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She is enamoured with him, and is impressed with his playing, but he doesn’t know she exists. Whereas in “Dum Dum Diddle” the story revolves around a woman who (probably) lives in an apartment block probably next door/ directly above or below a man who plays the fiddle/violin (Dum Dum Violin just doesn’t make sense). “One Floor Below Me, You Don’t Even Know Me, I Love You” With “Knock Three Times” the story revolves around a man who lives in an apartment above a woman whom he secretly admires but she doesn’t know he exists. The Lyrics for Dum Dum Diddle have a lot in common with the lyrics of the international hit: Knock Three Times. Ĭrazy word is a bad song and deserves a B.side place but this one is almost a masterpiece compared to all the pop songs in the world ! The melody is superb like 99% of Abba’s melodies. I think Bjorn ,maybe, was thinking about the album as a whole ,and compared to the rest of the songs ,it seems a “weaker” song ,but if the band thought that it was bad at the time ,they would have put it as a B.side ,it’s a piece of celtic anthology simply mixed with italian sensualism (it makes me think of an italian seventies film comparing the violin and a female body) i put it on my blog of abba reviews. I love Dum Dum Diddle I think its a fantastic song. And I think bjorn began to realize this and most of his later lyrics are more meaningful in content. In America in 1977 this kind of song would be not be looked at kindly by critics-it seemed like too much of a bubble gummy approach to songwriting. I think the problem is that the lyric calls attention to itself-it seems like a silly, meaningless lyric. The lyrics do actually suit the song, the melody is great, the hooks in the song are good,etc. I thought Dum Dum Diddle was a fun sort of song I can’t see anything wrong with it.
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You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.Ħ Responses to “Dum Dum Diddle – it’s not that bad” You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on 6 August, 2011 at 05:36 and is filed under ABBA, History. ABBA were no strangers to nonsense lyrics either 1975’s ‘Bang-A-Boomerang’ featuring the couplet “dummi-dum-dummi, dummi, dum-dum/love is a tune you hummy-hum-hum”.Ĭonversely a stripped down version performed at the B&B tribute concerts in the late 90s by Helen Sjöholm, accompanied by solo violin played by Kalle Moraeus, has been highly praised for the way the arrangement suited the lyrics. “Nonsense” words in a song are as old as popular music, stretching back to ‘Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da’, ‘Da Doo Ron Ron’, ‘Tutti Frutti’ (“a-wop-bop-a-lu-bop a-lop-bam-boom”) and ‘Aba Daba Honeymoon’ (“Aba-daba-daba-daba-daba-daba-dab”). ABBA would revisit similar territory in 1980 with ‘Andante, Andante’ on Super Trouper. ABBA performed it live on the 1976 television special ABBA-dabba-doo!! and also on the European and Australian concert tour in January-March 1977.īut is there anything really wrong with the lyrics? Songs equating love with a musical instrument are nothing new. Though it was not an international single release, it was a featured track on the Arrival album. Björn described writing the lyrics almost at the last minute before a scheduled recording session, saying “it might as well have been Dumb Dumb Diddle!”.ĪBBA obviously didn’t think the song was so bad at the time. The criticism seems to have started around 1994, when Björn discussed the song in Carl Magnus Palm’s book ABBA – The Complete Recording Sessions. Common criticisms focus on the lyrics, the instrumental backing and especially the title, which seems to tarnish the whole song.
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One of the most criticised songs in ABBA’s catalogue is ‘Dum Dum Diddle’, from the 1976 Arrival album.