Thank You for the Music

Hey everyone, this is my first post on this new blog "music of the day".

Music always makes my day, so how about you take a small break from whatever you're doing and enjoy few minutes of good music, and I'm hoping it could make your day too.

I'll be suggesting a song for you daily from different genres and decades, giving you some small tips and info about each one I recommend. Hope you enjoy it and feel free to give me your honest opinions, feedbacks and suggestions.

To pay my respect for music, I'm gonna start with a song that simply expresses the passion for music we all have and its importance in our lives that makes us lucky to have it.

A great combination of lyrics, music and of course vocals, "Thank You For The Music" by the great Swedish pop legends "ABBA" is a pop/europop song written and composed by two of the group's own members "Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus". It was first featured in their 5th album "ABBA: The Album" released in 1977 and later re-released as a single on November 6, 1983. Not to mention that "Thank You For The Music" was more known as one of the main songs in the worldwide musical "Mamma Mia!".

Here's a link to the song performed live by Abba:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dcbw4IEY5w

And here are the lyrics:

"Thank You For The Music"

I'm nothing special, in fact I'm a bit of a bore

If I tell a joke, you've probably heard it before

But I have a talent, a wonderful thing

'Cause everyone listens when I start to sing

I'm so grateful and proud

All I want is to sing it out loud

So I say

Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing

Thanks for all the joy they're bringing

Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty

What would life be?

Without a song or a dance what are we?

So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me

Mother says I was a dancer before I could walk
She says I began to sing long before I could talk
And I've often wondered, how did it all start?
Who found out that nothing can capture a heart
Like a melody can?
Well, whoever it was, I'm a fan

So I say
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing
Thanks for all the joy they're bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me

I've been so lucky, I am the girl with golden hair
I wanna sing it out to everybody
What a joy, what a life, what a chance!

So I say
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing
Thanks for all the joy they're bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me.


Cheers :)