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A Funny, Funny Way is the probable title I attached to one of the songs discussed in what is many readers' favourite chapter in ABBA On Record: The Michael B. Tretow Tapes. Recorded in September 1974, during sessions for ABBA's third album, A Funny, Funny Way is a song that was never recorded properly by the group. What we hear here on the tapes is a run through with the backing musicians, featuring Björn singing dummy vocals. The tune was soon abandoned, although a bit of piano playing Benny does would show up in Intermezzo No. 1, and a part of the melody would feature in a Benny-written major hit (in Sweden) 16 years later: Lassie by the Ainbusk Singers.

Read the full story about A Funny, Funny Way – along with and many other fascinating, hitherto unknown facts and stories about a host of songs, both known and unknown – in the Tretow chapter, spanning 62 pages in ABBA On Record. In his four-star review in Record Collector, Daryl Easlea called it "the real coup" of the book. Learn more and order your copy at abbaonrecord.com.