SOS (ABBA song)

















































"SOS"
SOS - Man In The Middle.jpg

Single by ABBA
from the album ABBA
B-side "Man in the Middle"
Released June 1975 (Sweden)
8 September 1975 (US)
20 September 1975 (UK)
Format 7" single
Genre Pop
Length 3:22
Label
Polar (Sweden)
Epic (UK)
Atlantic (US)
Mushroom/Warner Bros. (Oceania)
Songwriter(s)
Björn Ulvaeus
Benny Andersson
Stig Anderson
Producer(s) Björn Ulvaeus
Benny Andersson

ABBA singles chronology





"Bang-A-Boomerang"
(1975)
 "SOS"
(1975)
 "Mamma Mia"
(1975)

Music video

"SOS" on YouTube


"SOS" was the third single from Swedish pop group ABBA's self-titled 1975 album, their third for Polar Music and their second for Epic and Atlantic. It was released with "Man in the Middle" as the B-side. Agnetha Fältskog, who sang lead, recorded the song in Swedish on her 1975 solo album Elva kvinnor i ett hus. "SOS" was ABBA's first major worldwide hit since "Waterloo".




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Music video


  • 3 Reception


  • 4 Chart performance


    • 4.1 Weekly singles charts


    • 4.2 Year-end charts




  • 5 Agnetha Fältskog version


  • 6 Cher version


    • 6.1 Critical reception


    • 6.2 Music video


    • 6.3 Live performances


    • 6.4 Track listings and formats


      • 6.4.1 Digital download




    • 6.5 Charts




  • 7 References


  • 8 External links





History


"SOS" (working title; "Turn Me On") was written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson and was recorded at Glen Studio in Långängen, Sweden on 22–23 August 1974.[1] The title itself was coined by Stig, though the lyrics he provided were re-written by Ulvaeus. "SOS" was among the first of three songs recorded for the group's 1975 album, ABBA.


The song is unique among pop songs of the period, opening with an unaccompanied classical keyboard in a subdued D-minor key. Unlike most ABBA tracks that preceded it, the vocal begins with an emotional solo performance by Fältskog. The descending chords and ominous Minimoog synthesizer melody line of the introduction set the tone for Fältskog’s vocals, sounding almost as if she were breaking down in tears. The song then transitions to a rock chorus in a major key, dominated by a distorted electric guitar and full vocals.


Despite the song's catchiness, it was passed over as the lead single from the album; the track "So Long" was chosen instead. "So Long" was chosen primarily because it had the same uptempo beat as their 1974 hit single, "Waterloo".


Lyricist Ulvaeus has said that, after three years of trying to figure out what style would define them, ABBA found its identity as a pop group with the release of "SOS".[2]


The song was the subject of one of the first pioneering music videos produced by director Lasse Hallström for the band. Much of the video is filmed from an overhead camera, as if from a tower or lighthouse, with the bandmates' faces sometimes distorted, as though shot through a prism.[3]


During the band's first visit to the United States, ABBA performed "SOS" on the long-running television program American Bandstand on 15 November 1975.[4]


ABBA performs the song live in the concert film ABBA: The Movie, Hallström's first English-language feature film, filmed during the band's tour of Australia in 1977.


ABBA performed the song on its 1979 tour of Europe and North America. While the track does not appear on the filmed record of that tour—released on DVD as "ABBA in Concert"—it is featured on the 2014 audio release, Live at Wembley Arena. For the first time on that tour, vocalists Fältskog and Lyngstad traded the line "when you're gone" responsively at the song's climax.



Music video


The promotional video was directed by Lasse Hallström and released in the same year, along with the single.[5] The music video features the quartet miming to the song outside and utilizes distortion effects achieved by mirrors. It was later uploaded to YouTube on 8 October 2009 under the channel AbbaVEVO, and has more than 49.7 million views as of October 2018.[6]



Reception


"SOS" marked a huge turnaround in ABBA's fortunes, most notably in the UK and Ireland, where it returned the group to the Top 10 for the first time since "Waterloo". Reaching #6 and #4 respectively, "SOS" started a run of 18 consecutive Top 10 hits for ABBA in the UK and Ireland.[7][8] "SOS" reached #1 in Australia, Belgium, France, West Germany (where it spent 7 weeks at the top), New Zealand and South Africa, and was a Top 3 hit in Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Italy (where it became ABBA's most successful hit), Mexico, Rhodesia and Switzerland. The song also became ABBA's second Top 20 hit in the United States, peaking at #15 (due to the single charting in the U.S. before "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", whereas elsewhere "SOS" charted afterwards).[9]


Chicago radio station WLS, which gave "SOS" much airplay, ranked the song as the 61st biggest hit of 1975.[10] It peaked at number six on their survey of 22 November 1975.[11]


"SOS" is one of the most-covered of ABBA's songs. It has been recorded and performed in concert by several prominent artists, including John Frusciante, Peter Cetera, Chris deBurgh, Cher and Portishead.


The track has a number of music industry devotees. The Who guitarist Pete Townshend has said "SOS" is one of the best pop songs ever written,[1] adding that when he first heard the song he "was transported by it".[12]


Ray Davies of The Kinks said that he was taken with the song after seeing the group perform it on the BBC television show Seaside Special.[13]


American singer-songwriter and former Czars frontman John Grant has called "SOS" "one of the greatest pieces of music ever made", adding that Agnetha Fältskog's "perfect" lyrical interpretation and emotional delivery is "a beautiful thing".[2]


British conductor and producer Charles Hazlewood called the song's "supersonic" transition from an acoustic D-minor key to an electric rock motif "absolutely genius".[2]


ABBA's performance of "SOS" on American Bandstand in 1975 has been included on lists of the most significant performances in the show's 31 seasons by several reviewers and critics. Bill Lamb put the song at number five,[14] as did Alicia Diaz Dennis[15] and Andres Jauregui.[16]


To date the song is the only Hot 100 single (or #1 single in Australia[17]) in which both the title and the credited act (and also the musical genre) are palindromes.[18]



Chart performance



Weekly singles charts












Agnetha Fältskog version


Agnetha Fältskog's version was the second single from her fifth Swedish solo-album Elva kvinnor i ett hus (Eleven Women In One House). It was the only song from this album not to have been composed by Fältskog herself. Despite the fact that Fältskog never promoted the single in Sweden, it peaked at No. 4 on the singles chart on 1 January 1976 during a 20-week chart run, and it also became Fältskog's third No. 1 on radio chart Svensktoppen, entering the chart on 22 November 1975 and spending a total of eleven weeks on the listing. The B-side of the single, "Visa I Åttonde Månaden" (Song In The Eighth Month) was a song written from a very personal perspective, as it was composed during Fältskog's pregnancy with daughter Linda Ulvaeus in 1973.



Cher version









































"SOS"
Cher - SOS - Single.png

Single by Cher
from the album Dancing Queen
Released 23 August 2018
Recorded 2018
Genre Pop
Length 3:22
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)

  • Benny Andersson

  • Björn Ulvaeus
Producer(s) Mark Taylor

Cher singles chronology





"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
(2018)
 "SOS"
(2018)
 "One of Us"
(2018)

Music video

"SOS" on YouTube


American singer Cher's version was the second single from her 2018 album Dancing Queen. It was released on 23 August 2018.[37] The song peaked at number 56 in the Scottish singles chart in August of that year.



Critical reception


Writing for Rolling Stone, Brittany Spanos felt that "working with producer Mark Taylor who helped seal Cher’s legacy with the game-changing "Believe" in the late Nineties, she finds subtle changes that update ABBA classics without totally stripping them of the catchiness that made those songs beloved hits well beyond their heyday. "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)," “SOS” and “Mamma Mia” are given just enough of a knob turn that they’re transformed from upbeat FM radio pop into club bangers, pulsating with every beat."[38]



Music video


An accompanying music video for "SOS" was directed by Jake Wilson, and was premiered through Cher's official YouTube channel on 18 September 2018. The video features a slew of women like actress Rumer Willis, singer Betty Who, Transparent star Trace Lysette, comedian Sabrina Jalees, Elena of Avalor voice cast Aimee Carrero and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend cast member Vella Lovell, styled by fashion director William Graper in a similar style to the original ABBA video.[39]



Live performances


Cher appeared on The Ellen Show on 7 September 2018, to promote her ABBA tribute album, Dancing Queen. During her appearance on Ellen, Cher also performed her rendition of ABBA’s "SOS" and discussed her upcoming world tour.[40] During her Here We Go Again Tour she performs "SOS" together with "Waterloo" and "Fernando".[41] On 31 October 2018 "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" and "Take Me Home" were cut from her concert residency Classic Cher and "Waterloo", "SOS" and "Fernando" were added.[42]



Track listings and formats



Digital download


  • "SOS" – 3:22


Charts



















Chart (2018)
 Peak
position
Russia Airplay (Tophit)[43]
 688

Scotland (Official Charts Company)[44]
 56
UK Singles Sales (Official Charts Company)[45]
 78


References





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External links




  • Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics


  • list of cover versions at secondhandsongs.com











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