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Every pop band seems to have a song like this. One that goes off the rails in an entirely different direction from either its album or the band's sound to form the sort of train wreck that often needs to be heard to be believed. In the '70s, songs like this were common enough and were generally attributed to the use of hallucinogenic drugs. As in, "What the hell were they smoking when they wrote this?" Abba always had a squeaky clean image that suggested they never went near the stuff.
Then you hear something like this. Like most Benny & Björn compositions, it's catchy as all hell and you will have this stuck in your head at some point if you hear it.
For Styx, the song was 'Plexiglas Toilet'.
The Eagles had 'The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks'
This one is Abba's. | - Stavro Arrgolus |
| Facts: |
| The working title of this song was 'Mr. Sex'. One has to wonder what the original lyrics for that were like. (Stavro Arrgolus) |
| From the album 'Waterloo' (Polar Music AB, 1974). This album, which was made to capitalize on their victory in the Eurovision Song Contest, actually has a few strange songs that might qualify for inclusion on this site, but this is the only amusing one. (Stavro Arrgolus) |
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| Song Lyrics: |
Well, I was looking at a movie on the TV last night
Then I had a very funny notion, yeah
I really had to write a song about it
And then I'm gonna sing it with my rock 'n' roll band
And I bet the people gonna like it, yeah
I know that everybody's gonna shout it
And what a dreadful mighty killer
A big black wild gorilla
We do the King Kong song, won't you sing along
Listen to the music and it couldn't go wrong
We do the King Kong song, gotta sing along
Can't you hear the beating of the monkey tom-tom
Listen to the rhythm of the King Kong song
Now we can make the jungle out of any old place
We can make gorillas out of people, yeah
Well, who can tell a monkey from a monkey
So people get together, gonna have a good time
Everybody listen to the music, yeah
'Cause what we're gonna sing is kinda funky
So let your arms hang down
And waddle all around
Like a dreadful mighty killer
A big black wild gorilla
We do the King Kong song, won't you sing along
Listen to the music and it couldn't go wrong
We do the King Kong song, gotta sing along
Can't you hear the beating of the monkey tom-tom
Listen to the rhythm of the King Kong song
Like a dreadful mighty killer
A big black wild gorilla
We do the King Kong song, won't you sing along
Listen to the music and it couldn't go wrong
We do the King Kong song, gotta sing along
Can't you hear the beating of the monkey tom-tom
Listen to the rhythm of the King Kong song
We do the King Kong song, won't you sing along
Listen to the music and it couldn't go wrong
We do the King Kong song, gotta sing along
Can't you hear the beating of the monkey tom-tom
Listen to the rhythm of the King Kong song
©1974 Universal/Union Songs AB (Stavro Arrgolus) |
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Current Rating
9.0
(1 vote)
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| Played on 14 shows: |
 | 05-06-23, #KMCC-17-18 | | 05-01-21, #KMCC-15-18 |
| 10-16-21, #AOTA-211016 | | 03-28-20, #KMCC-14-16 |
| 05-01-21, #KMCC-15-18 | | 10-31-17, #MMS-218 |
| 05-01-21, #KMCC-15-18 | | 04-15-17, #KMCC-11-16 |
| 05-01-21, #KMCC-15-18 | | 08-13-16, #AOTA-160813 |
| 05-01-21, #KMCC-15-18 | | 07-07-13, #MMS-163 |
| 05-01-21, #KMCC-15-18 | | 01-22-11, #MMS-139 |
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