First Time Hearing ABBA - Bang A Boomerang

Welcome back to my reactions! Today, we're reacting to Bang A Boomerang by ABBA. Hope you enjoy!
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[@jay_ooh]

For some reason every time I hear this song I can't help but smile It's just a happy good feeling song Is it the best song No Is it the best Abba song no But It's fun that's why I like it

[@christianoazzuro6711]

Abba's early days filled with the charm of their more carefree age.Unpublished footage from this 1975 promo was used for the video of 'I still have faith in you' first time in 2021.A slendid early joyful power pop Banger.

[@teralmiles]

Back when music was real music. Catchy, gorgeous voices. Key changes. No swearing needed, no ass shaking or boobs out in the video. Just totally classic pop music. I miss the 70’s and 80’s.

[@alexioverdo5225]

God bless your mouth for the facts that you so well said!So true!

[@leifpettsson]

me to!!!

[@ThomasLittle007]

no. we have great music nowadays too. People think that the music was netter in the past , because we tend to remember only the good music from the past. We dont remember shitty musicians and songs because they did not last... but today we are confronted with the good and with the bad at the same time. We have great musicians and the legacy of them will last, just like ABBA's , Queen's and so on ...

[@alexioverdo5225]

@@ThomasLittle007 As an older one and being in the buisenes for ages,i partly agree on this but i conclude that the amount of today's exceptional stuff is far less and lacks lots of imaginative wit and inspiration.That's also areason why all those later decades so many acts use so many samples by older stuff('70s/'80s).

[@Mingus8]

Melodies and counter melodies.. seldom heard of today.

[@nickchristoforou7850]

Love this song! Such joyous energy and a fantastic melody. Never use it as a selfish tool, never ever be such a fool. Every feeling you're showing, is a boomerang you're throwing!

[@christianoazzuro6711]

No ABBA lyric was accidental.Still thoughtful and wise in such a jolly pop tune.

[@TheFridaFan]

People are getting thrown of by the chorus, but it really is a clever song when you listen. Same with Dum Dum Diddle

[@TheFridaFan]

Frida going insane here in the absolute best way!

[@tuijakarttunen9164]

I love this song. One of my favorite songs. So catchy, the lyrics and the melody line are so good. When they all were happy and cheerful.

[@j0hnf_uk]

A fine example of their early work. It's got everything you expect from ABBA. Lively, up-tempo and catchy as hell. They always look like they're enjoying themselves, too. Have you done, 'Hasta Mañana', yet? That's another early one that would go down really well.

[@dhekelia133]

Nina Pretty Ballerina is another hidden gem.

[@adrianwright8056]

this has always been one of my favorite abba songs very happy uplifting song. , You got to remember music videos were not really around back then and abba were pioneers of the music video for songs

[@lancenorthey7205]

Always loved this

[@Payne2view]

Frida is delightful in this video and really into the song. Such an underrated fun song, perhaps just due to snobbery over the 'dummy dum dum" lyric? Its a favourite of mine.

[@christianoazzuro6711]

Lyrics like that were pretty cool in the bubblegum pop-middle of the road early '70s era.

[@bachatamusica]

🤩😍Finally I see a reaction to my favorite ABBA song❗♥♫♫♫♫♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪

[@Muckylittleme]

This song is just so unashamedly poppy and joyful you can't help but enjoy it, just so long as you put your pretence to one side. Yeah the lyrics are very teany-bop but that was a style in the 70's and they have a couple of others like that but get past that and it is just a bop and happy vibe.

[@nickkruger9566]

" Every feeling your showin' is a boomerang your thowin' " - Absolute epic philosophy right there folks.

[@bobtrouper]

I really liked this as a kid, but less so the older I got. I think it’s the ‘in your face’ sound, there just no escaping it. The galloping backing track is cool and like a fore runner to songs like Take A Chance On Me. It’s interesting that this did have a video: when the third ABBA album was issued, abba recorded 4 music videos to send out all over the world as they realised television was a great way of getting into people’s homes without travelling. In fact Abba got criticised for using this new medium instead of touring and travelling. The other videos recorded were for I Do, S.O.S and Mamma Mia. It was these videos that truly launched Abba as Superstars in Australia as the country recently launched colour TV and these videos were played on pop and youth programs on heavy rotation. In fact the three songs mentioned were all No’1 hits there, and I think Bang-A-Boomerang made the top ten too. The song was well known for ABBA as in 1976 when the group were massive, they issued a Greatest Hits album, this collated songs from their first 3 albums, and helped the impulse buyers who wanted to hear ABBA and not fork out money for 3 studio albums. In the UK Abba only had 6 single hits up to this point, so many of the tracks were unheard by the British public. The album became the 2nd biggest selling album of the 70s in the UK, topped the charts for 11 weeks and stayed in the charts for 2 and a half years, it was the best selling album of 1976 and the 9th biggest seller of 1977. It was released in many other guises throughout the world, as ABBA had different record companies in different territories. It was a fabulous collection of songs to hear the early Abba sound. Another joyful reaction video.

[@wayne_twentyfive]

Thanks for that good info ! .. Being Australian, I remember a lot of the stuff relating to ABBA's epic success here .. Interesting to hear all the other stats you mentioned too .. As for this song, I'm the opposite to you .. I wasn't a particularly big fan of it when it was released, but as I've grown older, I've come to really enjoy it .. And now it's in my very top few ABBA songs.

[@bobtrouper]

@@wayne_twentyfive I’ll give it another chance!

[@wayne_twentyfive]

@@bobtrouper Good on ya ! 👍

[@alexioverdo5225]

Such great infos to be known bobtrouper!All so correctly noted thank you!

[@christianoazzuro6711]

This one was also covered in the hit medley of Stars on 45 vol2/Also that 1976 GH album that BAB is in it, is really a legendary album (with an iconic photo cover!) that is a great symbol of the '70s era.

[@mikesmithson6805]

Wow, two young couples in love 😍 frida and Benny, Aggy and Bjorn. Love the fours outfits very 70s fashion. This is off their self titled 3rd Album ABBA from 1975. The album that birthed some ABBA classics like SOS and mamma mia

[@lenaengell8528]

WOW! Thank you for your reaction to ABBA! :)

[@rdwulf6289]

I love this song! Soo upbeat. You should keep in mind that you have listened to almost all singles and now you're delving into album tracks. These are high quality tracks. This would not have been a video shoot as such (it is 1975 after all) but rather a piece for a TV show.

[@scented-leafpelargonium3366]

It was a single in some countries, so I think the video would have been made at the time to accompany it. It became quite well known in 1976 after it was included in their popular GREATEST HITS compliation album of that time. That is now unavailable due to the release of ABBA Gold, which I think is a pity, as the running order of that 1976 album was quite good.

[@scented-leafpelargonium3366]

Thank you, that is very helpful to know. I pressed "reply" but then your comment doesn't appear here on the comments section, (just in case folk think I am talking to myself in reply)! 🙃 I have noticed a few "overlaps" over the years in some of the ABBA videos, but they're all enjoyable and I guess a piece of history now. Thanks again for "filling in the gaps." 🤗

[@rdwulf6289]

@@scented-leafpelargonium3366 Yes, I remember the 1976 Greatest Hits. The second best selling album in the 70s in the UK.

[@scented-leafpelargonium3366]

@@rdwulf6289 Indeed! It was my first ABBA album I got at 12 years old at Christmas from my Mum. When I won a place to attend the opening Gala night of ABBA Voyage I was asked to do some footage of my travel from Northern Ireland to London as a kidney patient. I brought that Greatest Hits cassette from 1976 with me to include in the footage, even though I ended up not really doing any video work to submit. However, at the complimentary after party at a nightclub in central London I ended up sitting beside Bjorn's cousin & his wife from Sweden, and when I crossed the room to find the disabled toilet I spotted Benny appearing from behind a barrier! With my cassette still in my pocket, I took it out and cheekily asked him if he'd like to buy a cassette and he laughed. A friend took some photos of it, which I now treasure, so that is a very special connection to ABBA Greatest Hits! I never would have dreamed in 1976 that I would ever meet a member of the group, but amazingly four decades later I did just that. Amazing! 🤗

[@tommyeriksson6044]

This is a banger!..a medicin pill when you feel depression!! Pure Joy!!! ..a very good typical schlager!!💥

[@Bjorn9284]

It was a B side to an Atlantic 45 single SOS. Abba was so good back in the day, when you would buy a single, the other side was just as good, so you'd get 2 for the price of one. (pun)😁👍

[@eduardooscar309]

So glad to see You! pleasantly by the choice of this ABBA song Finally it's the time to "Bang a Boomerang" "Bang a boomerang" (1975) it is so nice and powerful in the fantastic voices of Agnetha & Frida It was a single only in France Belgium Norway Australia "Bang a Boomerang" was composed by Björn & Benny for other artists to the Melodiefestivalen 1975 in Sweden (the previous to Eurovision, just in Sweden 1975) It's finally in third place and after these ABBA recording this version, that is amazing! (remember that by Eurovision rules the song couldn't excede three minutes) The official video was made in Stockholm on a windy day in April 1975 in 2 days ABBA made official videos for 4 songs from your third album, just tittled "ABBA": "Bang a Boomerang" "I do I do I do I do I do" "Mamma mia" "S.O.S." (the only recorded before in August 1974) I love your reaction, so funny, bwcause these song is so happy, to enjoy, with lyrics about pure love I wish you a great week My best regards to You from my city and country Buenos Aires, Argentina South América GOD bless You

[@scottnichols3685]

I love this song. I first heard it was a kid, and, back then, it wasn’t my favorite but I can still remember listening to it in my bedroom. It’s just so joyous.

[@discogareth]

ABBAs KZbin channel have just released some videos from their live in 1979 at Wembley. I think you should maybe check out what you think of ABBA live on stage.

[@benjaminquincampoix6606]

My strong suggestions for future reaction videos: Gonna sing you my love song (great vocal performance by Frida) AND Hasta Mañana (sweet catchy Schlager with Agnetha on lead vocals).

[@The_Jupiter2_Mission]

Fun, catchy song with a lot of meaning behind dummy dum dum. The answer being found later on in Dum Dum Diddle- I assume.

[@alexioverdo5225]

Call me silly,uncool,unserious...But i do love DDDidle!Also the 'bagpipe' sound intro.Earcandy floss to sweeten your day.

[@nealwhaley63]

Not my favorite, but in the video you can see two couples in love doing what they love to do professionally. No sets, no lights, no pretense. Just Abba being Abba.

[@leifpettsson]

This was a big hit in Australia. If you like key changes you should try Dance While Music Still Goes On. It has two key changes. It´s a older song as well. 1973

[@Tom_McMurtry]

You should react to either Kisses Of Fire or My Mamma Said next :)) This song is a heap of fun, and encapsulates the fel of much of their first two albums.

[@alexioverdo5225]

KOF is highly suggested one (not just the audio)but from the ABBA in Swizerland BBC special.

[@bettinafischer3896]

Ich seh euch direkt an wie viel Freude ihr an der Musik habt....tanzt doch einfach mi😍

[@nicolap1342]

Absolutely love this. Always have but it is one of those that grows on you the more you hear it. The bridge and the key change make this song for me. Thank you both.

[@alexioverdo5225]

'Honey,Honey; next!That's another one of their early massive,iconic 'wooden bench' Greatest hits album apart from 'Bang!'

[@rpieterson2858]

the way Bjorn looks at agnetha, so in love

[@sph476]

i think you should do 'why did it have to be me' live 1977 concert footage frida as you have never seen her before.

[@christianoazzuro6711]

No they won't.It's been asked asquillion times but they refuse live stuff,Unfortunately...such a s hame

[@swifty8503]

Very happy and upbeat song. Not in my top 10 of fav ABBA songs but i still really like it

[@viktorthefirst]

Just for the record, some of those songs you have previously reacted to, also have promo videos but since its not on Abba's Vevo channel you didnt watch them :D (For instance, the music video for Tiger or When I kissed the Teacher can also be found on youtube)

[@bradleywilkinson8882]

You're only listening to these now. Imagine how good it was here in Australia growing up in those better times. They were certainly big here back then.

[@garethaskew-hargreaves6549]

I’ve been waiting for you to react to this - it’s my favourite ABBA song!

[@oscaroscar4027]

Try Gonna sing you my love song and My mama said from Waterloo album

[@krisa990]

ABBAs music treasure never ends it seems,song after song is absolute top notch level,such as this one...and their videos are really cool too,they may not do advanced choreographed dance moves like in the music videos of the 90s and 2000s,but it doesnt matter,doesnt need it..they always look so incredibly happy and the songs are the best out there,that gives both good songs,number 1,and good,happy vibe feeling videos that makes you want to watch them over and over again...not even counting listening to the great music..love watching ABBA videos and songs,and ABBA reaction videos...this song is one hidden gem that I dont think got the recognition out there it deserves..good that you guys did the reaction to it here..

[@stevenleroux7033]

Agnetha looks particularly gorgeous in this vid. Great song

[@marceloperlec308]

Tyler please react to Abba live in Wembley you'll have a great day at watching it

[@alejandrosantanaborquez917]

Hi Marissa, hello Tyler! Young, happy, in love and telling everyone... It may not be a great song for connoisseurs, but it brings joy and positive energy to me. I think that's what music is all about in the end. Marissa, I saw you laugh when Frida shook her head from side to side. It's also my favorite part.😃 As you can see, you still have a lot of ABBA to know. I suggest "Summer Night City" live, for a next reaction (partially cover the video for copyright, if necessary). I hope you are both very well and see you next time... Love from Chile 🇨🇱😘👍❤️

[@helenpeterson]

The happiest ABBA video, I love it.

[@hansandresen4392]

lovely innocent early ABBA

[@thiagovazorbolato4447]

Amo o ABBA. Parabéns pelo canal e vídeos 😊😊👏👏

[@hakanlennholm3331]

This song competed in "melodifestivalen" to try to enter the eurovision song contest. The song was originaly performed by Svenne & Lotta. Svenne Hedlund was the singer in Benny Anderssons old band "The hepstars". The song came in third place at Melodifestivalen and ABBA desided to record their own version.

[@styrelsefksu4463]

The Swedish version of this song was a huge hit here in Sweden in the early 70s with the duo group Svenne and Lotta Svenne was the previous singer of the band Hep-stars that Benny Andersson was a member of before ABBA He originally wrote it for them the English lyrics was written later and the song was rerecorded by ABBA

[@atafuri]

This song is pure hapiness!

[@gregorymata9154]

I love kids enjoying TODAY a legend called ABBA .or at least taking their time to do so . TIMELESS art must continue getting fixed on new generations!! P.s. it's lovely how this guy enjoys so much the tune , but so funny how the girl enjoys how he enjoys it !!!

[@marissa6805]

haha honestly I've never really thought about it before, but yes Tyler's reactions make me smile sometimes!

[@andersgranstrom7128]

Great boost-energy-song with fantastic melodies!! Takes me back, when it was on the swedish radio all the time... Ahh, I was young, vital...

[@christianterraes8334]

I love l love l love.... 👍Merci

[@jamiew6438]

I love it ,always have . I think in those days there were a few 'noisy' songs, like this one and So Long are a bit chaotic. Thanks for the video sweet guys. There are a few ABBA reactors and I only watch yours.

[@miguelvilchez1854]

How nice you like good music and appreciate pop goodies. Regards from Lima Peru

[@rromancunard]

Thanks for share 🙏🏻🤍🤍

[@bettinafischer3896]

Hey...einer meiner lieblingssongs😍die Fangruppe wird auch immer jünger 😍

[@ingvarjensen1088]

Marissa's looks are so FUNNY 😃 "What kind of children's song is that???" Hilarious 😁

[@flugsven]

It is, though, isn't it? I loved it when I was a kid. I don't think it's Bad, but I couldn't have it on repeat now.

[@alexioverdo5225]

'what kind of children's song is that?'lol! ok try to write something and sing like that if you can.ABBA made complicated seem simple but no,it wasn't as it seemed.I've been a fan for decades and i still discover their lil hidden wonders they had crafted.

[@christianoazzuro6711]

'children's song"?Even so,So what.I've seen in documentaries where other artists expressed their astonishment while working on Abba song covers,after discovering how much difficult it was to record and how unsuspiciously complicated construction was hidden.They made them reconsider their Abba respectf orn even higher grades.

[@christianoazzuro6711]

OK next one ROCK ME.The live version.

[@wayne_twentyfive]

A big thumbs up for Tyler's reaction ! 👍.. But I'm a bit disappointed with Marissa's ☹ .. This song is FANTASTIC ! .. It's in my very top handful of ABBA songs, and always cheers me up .. I really hoped you'd both like this one a lot .. Maybe after another listen or 2, you might have a change of heart ! 🤞

[@wayne_twentyfive]

@Marvin Quezada Yes, I was thinking the same thing .. Could be wrong, but I suspect that the dum-de-dum-dum stuff may not have been to her liking .. But, like you, that doesn't worry me a bit .. It fits the song, and the song is a pop masterpiece ! .. Cheers, Wayne

[@frankjoi6403]

One of ABBA's strongest hidden gems. And the music video is so full of life, energy and fun. Suggest "Dance (While the Music Still Goes On)" as the next ABBA song or "Honey Honey" with this fantastic video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIOmn2Npmc51Y8U

[@Chris-es7qp]

It's a great early ABBA song.... they were very early in their lyrics development... but still a fantastic little song

[@noelleggett5368]

Not my favourite ABBA bubblegum pop song, but it was a guilty secret when I was a kid. Ok, guys… I have a challenge for you… to react to ABBA’s ‘Why did it have to be me?’ (Which is actually a new, improved version of ‘Happy Hawaii’, with a better arrangements and great, saucy lyrics- but it must be the live performance in Adelaide, Australia in 1977. This was an electric, star performance from Frida (while Agnetha was off-stage getting changed for The Girl with the Golden Hair mini-musical). You guys will love it! (You’ll also get a kick out of their early bubblegum classic: ‘Honey, Honey’.

[@anderlundberg9297]

Yeah Thats a Good "Fill In Number " Where Frida And Björn Rock`s - While Agnetha is preparing for The ABBA `Mini `Musical from the ABBA Tour 1976 " Get On The Carousel " ( A Piece of POP ART ! // kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJimpJegbcpjqck

[@anderlundberg9297]

Yeah Thats a Good " Number " Where Frida And Björn and Benny Rock`s - While Agnetha is preparing for The ABBA `Mini `Musical from the ABBA Tour 1976 " Get On The Carousel " ( A Piece of POP ART ! // kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJimpJegbcpjqck - On That Tour 1976 ABBA had 100 pers in the Crew and a and a symphony orchestra - dunble sice of other tour bands Like Stones and as big as The Greatful Dead " Here´s ABBA live 1976 // Dancing Queen // kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKW7eWiqatRrf6s ( at the end you can see the Symphony Ork. that they took to Australia ! ) and " He`s Yor Brother " // kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4Smnn6qrN-fn5Y and ABBA Was The UNICEF Band 1979 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qarbaZqprcipba8

[@kjellbergh4554]

There is a Swedish version with Svenne & Lotta. I believe Björn and Benny wrote the song for them in the first place.

[@donaldmorrison8783]

Welcome to my favorite music

[@elfiero4]

Thanks for the reaction, this is one of muy favorites songs from Abba, please react to Dum Dum Diddle, kzbin.info/www/bejne/gILcm5iQq9NmfrM , it's a very nice song, similar to Bang Boomerang, but calmer and more relaxing, the main voice Here is Frida, although we know that the beautiful Agnetha is the main voice in most of the ABBA songs.

[@anderlundberg9297]

Nobody Today can write a Pop song like this bec "where have i lost my leading melodic tema ?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - This is pure talened Pop Art

[@adrianmclean9195]

I don't know if this was written from their trip to Australia ? But very cool, and you get to see Freida's lovely happy personality ! Now you just have to do: Dum Dum Diddle - please 🙏

[@eduardooscar309]

it was written for Melodiefestivalen (the swedish previous to Eurovision) but didn't qualify to the final

[@adrianmclean9195]

@@eduardooscar309 okay, thankyou

[@marksharmanmusic1]

The world needs less anti depressants and more Abba . How can you not feel great listening to them !

[@floozy_bot]

Please do Kisses of Fire next.

[@bettinafischer3896]

Ihr habt echt guten Geschmack 🥰

[@bettinafischer3896]

Warum liebt ihr diese Musik 🎶

[@malenaboy]

Listen to the Swedish version by ABBA but first recorded by their friends Svenne&Lotta ,Svenne being a Swede and married to an African American woman Lotta.

[@herrbonk3635]

To me, this is a Svenne & Lotta song (one of the groups B&B produced). Dont know why they used it themselves as well? :)

[@tube1062]

So how did they come up with the idea for the song.? Australia was their #1 country in terms of popularity for a long time...

[@OongaGosh]

This song was originally written for Bennys former Hep Stars partner Svenne Hedlund and his American wife Lotta (Charlotte). They performed it in Swedish (Bang En Boomerang) in the 1975 Melodifestivalen (national selection for Eurovision Song Contest) as Svenne & Lotta. They ended up on third place and I must say that the Swedish version with Svenne & Lotta is way better than the ABBA version. Mostly thanks to Lottas American accent which gave the song that extra umpff. Svenne & Lotta also recorded the English version but it was about the same as ABBAs version.

[@frankly-he1kf]

What planet are you living on

[@TheFridaFan]

I actually really like Svenne and Lotta's versions... both Swedish and English. It has a more folksy feel.

[@viktorthefirst]

Next time you should react to Kisses Of Fire the BBC Special version! Its playback not live and the video adds so much to the song! The girls are absolutely stunning!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5yWaJpmf7x3r80

[@anderlundberg9297]

coment some of the live tunes from ABBA Live tour 1979 - Live at Webley Arena in London - "Does your "Mother Know " and " Hole In Your Soul " // kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHbciod3g7iDoJY "Summernight City " // kzbin.info/www/bejne/mp3OhWaeg7Rlgsk and many more ( even better than the studio versions

[@anderlundberg9297]

And coment on "Lover`s Live a Litle Longer " // kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHLdYZiYat6SisU - ABBA In Schweiz //

[@christinahansen9952]

I would like to hear one of my first favorit songs: When I kissed the teacher 😆

[@noahsgifs]

React to Now United's Clockwork perfomance please ❤

[@richardhussey-cq2se]

This is a very silly song, but it is still good!

[@dreasbn]

it's a nice song for that period, but then again.... it's more Dum Dum Diddle and Ring Ring than SOS.... so it has a kind of cheesiness to it that made Mamma Mia and SOS far superior... it always leaves me torn... yep very catchy, but they pogressed so quickly... it would have made a better first single off the album in late 1974...

[@Brucemcleod2345]

Tyler is an Abba fan immediately but his girlfriend doesn’t get it.

[@davidparsons7586]

Like the video but not the song. 5 from me.

[@halldorra]

This was recorded way before they smashed Australia with their music videos ;-)

[@davidlionheart2438]

There's a place in hell for people who hate this song. The Bible says so. And if it doesn't......I do.