Gimme Gimme Gimme! (a man after midnight) - HOT CLUB DU NAX PRESENTS - IZZY COPE TRIO
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This first video introduces the ’Izzy Cope Trio’ feat. the Hot Club du Nax Singer - Isobel Cope, Guitarist - Lukas Bamesreiter and Double bass player - Flo Hupfauf.
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We recorded this video in the attic of the Bäckerei Kulturbackstube in Innsbruck, Austria. It’s a Jazz cover of ’Gimme Gimme Gimme (a man after midnight)’ by Abba.
“Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)“ is a song by Swedish band ABBA. It was recorded in August 1979 in order to help promote their North American and European tour of that year, and was released on ABBA’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2 album as the brand new track.
History
“Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)“ was written and composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, with the lead vocal sung by Agnetha Fältskog. Fältskog, as the narrator, weaves the image of a lonely young woman who longs for a romantic relationship and views her loneliness as a forbidding darkness of night, even drawing parallels to how the happy endings of movie stars are so different from her own existence.[citation needed] The melody line of the song was played on an ARP Odyssey synthesizer.[3]
The song was recorded at Polar Music Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 1979, and was ready for release in October of that year, in conjunction with the group’s tour of North America and Europe.
Originally, ABBA had recorded another song, “Rubber Ball Man“, which was planned as a single. It featured the typical “ABBA-arrangement“ with both Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad on lead vocals and the use of classical strings. This song was also performed by the group during rehearsals for its 1979 tour as “Under My Sun“. However, the group felt that “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!“, with its disco sound, would be a better choice, and thus, “Rubber Ball Man“ remained nothing more than a demo
Reception
“Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)“ was another highly successful song for ABBA. It hit no. 1 in Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, and Switzerland, while reaching the Top 3 in Austria, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Norway. It also proved to be ABBA’s most successful song in Japan, hitting no. 17.
Lyrics:
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
ABBA
Half past twelve
Watchin’ the late show
In my flat all alone
How I hate to spend the evening on my own
Autumn winds blowin’ outside the window
As I look around the room
And it makes me so depressed to see the gloom
There’s not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
Won’t somebody help me
Chase the shadows away
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness
To the break of the day
Movie stars
On end of the rainbow
With a fortune to win
It’s so different from the world I’m living in
Tired of TV
I open the window
And I gaze into the night
But there’s nothing there to see no one in sight
There’s not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
Won’t somebody help me…