ABBA - Money, Money, Money - 19 November 1976 - Toppop

On May 15 we published the premiere of this long lost video of ABBA. 'Money Money Money' was the first of the three ABBA songs from this long lost tape. Last saturday we published 'When I Kissed The Teacher'. And next saturday we will publish the last song 'Why Did It Have To Be Me'. Stay tuned to our Toppop channel!

On November 19, 1976, ABBA were on top of the charts around the world. Their album ‘Arrival’ was just released and in many countries on its way to the top of the album charts. And the latest single, ‘Money, Money, Money’ was already no. 1 in many countries.


In the Netherlands, ABBA-mania reached its peak that day, because ABBA paid a spectacular one day visit to the Netherlands to promote ‘Arrival’ with a full program: a press conference with gold and platinum record awards, photo sessions and interviews and to top it all, a performance in the super popular AVRO tv- program ‘Een van de 8’.
Earlier that year ‘Fernando’ and ‘Dancing Queen’ had been in the no. 1 spot of the Dutch Top 40 for many weeks. And now ‘Money Money Money’ was on its way to become their third consecutive No. 1 hit in the Netherlands within six months. ABBA was super hot.

This is one of the long lost tapes of that tv program in which ABBA did three songs from 'Arrival': ‘Money, Money, Money’, ‘When I Kissed The Teacher’ and ‘Why Did It Have To Be Me’.

"Money, Money, Money" was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. It was released as a single on 1 November 1976, as the follow-up to "Dancing Queen" (both from the album Arrival). The B-side, "Crazy World", was recorded in 1974 during the sessions for the album ABBA. The song (originally titled "Gypsy Girl") is sung from the viewpoint of a woman who, despite hard work, can barely keep her finances in surplus, and therefore desires a well-off man.
It reached the no. 1 position in The Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany, and no. 2 in norway, and Switzerland. In the UK it reached #3.

Today, May 15, 2021, just in time before the Eurovision Song Contest kicks off in the Netherlands next week, we can present to you the premiere of this clip from that performance. In coming weeks we will upload the other two songs.
Enjoy!


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Broadcast date:
November 19, 1976

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The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives.

AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988.

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TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.
World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.