This early Abba song feels like the first day of spring,after a long dark cold winter.And suddenly you got the sun out in a clearblue sky.And all birds and flowers give away their best sounds and perfumes to make nature feel safe and look and smell beautiful.The ''Abba effect" as you have said it.

@randyspence6253

4 ай бұрын

That description makes me relate c to Bumblebee from the new Voyage disk. FRIDA at her best singing about sitting in a garden watching Bumblebee 's ,and feeling absolute peace while doing so.

@christianoazzuro6711

4 ай бұрын

@@randyspence6253 Hmm,quite a connection.I belong to the team that loves both BB/LT from Voyage.Frida had said about BB, 'I sing this with my heart".As for HH i always had the sense of spring whenever this song dropped.This one and TACOM could be a fine booster to make your day.listening this first thing in the morning....just saying.

Björn (ö sounds like the first two letters in the word earn) is his name.

Hi Chase, the male part was sung by Bjorn. I'm hoping that you could react to ABBA's One Man One Woman ❤ and Move On ❤

@raywright8226

4 ай бұрын

Move On is stunning 😄🙏

I've always regarded ABBA's "Honey Honey" as sort of a response to The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar" from 1969.

@SapphireZucchini-xb3vr

4 ай бұрын

Good call... You know your music!

Abba has one of the biggest catalogues you'll find which is amazing considering their popular time was only from about 1974 to 1982.

@electromaniac1

4 ай бұрын

Yep! Although songs before 1974 is worth listening to as well. But they developed their song writing and recordings a lot.

They know how to make bangers.. Or earworms😅 the melody, the "hook", they have it all

The thing about ABBAs music...it's unlike anything ever made. Often melancholy yet happy.

Björn is singing.❤he Wright all the lyrics.

A very catchy and suggestive song!. In one video of Honey, Honey they all wear blue outfits. The distinctive male voice is none other than Björn.

This is the song that made me want to buy anything abba released. Waterloo is okay but this far out surpassed it. After buying honey honey I never stopped. I remember I was in my room and heard this on the radio for the first time and was like wow!!!! I just had to hear more😊

This wonderful song was released FIFTY years ago on the 30th April this year.

Hi Chase! Honey Honey was released as a single in 1974 in some territories after the success of the Eurovision winner Waterloo & from the group’s second studio album also called Waterloo. It’s a duet between Agnetha & Frida with Bjorn (pronounced B-earn) also on vocals ‘answering’ the girls. Thanks for your enthusiastic response as usual, it’s great to see the younger generation enjoying ABBA’s masterpieces of music!❤

@gypsyroadhog

4 ай бұрын

Wasn’t released by ABBA in the UK as remember Sweet Dreams having a hit with it

There is a live version of that song in Abba live in Germany

Brings back memories of young sunny days. The Sun has never been so bright as when I first heard this song so many years ago.

Feel good song....perfect to begin my day..thanks

Abba stans for 4 members. And they beginns on the first capital in their name. A= Agneta B= Björn B= Benny A= Annifrid (Frida) Thank you! 😍🤗

Make playlists for your reactions so we can easily see what you've already reacted to 🙂

@SapphireZucchini-xb3vr

4 ай бұрын

I made a playlist of Chase reacting to ABBA songs. "Honey Honey" brings the total to 33. Hopefully I haven't missed any! kzread.info/dash/bejne/mKKnksiGkdCef7g.html

This was the single released after Waterloo. Hit the top 30 in the US.

It's the most sugar sweet bubblegum pop song you could imagine. I love it, it should've been a huge song for them. I think the sound you mentioned is a guitar with all strings held down and strummed but I can't say for sure. I don't think you've seen any of their live performances so I'd recommend The Way Old Friends Do, which they only performed live. A beautiful song

This was one of their first songs I ever heard on the radio that piqued my interest in them. Please go back and do all the videos for this and others you have missed as you really are missing even more of that "ABBA EFFECT". Benny does dual backing with Bjorn on most songs and its a shame he only ever did lead vocal on one as he has a lovely voice.

Bjorn is singing the male solo part. Pronounced (Byorn)

polly brown up up up in a puff of smoke ;)

@RaynorBear

4 ай бұрын

Yes! Yes! Yes! I thought I was the only one left in the world that still likes that song and watches her video of it.

There is a detail that few people notice in this song and that I look forward to every time I listen to it. Just before Björn singing, both times the girls are making some intense rhythmic sighs; very very very sexy.

You are so right about this being so positive and upbeat. And the other guy's name is Bjorn

Pioneers in the use of synths

This was one of their earliest hits!

You need to see video amd view their amazing ridiculous costumes. The male singers in this sing are Benny and Bjorn

Hi Chase. Great reaction as always. Can you listen to Love To Hate You by Erasure please? I think you'd enjoy it. They are big ABBA fans and even released a cover of 4 Abba tracks in 1991.

Great reaction Chase. It's Bjorn singing in this. Quick Cheartsheet on pronunciation (Swedish 101): Agnetha - (Ahn-yay-ta) Benny Bjorn (Bee -yorn) Frida (e.g. Anifrid- Anna-Freed). This is one of their earlier pieces.

@electromaniac1

4 ай бұрын

Agnetha should be more like Ahn-ye-ta.

@ArthurVerhulst

4 ай бұрын

Björn

@Asa...S

4 ай бұрын

Agneta is pronounced Ang-Neh-Tah, with a stress on the Ne-part. There is not "ye"-sound in her name, her name isn't "Anjeta". Björn rhymes with earn and learn, not with born or corn. It's like the word "yearn" with a b in front of it. B-yearn. It's Annifrid isn't "Anna-Freed" it's more like "Anni-Freed", with the stress on the "ni"-part.

@ArthurVerhulst

4 ай бұрын

@@Asa...S Exactly

This is a classic abba mood lifter! Bjorn is the mail vocalist (he does allmost all the mail solo vocals (a few by Benny in the early days)

We in German-speaking Central Europe and also in Sweden call this style of music "Schlager" - we young people weren't that enthusiastic back then - but this single was very successful, even one of the best-selling ABBA titles in Germany; internationally rather a flop, also So Long. The next single I Do I Do I Do was again a hit for us (for me that sax solo save this "postwar dance" song), but was no.15 in USA no.15, even no.1 in AUS+NZ!!! Then came the worldwide hit SOS.

@christianoazzuro6711

4 ай бұрын

Yes in w,Germany it peaked no2 and stuck in the top 5 for a dazzling 4 months(!) period.A solid hit.Also was top 5 in Switzerland and Austria top 10 in Danish charts but a smaller hit in other markets.Surprisingly top 30 US despite its European sound.UK wasn't released in vynil as an Abba single at the time(1974).It got released as a single there in other formats by Universal in 2004 and finally got a silver sales award.

@alexioverdo5225

4 ай бұрын

BTW It was covered by a duo called (Sweet Dreams as a fellow fan also mentioned here in the text) and was a top 10 UK hit at the time but Abba's version is still fresh and popular while that one sounds( imo)quite a poor,worn out production and lost its charm as time went by.

@alexioverdo5225

4 ай бұрын

I would categorise HH early '70s Bubblegum/Europop or kinda polished 'middle of the road" the Abba way.But 'I DO" yes it's really Schlager flavoured and that was my uncles fave music.he loved Schlager and German Polka stuff he had plenty of vynils with such kind of music he always purchased whenever he travelled there..

you should checkout movies mama mia and mama mia here we go again. the first one is the film version of the worldwide stage musical that benny and bjorn helped create. they have many abba song's in and a top cast. also 90's aussie movie muriel's wedding where muriel uses abba songs as her emotional crutch.again many abba songs.starring toni collette the mum from sixth scence,knives out etc

Their job on earth was to make beautiful music. They nailed it !

This one was released in 1974 as a follow up to 'Waterloo', ......yes fifty years ago! Yes, it's Bjorn singing with the girls on this. Benny rarely sang, but you can hear a rare time he took the lead vocal on ABBA's "Suzy Hang Around"

Beautiful song! Great react again, Chase... Go on✌️! ❤🇨🇱🤗👍

I'm still plugging away for a reaction to Bang a Boomerang by Abba.

Bjorn (Agnetha’s husband) usually sings the guy solo. Benny rarely sings. You should react to Bjorn singing solo on Two For The Price Of One (off The Visitors album). I think I was the one who requested Honey, Honey. 😉

@ArthurVerhulst

4 ай бұрын

Björn

@siv-annsjostrom347

4 ай бұрын

Benny and Björn does the backupsinging together, he sings also on the conserts. But Benny only have one lead song, it is Suzy-hang- around from the Waterloo album😊

Supposedly ABBA were discussing whether to enter the Swedish qualification for the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo or Honey Honey. They figured the mellow Honey Honey would stand a better chance at the ESC then the more upbeat Waterloo, that was more of a break with tradition. In the end they decided the purpose of performing at the ESC was not to win, but to present themselves on the European stage, and they figured that while Waterloo probably was too modern for the ESC it had better potential to do well in the charts. In the end they won anyway, thus both transforming the ESC from being almost only ballads and chansons to start including more contemporary pop and launching themselves into a successful international career.

@eduardooscar309

4 ай бұрын

ABBA were discussing between "Waterloo" or "Hasta mañana" to go for Eurovisión Song Contest finally the right choice was to "Waterloo" and "Waterloo" was the disruptive song to win after the historic victory in Eurovisión with "Waterloo" at the Top of the Charts in UK was another discussion the new single to flollow Waterloo ABBA prefer "Honey honey" but the company choose the reentry of "Ring Ring" and "Honey honey" was a single in other countries

Hasta Mañana is one you should react to.

honey honey by polly brown sweet dreams you will love chase ;)

Bjorn's the name. An earlier Abba song. 😊

@herrbonk3635

4 ай бұрын

Björn.

Thanks, Chase! 🍯🍯

Hi Chase, have you watched Mama Mia the movie? 🙂

One of their sweeter songs. I heard this on the radio just a few hours ago. 🙂 That up and down sound is some sort of synth pad or a simple string section. Probably the latter. Bjorn (pronounced Byawn) is Swedish for John.

Covered in the UK by duo called sweet dreams the same year of 1974

@alexioverdo5225

4 ай бұрын

Yes that was a top 10 hit there by this duo.But imo their versiion hasn't aged well and sounds too poor and pale compared to Abba's.

Bjorn is singing male part in song.

to hear the correct speed of chases intro you need to slow the speed down to 0.5

It should have been the follow up single in the U.K. after Waterloo like it was in Europe.

bjorn, he sang lead ona few abba songs.

Hi, can anyone tell me what it is that Chase says in the first sentence? I've watched several of his / your reactions now, and have no idea. Sorry, just a Brit struggling with the accent!!

@ArthurVerhulst

4 ай бұрын

Chase can talk EXTREMELY fast 😆

@Mediawatcher2023

4 ай бұрын

@@ArthurVerhulst if you slowed down his voice to 0.5 you would understand him

BJORN is the other guy

Pronounce as BEE-YEARN

Hi Chase, is there a reason you don't react to the videos? Anyway nice reaction.

@jeffreyweitzman6463

4 ай бұрын

Yeah l don't get it - it isn't as if reacting to the video of it when it is on there, would incur copyright because wouldn't have been first ever to do that one and it shows off perfectly not just their voices but their playfree personalities on camera and the wild 70's costumes they were synonymous with back then. Even if it obviously isn't their official video it is a video of them actually performing it so why the heck not do that rather than just audio again.

@helenpeterson

4 ай бұрын

Missing out on so much not doing them.

@SapphireZucchini-xb3vr

4 ай бұрын

I prefer audio-only, so you get studio-quality sound. Besides, if you look for videos of the lesser-known tracks, you get lost in a maze of fan-made and lyric videos. I would rather have Chase react to an audio track rather than a poorly-edited unofficial video.

@jeffreyweitzman6463

4 ай бұрын

@@SapphireZucchini-xb3vr Yeah but we're not talking about poorly edited fan videos. I would be in agreement that those are poor choices to react to. What l am referring to as in the case of Honey Honey is actual performance video which is certainly not fan made or poorly edited.

@SapphireZucchini-xb3vr

4 ай бұрын

@@jeffreyweitzman6463 Well maybe send Chase a link to the video, and he might react to it sometime in the future. I once saw someone do 3 reactions to the same song (first the audio, then the official video, then the live performance)

Bjorn lol

best regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷 South America "Honey honey" (8pts to me) very good and catchy song It is from the post "Waterloo" era of 1974, when ABBA was looking for its second success, and the revival of "Ring ring", plus the singles "Honey honey" and "So long" did not achieve great impact and they had to wait for 1975 with the approach of "I do I do I do I do I do" and the definitive impact of "S.O.S." that will start your unbroken chain of successes "Honey honey" is from the group in which The boys on the one hand and The girls on the other sing verses in solo responding, as in the debut: "People need love" and the following: "He is your brother" and: "Love isn't easy" "Honey honey" also is the last song recorded by ABBA in swedish too There is a TV perfomance in Germany 1974, with the smash hit "Waterloo" in first time, where ABBA use the costumes of Superheroes with superpowers that they did it in 1974 from the promotional video for "Ring ring" Also there are some more TV perfomance of "Honey honey", in wich the ladies Agnetha and Frida are more seductives Honey honey for me is the best song of the full album ( only behind the tittle track "Waterloo", the smash worldwide hit)

After all these ABBA reactions, u still don't recognize Beny's voice yet. He is one of the males

@Vikinggirl1679

4 ай бұрын

He would k ow if he played the video and actually saw it!!!!!!!

@isebmazo2140

4 ай бұрын

@@Vikinggirl1679 I know he has listened to Benny sung songs from the video