Sister R's delight (thankfully there are only two other people in the world to testify to this!) Point is....I love ABBA!
The concert was great. There is no wonder why this group is allowed to do the official tribute. They sounded exactly like ABBA. Did I mention it was awesome!? I even got D to stand up and dance on not one, not two, but three songs (MAMA MIA, TAKE A CHANCE ON ME, DANCING QUEEN). He was happy when they played his favorite song, CHIQUITITA. It was so much fun, and thanks to my worlds greatest Stepmother-in-Law for hooking us up with the tickets. And Thank you for the music, ABBA!(and ARRIVAL).

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

ABBA was my mom's absolute favorite. I have the strongest memories of driving in the car with her singing along :-) Gotta love it!

Jewel Allen said...

I loved ABBA, too. I remember playing a tape on a walkman ALL THE TIME. I want to watch Mamma Mia. Have you seen the movie yet?

Sabine Berlin said...

No, I am hoping to find time, but I am behind on writing for the month.

kingwritergirl said...

Sounds like so much fun! Happy Birthday D. Dont' worry someday your baby face will look older than 19 :)

Anonymous said...

How fun...I too love Abba...how can you not...reminds me of disco skating at classic...so fun!

Miles said...

I was there at the concert (a couple of rows from the stage). We have season tickets. It was great. I grew up listening to ABBA on the record player...that makes me sound so old.
Happy Birthday!!