"Lay All Your Love on Me"
Single byABBA
from the albumSuper Trouper
B-side	"On and On and On"
Released	10 July 1981 (1981-07-10)[1]
Recorded	September–October 1980
Genre	Dance-pop[2] electro-disco[3]
Length	4:32
Label	Polar Epic (UK) Polydor (Germany and Netherlands) Vogue (France)
Songwriters	Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus
Producers	Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus
ABBA singles chronology
"Andante, Andante" (1981) "Lay All Your Love on Me" (1981) "One of Us" (1981)
Lyric video
"Lay All Your Love On Me" onYouTube

"Lay All Your Love on Me" is a song recorded by the Swedish pop groupABBA for their seventh studio album,Super Trouper (1980). The song features lead vocals byAgnetha Fältskog. It was originally not intended as a single byPolar Music, the group's label, but a remix version of the track gained major popularity in nightclubs. As a result, "Lay All Your Love on Me" was released on 10 July 1981, asSuper Trouper's sixth and final single, only in certain territories and only as a12-inch single.

"Lay All Your Love on Me" became a chart success, charting at number seven on theUK singles chart and becoming the then-highest selling 12-inch single in UK chart history. In the United States, the song peaked atop theBillboardDance Club Songs chart. It has gone on to become one of the group's most enduring hits.Slant Magazine ranked the song at number 60 in their list of the greatest dance songs of all time in 2006,^[4] and number 66 in the revised 2020 list.^[5]

"Lay All Your Love on Me" is an electro-disco song penned byBenny Andersson andBjörn Ulvaeus, withAgnetha Fältskog singing lead. Recording began at Polar Music Studios in Stockholm on 9 September 1980, with the final mix of the song being completed on 10 October 1980. It is known for a descending vocal sound at the end of the verse immediately preceding the refrain. This was achieved by sending the vocal into a harmoniser device, which was set up to produce a slightly lower-pitched version of the vocal. In turn its output was fed back to its input, thereby continually lowering the pitch of the vocal. Andersson and Ulvaeus felt that the chorus of the song sounded like a hymn, so parts of the vocals in the choruses were run through avocoder, to recreate the sound of a church congregation singing, slightly out of tune.^[6] The song was not originally intended to be released as a single, but was issued in 12-inch form in the UK and a few other countries in 1981. "Lay All Your Love on Me" has since been much covered and is also featured in theMamma Mia! musical (andits film adaptation), that showcases many of ABBA's hits.

ABBA did not film a promotional video for "Lay All Your Love on Me", and soEpic hastily assembled a video (at a cost of £3,500) by using excerpts from the existing ABBA videos for "Take a Chance on Me", "Summer Night City", "The Name of the Game", "I Have a Dream", "Voulez-Vous" and "The Winner Takes It All". It was never shown on TV because Epic managers thought it "wasn't needed", but was included on theABBA GoldVHS.^[7]

As "Lay All Your Love on Me" was not intended to be a single, it was not released until 1981, the year after it had been recorded. It was only after aremixed version by Raul A. Rodriguez^[8] - (aka C.O.D) of Disconet - had soared in popularity in nightclubs, that it topped the USHot Dance Club Play chart (along with "Super Trouper" and "On and on and On").^[9] Therefore, the decision was made to release "Lay All Your Love on Me" in limited territories in 12-inch form, as opposed to the standard 7-inch record. It peaked at No. 7 in the UK, becoming ABBA's lowest charting single since "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" in 1975. However, reaching No. 7 in the charts was, at the time, the highest charting position achieved for a 12-inch only release in the UK. "Lay All Your Love on Me" also charted in Ireland (No. 8), Belgium (No. 13) andWest Germany (No. 26).

As of September 2021, it is ABBA's 17th-biggest song in the UK, including both pure sales and digital streams.^[10]

In 2006,Slant Magazine ranked "Lay All Your Love on Me" No. 60 in their list of the greatest dance songs of all time,^[11] and No. 66 in the updated 2020 list.^[12] In September 2024, Swedish national radioSveriges Radio P3 ranked it among the world's 300 best songs.^[13]

• Agnetha Fältskog – lead vocals
• Anni-Frid Lyngstad – backing vocals
• Benny Andersson – keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals
• Björn Ulvaeus – guitar, backing vocals
• Lasse Wellander – guitar
• Rutger Gunnarsson – bass
• Ola Brunkert – drums
• Harry Bisset – piano and vocals

"Lay All Your Love on Me"
Single byInformation Society
from the albumInformation Society
Released	1989
Label	Tommy Boy
Songwriters	Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus
Information Society singles chronology
"Repetition" (1989) "Lay All Your Love on Me" (1989) "Think" (1990)

"Lay All Your Love on Me" was covered by Americansynth-pop bandInformation Society on their 1988 first albumInformation Society. The track peaked at No. 83 on the USBillboard Hot 100 in 1989. It was later included on the compilationABBA: A Tribute – The 25th Anniversary Celebration.

Track listing

1. "Lay All Your Love on Me" (Justin Strauss Remix)
2. "Lay All Your Love on Me" (Restricted Re-mix)
3. "Lay All Your Love on Me" (Prohibited Dub)
4. "Lay All Your Love on Me" (Radio Hot Mix)
5. "Lay All Your Love on Me" (Phil Harding Metal Mega-Mix)
6. "Funky at 45"

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• Tommy Boy Records singles
• Songs about jealousy

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