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Another Town, Another Train

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A-side
  
"People Need Love"

Format
  
7" single

Length
  
3:13

Released
  
1973

Genre
  
Folk, pop

Recorded
  
Late 1972 to early 1973 at KMH Studios

"Another Town, Another Train" was a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA at KMH Studios.

Contents

The song was released as a 7" vinyl single in Japan in 1973 to promote the group's debut album Ring Ring. "Another Town, Another Train" was also released as a single on Playboy Records in the USA as a follow-up to the group's first single "People Need Love".

Written and performed in the style of Simon and Garfunkel and The Bachelors, the melodic ballad tells of the song's narrator leaving his love as "day is dawning". It was recorded in German under the title "Wer im Wartesaal der Liebe steht" (with lyrics by Fred Jay), as the B-side to the German version of "Ring Ring". With lyrics in Swedish, "En annan stad, en annan vän", it was covered by dance band Schytts in 1974, and by fellow Eurovision participant Kikki Danielsson in 1991 on her album "Vägen hem till dej".

Official versions

  • "Another Town, Another Train" (English version)
  • "Wer im Wartesaal der Liebe steht" (German version)
  • Cover versions

  • A Swedish country band called Nashville Train (which included some of ABBA's own backing band members) covered the song in 1977 on their album ABBA Our Way, released on the Polar Music label in Sweden.
  • References

    Another Town, Another Train Wikipedia