Released March 1971 Length 35:46 Release date 1971 Genres Pop music, Easy listening | Studio EMI Studios, Stockholm Artist Anni-Frid Lyngstad Producer Benny Andersson | |
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Recorded 8 September 1970 – 15 January 1971
12 – 23 July 1971 ('Min Egen Stad') Frida
(1971) Anni-Frid Lyngstad
(1972) Label Columbia Graphophone Company Similar Anni-Frid Lyngstad albums, Pop music albums | ||
Frida is the debut album by Swedish singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad, prior to her formation with ABBA. This album is included in the EMI compilation, Frida 1967–1972.
Contents
Frida i know there s something going on
Overview
By the time of the album's release, Lyngstad had been signed to EMI/Columbia for four years. Frida, recorded between September 1970 and January 1971, produced by her then-fiancé Benny Andersson, was to be her first full-length studio album for EMI.
Reception and re-release
The album received unanimously generous praise from the critics, who especially noted the precision and versatility of Frida as a vocalist. For example, Sweden's biggest morning paper Dagens Nyheter (Daily News) wrote: "Professional, sure and certain LP-debut...low key but self-sure personality with sprinkles of both temperament, humor and tenderness. And she sings in this way that you understand she´s got something between her ears - she sings with others words in a very intelligent way". The album was also re-released the following year as she had her first Svensktoppen number one, "Min Egen Stad" in 24 October 1971, consequently adding this song as the opening track to side two. This version of the album was later given a third release in 1974, as a compilation under the name EMI:s Stjärnserie Vol. 7 [sic] (EMI Star Series).
Unreleased sessions
A cover version of The Beatles' "The Long and Winding Road" from the Frida sessions remained unreleased, until it was leaked by a YouTube channel, 'ABBAtalk' in December 2013.
Personnel
Songs
1Tre kvart från nu3:14
2Jag Blir Galen När Jag Tänker På Dej (Goin' Out Of My Head)3:27
3Lycka2:59