I was only ten or eleven when this came out, we played the 45 on my cousins' little red plastic kid's record player (the one with the flashing lights in the speaker on front), and hearing it through a tinny speaker still takes me back there, to the time when I first started to really appreciate music. It was the first ABBA song I ever heard, and it seemed like the ultimate expression of the exhilaration of dancing.
To the guy who was confused by "rock" and "jive" appearing in a disco song...sorry to disillusion you, but disco IS a form of rock - more akin to the old-style rock'n'roll of the 50's & early 60's than to the psychedelic rock and early metal of its time, but still a subset of rock. Rock has tried to cut all its ties to disco in its struggle to be taken seriously, so disco has become its disowned, red-headed stepchild, but you can't ignore the family resemblance. As for "jive..." the divisions between genres of American music aren't so obvious to people in other countries. Plus, "jive" was entering white slang and was used somewhat generically for a while....
I was only ten or eleven when this came out, we played the 45 on my cousins' little red plastic kid's record player (the one with the flashing lights in the speaker on front), and hearing it through a tinny speaker still takes me back there, to the time when I first started to really appreciate music. It was the first ABBA song I ever heard, and it seemed like the ultimate expression of the exhilaration of dancing.
To the guy who was confused by "rock" and "jive" appearing in a disco song...sorry to disillusion you, but disco IS a form of rock - more akin to the old-style rock'n'roll of the 50's & early 60's than to the psychedelic rock and early metal of its time, but still a subset of rock. Rock has tried to cut all its ties to disco in its struggle to be taken seriously, so disco has become its disowned, red-headed stepchild, but you can't ignore the family resemblance. As for "jive..." the divisions between genres of American music aren't so obvious to people in other countries. Plus, "jive" was entering white slang and was used somewhat generically for a while....