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"Fernando"
Anni-Frid Lyngstad - Fernando.jpg
Single by Anni-Frid Lyngstad
from the album Frida ensam
Language Swedish
B-side "Ett liv i solen"
Released 10 Nov 1975 (1975-xi-10)
Length four:14
Characterization Polar Music
Songwriter(s)
  • Benny Andersson
  • Björn Ulvaeus
  • Stig Anderson
Producer(due south)
  • Benny Andersson
  • Björn Ulvaeus
Music video
"Fernando (Swedish version)" on YouTube
"Fernando"
ABBA - Fernando.png

Scandinavian variant of standard artwork
Single by ABBA
from the album Greatest Hits
B-side
  • "Tropical Loveland"
  • "Hey, Hey Helen" (UK)
  • "Stone Me" (U.s.a.)
Released
  • 12 March 1976 (Great britain)
  • 12 Apr 1976 (Sweden)
  • August 1976 (The states)[1]
Recorded 4 September 1975
Studio Metronome
Genre Europop
Length iv:xv
Label
  • Polar (Sweden)
  • Epic (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland)
  • Atlantic (US)
Songwriter(s)
  • Benny Andersson
  • Björn Ulvaeus
  • Stig Anderson
Producer(s)
  • Benny Andersson
  • Björn Ulvaeus
ABBA singles chronology
"Rock Me"
(1976) 		"Fernando"
(1976) 		"Dancing Queen"
(1976)
Music video
"Fernando " on YouTube

"Fernando" is a song written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, from the Swedish musical group ABBA. The vocal was written for their fellow grouping member Anni-Frid Lyngstad and was included on her 1975 album Frida ensam.

The following year, "Fernando" was re-recorded by ABBA. It was released in March 1976 equally the brand new track for the 1976 compilation anthology Greatest Hits, and was likewise included on the group'southward fourth studio album Arrival in Australia and New Zealand. "Fernando" is as well featured on the multi-meg-selling Gold: Greatest Hits compilation. The song is ane of ABBA'southward all-time-selling singles of all fourth dimension, with half-dozen meg copies sold in 1976 alone.[2] It is 1 of fewer than forty all-fourth dimension singles to have sold 10 one thousand thousand (or more than) physical copies worldwide, making it one of the acknowledged singles of all time.

History [edit]

"Fernando" was not originally released as an ABBA song only equally a solo single by band member Anni-Frid Lyngstad. Information technology was featured on her No. i Swedish solo album Frida ensam (1975). The song was composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and carried the working title of "Tango". Preparations for recording began in Baronial 1975. The writers made last-infinitesimal changes to the title before recording.[three] The name "Fernando" was inspired by a bartender of that proper noun who worked at a club the ring frequented in Stockholm, Sweden.[ commendation needed ]

Swedish-language version [edit]

The original Swedish-language version's lyrics were written by ABBA'south manager Stig Anderson, and differ substantially from the English-language version. In the original, the narrator tries to console the heartbroken Fernando, who has lost his great love. "The sorrow can be hard to conduct, but the fact that friends let the states down is something we all accept to cope with". The chorus' lyrics are: "Long live love, our all-time friend, Fernando. Fill your glass and raise a toast to it; to beloved, Fernando. Play the melody and sing a song of happiness. Long live beloved, Fernando".

English-language version [edit]

The English version, with completely different lyrics by Björn Ulvaeus, presents a vision of nostalgia for two veterans reminiscing in old age about a long-ago battle in which they participated. "I wrote all the songs as little stories. 'Fernando' was about two erstwhile freedom-fighters from the Mexican Revolution. I was lying outside one summer nighttime, looking at the stars and it suddenly came to me".[4] "I knew that the title 'Fernando' had to be there, and later pondering a while, I had this vivid image in my mind of two sometime and scarred revolutionaries in United mexican states sitting outside at night talking virtually erstwhile memories".[4]

The B-side to "Fernando" was the song "Hey, Hey, Helen", a track from the group'southward self-titled tertiary studio album (1975), although in some countries "Tropical Loveland" (also from the anthology ABBA) was used instead. Some copies of the single use "Stone Me" or "Trip the light fantastic (While the Music Withal Goes On)" every bit a B-side.

Spanish-language version [edit]

The title and rhythm of the song fabricated it an obvious choice for inclusion on ABBA's Spanish album, Gracias Por La Música. The lyrics were translated into Castilian by Mary McCluskey and recorded at Polar Music Studio on 3 January 1980. The vocal was released every bit a promotional single in Spain. The lyrics, while adjusted for rhythm and rhyme, carry the same sentiment and roughly the same pregnant every bit the English version: "There was something in the air that nighttime, the stars were bright, Fernando. They were shining there for you lot and me, for freedom, Fernando" becomes "Something was effectually us perhaps of clarity Fernando, that shone for u.s. ii in protection, Fernando" ("Algo había alrededor quizá de claridad Fernando, que brillaba por we dos en protección, Fernando".)

Reception [edit]

"Fernando" was released in March 1976 and became one of ABBA'southward all-time-selling singles, topping the charts in at least xiii countries, and selling over 10 million copies worldwide.[5] It was the longest-running No. ane in Australian history (spending 14 weeks at the top and 40 weeks on the chart), and remained so for over 40 years, until information technology was surpassed by Ed Sheeran'south "Shape of You", which achieved fifteen weeks at No. i in May 2017.[half dozen] [7] Prior to 1997, it was Australia's highest-selling unmarried.[eight] "Fernando" also reached the top of the charts in Republic of austria, Belgium, French republic, West Germany, the United kingdom, Republic of hungary, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Southward Africa and Switzerland. It was likewise a Top 5 hit in ABBA's native Sweden (although Lyngstad'due south version was No. 1 on Sweden's radio chart for nine weeks), Finland, Norway, Espana, Canada and Rhodesia.

The rails became ABBA's 4th Top xx hitting on the U.South. Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 13.[9] It also reached No. 1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, the first of 2 chart-toppers for ABBA on this chart (the second existence "The Winner Takes It All"). The vocal remains an airplay staple on American radio stations specializing in the MOR, adult standards and easy listening formats.

"Fernando" was the fourth-biggest unmarried of 1976 in the U.k..[10] It spent 10 weeks in the UK Summit 10 (more than any other ABBA unmarried),[eleven] and was also the second of three consecutive Britain No. 1 singles for ABBA, after "Mamma Mia" and before "Dancing Queen".[12] As of September 2021, information technology is ABBA's sixth-biggest song in the UK with 903,000 chart sales (pure sales and digital streams).[13]

In Portugal the single sold lxxx,000 copies;[xiv] in France information technology went to No. 1 and sold 850,000 copies.[15]

The song was too chosen as the "Best Studio Recording of 1975", ABBA'south starting time international prize.

Charts [edit]

Sales and certifications [edit]

Cher version [edit]

"Fernando"
Cher - Fernando - Single.png
Single by Cher
from the album Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: The Moving-picture show Soundtrack and Dancing Queen
Released 21 June 2018
Recorded 2017
Genre Popular
Length three:59
Label
  • Capitol (U.s.)
  • Polydor (worldwide)
  • Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)
  • Benny Andersson
  • Björn Ulvaeus
Producer(s) Benny Andersson
Cher singles chronology
"Ooga Boo"
(2017) 		"Fernando"
(2018) 		"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
(2018)
Music video
"Fernando" on YouTube

American singer and extra Cher recorded "Fernando," which was released equally the third single from the moving picture soundtrack of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Her version was released on 21 June 2018, by Capitol and Polydor Records.[60] Produced by Benny Andersson, the song debuted on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in July 2018 at number 22. This cover version features background vocals by player Andy García and also references the Mexico–Republic of guatemala conflict of 1959, part of which had been seen by Cher's character, Red Sheridan, Donna's mother, along with her long lost love, Fernando Cienfuegos.[61] Cher'due south solo cover version without groundwork vocals by García appears on her 2018 ABBA tribute album Dancing Queen.[62] [63] [64]

Critical reception [edit]

Writing for Idolator, Mike Wass felt that, in contrast to Cher's version of "Mamma Mia", which sounds "and then playful and well-intentioned that it's impossible to resist," "Fernando" sounds "disarmingly faithful to the original, which is probably due to the fact it was co-produced by ABBA's own Benny Andersson. Information technology has a warm, live experience that was so peculiar to ABBA's '70s fare and that sound really suits our heroine's soaring vocals."[65]

Live performances [edit]

Cher performed "Fernando" at the CinemaCon 2018 to promote Mamma Mia! Hither Nosotros Get Again film.[66] During her Here We Go Again Tour she also performs the vocal together with "Waterloo" and "SOS".[67] On 31 Oct 2018 "The Shoop Shoop Vocal (It'due south in His Kiss)" and "Have Me Home" were cut from her Classic Cher concert residency and "Waterloo", "SOS" and "Fernando" were added.[68]

Runway listings and formats [edit]

Digital download [edit]

  • "Fernando" (feat. Andy García) – iii:59
  • "Fernando" (solo version) – three:57

Charts [edit]

Appearances in other media [edit]

  • ABBA perform parts of the song alive in the film ABBA: The Movie (1977). Donna tin can also exist heard singing parts of the song in "Mamma Mia".
  • The ABBA recording was featured in the films The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1993) and Muriel'due south Wedding (1994).
  • In 1976, the song was adapted, and performed by ABBA in this version, for use in a series of five television set commercials promoting the National brand in Australia, used by the Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.[ citation needed ]
  • The song was featured prominently in Flavour 1, Episode 7 of "That '70s Show", both in the nightclub scene in which the original version plays and in the endmost scene in which the characters Eric and Donna sing a portion of the song.
  • The song was featured in the Season 2, Episode 6 of "Community", Epidemiology, where it can exist heard playing in the library's PA Organization subsequently Troy lowers the temperature on the thermostator, in an try to salvage the infected students.
  • The song was featured in the "Malcolm in the Middle" Season 1 finale "Water Park", every bit the background music for a dance scene betwixt Dewey (Erik Per Sullivan) and his bodyguard, Mrs. White (Bea Arthur).
  • The song was featured in the Family Guy episode True cat Fight during a cutaway gag featuring a boy and a mounted moose caput going on a engagement.

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External links [edit]

  • Background information on the making of the commercials, plus lyrics and voiceovers used

wallaceaffor1967.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_(song)

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