Waterloo - Original 1974 Spanish Carnaby label 12-track LP

Original 19674 Spanish Carnaby label 12-track LP - grand Swedish pop quartets 2nd album - released after Abba winning the april 1974 Eurovision Song Contest - launching their carreer internationally - featuring the singles "Waterloo", "Honey, Honey", "Hasta Manana" & "King Kong Song".

Vinyl has the generic blue and black printed company labels with top very large fonted ?C? with toy soldier logo and medium sized yellow company name.

Vinyl is held in a fully laminated picture cover with pre-printed "1.er Premio Eurovision 1974" text.

Condition: VG+ (Vinyl and Labels)/VG+(+) (Cover):
Vinyl is bright and shiny - has a small inaudible pressing fault on Side 1 and a series of light and inaudible parallel marks on Side 2 - paired with just a touch of faint sleeve wear.

Labels are mint and vinyl plays straight and great all the way through - vinyl is overall graded VG+.

Cover has a little horizontal laminate-wrinkling - which is a very common characteristic with cover from Southern Europe. This have had no influence on the grading.
Vinyl has hardly any wear to the front and back cover surface - only a little light wrinkling from edges or along opening.
Cover displays almost no damage to seams or corners - very small areas of laminate lift against back-spine corners. All in all marginal imperfections. Cover is overall graded close to near mint/excellent.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Waterloo (Swedish version) (Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus) 2:45
2. Sitting in the Palmtree 3:39
3. King Kong Song 3:14
4. Hasta Mañana (Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus) 3:05
5. My Mama Said 3:14
6. Dance (While the Music Still Goes On) 3:05

Side 2:
1.Ring Ring (Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus) 3:00
2. Honey, Honey (Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus) 2:56
3. Watch Out 3:46
3. What About Livingstone? 2:54
4. Gonna Sing You My Lovesong 3:35
5.Suzy-Hang-Around 3:11

All songs written and composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, except where noted.

Recorded 24 September 1973 - 20 February 1974 at Metronome Studios, Stockholm

Credits:

Abba:
Benny Andersson - piano, keyboards, vocals, moog synthesizer, mellotron, clavinet, lead vocals on "Suzy Hang-Around"
Agnetha Fältskog - vocals
Anni-Frid Lyngstad - vocals
Björn Ulvaeus - acoustic guitar, guitar, vocals

Additional musicians:
Ola Brunkert - drums
Christer Eklund - tenor saxophone on "Waterloo"
Malando Gassama - percussion, conga on "Sitting in the Palmtree"
Rutger Gunnarsson - bass
Per Sahlberg - bass on "Dance (While the Music Still Goes On)"
Janne Schaffer - guitar
Sven-Olof Walldoff - string arrangement on "Honey, Honey"
John "Rabbit" Bundrick - keyboards on "Dance (While the Music Still Goes On)" (not credited on album)

Technical Credits:
Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus - production
Michael B. Tretow - engineer

Artwork:
Ola Lager - photography
Ron Spaulding - original album design