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| "More Stars" | ||||
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 Original Dutch 7" single sleeve | ||||
| Single by Stars on 45 | ||||
| from the album Longplay Album – Volume II | ||||
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| Released | July 1981 | |||
| Recorded | 1981 | |||
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| Producer(s) | Jaap Eggermont | |||
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| "More Stars Side 1" (7" version) on YouTube | ||||
| "More Stars (ABBA Medley)" (original single version) on YouTube | ||||
| "Volume Two" (12" version) on YouTube | ||||
"More Stars" (also known as "More Stars on 45" in the US,"Stars on 45 Vol. 2" in the UK and "More Stars on 45 II" in Canada) is a song medley released in July 1981 by the Dutch soundalike studio group Stars on 45 (credited to 'Stars On' in the US and Canada and 'Starsound' in the UK). It was the follow-up to the US and Dutch #1 and UK #2 single "Stars on 45" (released under its full 41-word title,but generally simply known as "Stars on 45 Medley"). "More Stars" was later included on the group's second album Longplay Album –Volume II (US title:Stars on Long Play II;UK title:Stars on 45 —The Album —Volume 2).
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- Formats and track listings
- Charts
- Weekly charts
- Year-end charts
- Sales and certifications
- References
- Sources and external links
The "More Stars" medley featured eight hits by Swedish group ABBA,seven of which already had been UK Top 10 hits:"Voulez-Vous" (#3,1979) "S.O.S." (#6,1975),"Money,Money,Money" (#3,1976),"Fernando" (#1,1976),"Knowing Me,Knowing You" (#1,1977),"The Winner Takes It All" (#1,1980) and "Super Trouper" (#1,1980). The eighth title chosen for the medley was somewhat surprisingly "Bang-A-Boomerang",one of ABBA's lesser known tracks and indeed only released as a single in one country:France. The eight minute plus album version of the ABBA medley which was released on CD on the 2011 30th Anniversary best of edition 30 Years Anniversary of Stars on 45 added another seven titles;"Dum Dum Diddle","Lay All Your Love on Me","On and On and On","Super Trouper" (reprise),"Summer Night City","Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" and "Stars on 45 (2)" (reprise).
The near eleven-minute 12" mix of "Volume Two" started with another,notably different medley,mainly featuring American 60s and 70s hits from the soul,R&B and folk rock genres by among others The Temptations,Smokey Robinson &the Miracles,Four Tops,The Supremes,The Mamas &the Papas,Neil Diamond and Simon &Garfunkel. This medley was later also included on the Longplay Album –Volume II in slightly re-edited form preceding "Supremes Medley" on that album.
"More Stars" became Stars on 45/Starsound's second single to peak at #2 on the UK charts and indeed a Top 10 single in most parts of Europe. In the US,where ABBA's popularity wasn't on the same scale as in Europe,Radio Records instead chose an edit of the first part of the 12" mix,starting with "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" as a 7" single,and released it as the follow-up to the second Beatles medley "Stars on 45 Medley 2",but under the same title:"More Stars" (#55, Billboard's Hot 100).
