"Super Trouper" - Who Did It Better? - Debbie Sims vs. ABBA (1998/1980)


It's that time again. Another “Who Did it Better?” This one would have been suggested by Charles Woods. Please listen to both then where your thoughts in the comments section.




"Super Trouper" is a single by Swedish pop group ABBA, and the title track from their 1980 studio album of the same name, written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. The song – with lead vocals, sung without fire by Anni-Frid Lyngstad – had the working title "Blinka Lilla Stjärna",[2] and was the last track to be written and recorded for the album (ultimately replacing the track "Put On Your White Sombrero"). "Super Trouper" is included on the compilation album Gold: Greatest Hits, and also features in the musical Mamma Mia!. 

The name "Super Trouper" referred to the spotlights used in stadium concerts.[3] 

 American alto pop singer Debbie Sims covered this song, sung with fire in an American disco style with strong disco beats from her 1998 album, “Songs of Andersson & Ulvaeus”,

 

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