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BeckyFan456
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 25 ก.พ. 2021
Just a girl who likes art, ABBA, and birds. I post mostly ABBA content of course, but other stuff as well sometimes. idk.
Evolution of Chess Songs
We've had a lot of demos for Bjorn, Benny, and Tim Rice's musical Chess emerge throughout the years, and I thought it would be fun to delve into the different versions that we have for certain songs, from early demo with simple lyrics and vocals to the final completed version as heard in the concept album, much like my Evolution of ABBA songs video I made a while back.
For this video I also included pieces of ABBA songs that ultimately became Chess tracks, or at least demos that never ended up making it into the musical.
I've had the idea for this video for a while now, but considering this year marks Chess' 40th anniversary, it seemed like the best time to do it.
Now I will say I've never actually been all that familiar with the songs with the exception of a few standout songs, so in preparation for this video I watched 2009's Chess In Concert, starring Idina Menzel, Josh Groban, and Adam Pascal just to name a few, and after all these years I finally seem to have a more proper idea of what the musical is about, and since watching that and then subsequently working on this video, I keep on getting the songs stuck in my head!
Despite all that, I still wouldn't consider myself a Chess expert, so I cannot guarantee with certainty the accuracy of the information in this video. However most of the information I used comes from Tim Rice's own podcast, and I assume that is accurate considering he literally wrote the musical with the Bs. So if there are any errors, please be kind.
Anyway, I did the best I could and am pretty happy with the way this video turned out, and I hope you enjoy it too.
SOURCES:
th-cam.com/play/PLJXZBZgbQ7a9hHKdTuzRs_SRIbV5naCN1.html&si=TOkmmkpwqFzbd-0d
For this video I also included pieces of ABBA songs that ultimately became Chess tracks, or at least demos that never ended up making it into the musical.
I've had the idea for this video for a while now, but considering this year marks Chess' 40th anniversary, it seemed like the best time to do it.
Now I will say I've never actually been all that familiar with the songs with the exception of a few standout songs, so in preparation for this video I watched 2009's Chess In Concert, starring Idina Menzel, Josh Groban, and Adam Pascal just to name a few, and after all these years I finally seem to have a more proper idea of what the musical is about, and since watching that and then subsequently working on this video, I keep on getting the songs stuck in my head!
Despite all that, I still wouldn't consider myself a Chess expert, so I cannot guarantee with certainty the accuracy of the information in this video. However most of the information I used comes from Tim Rice's own podcast, and I assume that is accurate considering he literally wrote the musical with the Bs. So if there are any errors, please be kind.
Anyway, I did the best I could and am pretty happy with the way this video turned out, and I hope you enjoy it too.
SOURCES:
th-cam.com/play/PLJXZBZgbQ7a9hHKdTuzRs_SRIbV5naCN1.html&si=TOkmmkpwqFzbd-0d
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Wow - I’ve never noticed that part of Hovas Vittne in Merano! 😮
I know him so well really sounds like an ABBA song that was repurposed for the Music
By the way the other Every Good Man demo is sung by Benny, Bjorn and Tim. Not Murray Head.
Glad you found my uploads of Chess demos useful! That dodgy old cassette from 20+ years ago was wonderful. A few other evolutions went into the Swedish production. When the waves turned into ‘Glöm mig om du kan’. Press Conference was used in the Swedish version of The Arbitor and Lullaby from the Broadway production started as the Gemini song ‘when I close my eyes’ and was also featured before the Swedish version of someone else’s story. ABBA’s unreleased Lady Bird would feature parts that went into Someone Else’s Story. However to mention all the other bits and pieces from all the chess demos we know that went into future B&B compositions are very numerous!
Thank you so much for the information, and for the uploads! I only just recently delved into the very vast world of Chess the musical so this is quite informative! ❤️ Also I have every intention of creating a playlist of all my source videos, I just haven't yet gotten around to it! ☺️
When the Waves Roll Out to Sea did end up in the Swedish version of the musical as Glöm mig om du kan (Forget Me If You Can) Here: th-cam.com/video/tvFt3POHfrA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ovJZFhE0vPKmSIuM Also, if I remember correctly, the second Every Good Man demo is actually sung by Benny and Tim Rice themselves! Great job on this video! I love Chess and it’s always great to see how it evolved to become the masterpiece it is. Some suggestions I have for maybe a future updated version of the video: - You can find here on TH-cam a demo sung by Karin Glenmark, known as Eyes of a Young Man which retained only its chorus to become You and I in its final version! - The original finale for the musical countains a small portion of a melody. In the Broadway version, it was edited to become Lullaby. It was later reused to become When I Close My Eyes by Gemini.
I have the Karin demo of You And I (eyes of a young man) on my channel along with some of the other demos used in this video.
Love your creativity Becky. Keep us entertained please! 😊 Love to you , Happy Thanksgiving! ❤
C'était trop génial . Pity the Child interprété par Bjorn était tout simplement magnifique . Merci Beckyfan56 pour le partage
This was Awesome! Awesome Creativity... thank you for sharing! 💖 Happy Thanksgiving! 🧡🦃💛
💕 Love them ❤
Sorry . Mistake. The song "Arrival " appears in the Polish television program " ABBA w Studio 2 " 😜
How's beautiful agnetha faltsborg from Jeremy
I'll never get over Frida and Agnetha slow dancing. How cute!
Nice correction.
❤❤
Merci, i say this my favorite Frida cover......tears in my eyes. Thanks for all the clips.
Love her so much ❤
Fantastic Frida 😊😊😊
Beautiful! ♥️
Magnifique ABBA ❤️❤❤ Très beau groupe
Frida est vraiment très jolie , je l'aime beaucoup . Je lui souhaite un très joyeux anniversaire ❤❤
❤🎉👏❤️
Missed this first time around .FRida's voice magical..the ballads beautiful, every song a winner. Enjoyed this so much. Versatility amazing..Thank you for sharing..❤
This deserves way more views! People should LISTEN only to this, without watching, to guess the songs. Not all are immediately obvious. That KMKY bit... so unexpected. Of course it would have been subliminally playing into my appreciation of that song (its in my top 4), and that guitar riff is the greatest in music history, imo. So not just the guitar after all... Benny's still working his magic too with BAO. Of course, it cant go on an ABBA vid but 'Om det bara vore sa latt' has some nice piano in it, just to name one.
Beautiful❤
ABBA sang Waterloo in French, German, Swedish and English. As well as four other songs I believe.
Seems like the vast majority of their songs they never performed live. And they never got to perform the CHESS songs either, though Frida was known to have sung along with the CHESS singles when behind the scenes and watching the show. Agnetha did record an early demo of what would become 'Heaven Help My Heart' with a different title, but again just in the studio.
Agnetha is an extraordinary combination of beauty, amazing voice, and she moves just fine. She is my favorite female vocalist of all time. I love all four of them and together ABBA is absolutely sensational!
sadly it reminds me of Trump's T-rex moves
Magique ABBA ❤❤❤❤
ABBA ❤
Powerful to this day. Love when she waves her hands when she sings "go away!"
Warum verbietet man nicht so einen Blödsinn
1:46 I only just realised she sings "and some prefer home." What the line needed to be was "and some prefer to stay right at home"
Ooooowh she's magical
omg the iconic 1977 white and gold dresses are to die for. Anyone knkw where to buy them, kr have them tailored. Im about tk sell my left kidney 16:46
Shed give crystal gale a run for her money if shed never cut her hair
For me its the Australian tour red hair ❤❤❤
Delicious
Third chorus, rotary dialing! Who remembers those days?
💔
Агнета! Прекрасна! ❤🇷🇺
Frida es insuperable ❤️❤️
Thank you Dear Becky for your hard work , dedication and this contribution to ABBA'S awesome gift of Music to us. All these great songs bring back fond memories. Have a colorful weekend! You rock ! 🌹
La voz de Frida es mas profunda y oscura . Pero Agnetha es sublime .....😍
Beautiful work of Art! 🎨 Awesome Creativity... thank you for sharing! 💖
They seem to really support each other through the years, which is lovely.
ahhhhh bless you my dear becky. xxxxxxx would you ever consider publishing your list of their songs on here in chronological order please? i think there might be a very slim chance that i don't know all of theirs. i would certainly be most interested to see if our lists compare well too.
Thank you! Well, I pretty much use this list from ABBA Omnibus (abbaomnibus.com/songs/chronological/) for the chronological order, but also a lot of the time I'll just list songs in the order that they appear in the albums in album-release order.
@@beckyfan456 hiya, thank you for taking some time to reply to me, and so promptly. i too have one playlist in the order that they appear from their albums. i was just wondering if you do the same as me with the 'b' sides like 'lovelight' that were not on their albums and place them immediately afterwards? it took a bit of time to get used to that as i too am used to listen solely to their albums so to hear an added song confused me some. lol.
Oh yeah, I include the B-sides/album-less tracks usually at the end of each album that they correspond to. I have all the 2001 CDs that include most of the B-sides on the album, so I'm used to hearing them in that order. Although sometimes I like to go off of when the song was originally recorded, but then it gets a bit tricky as to where to include Just A Notion, haha.
@@beckyfan456 i can tell you must be considerably younger than my 62 years. lol yes 'just a notion' would throw you out of that sync. and also 'just like that', one of five of my all time favourites, might do the same IF/WHEN they release their next album with that on it. hope, thank the good goddess above, below, beyond and within that we always have hope. lol bless you for all your love and admiration for this most fabbaulous band. it's a joy to read all the comments from everyone from your site who clearly relish in all your efforts too.
I was 55 when I saw this video
I don’t know if this counts, but in Lovelight Agnetha sings “this old dirty ceiling seems a little whiter.”
i would say it does. well caught.
Dreamworld is one of my favorite ABBA songs. I would’ve taken that on the Voulez-Vous album over as good as new.