Vinyl Record

ABBA - Honey Honey (English) / King Kong Song

ABBA - Honey Honey (English) / King Kong Song album cover

ABBA - Honey Honey (English) / King Kong Song on 7" vinyl. A 2024 Pop record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

7" ยท 2024

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2024 7", currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Honey Honey (English) / King Kong Song revisits ABBA's 1974 Waterloo-era pop in a compact anniversary-style single format. Honey Honey is one of the group's early examples of bright melodic engineering: flirtatious, cleanly arranged and built from the kind of chorus that explains how quickly ABBA learned to make pop hooks feel effortless. King Kong Song, on the other side, is stranger and more playful, a reminder that the Waterloo album still carried traces of glam, novelty rock and theatrical exaggeration before the group fully settled into the immaculate pop architecture of their later peak. Together the two tracks give a useful snapshot of ABBA just after the Eurovision breakthrough: not yet the imperial singles machine of the late 1970s, but already unmistakable in vocal blend, studio sheen and instinct for a title phrase that refuses to leave.

The single matters because it points back to ABBA's breakthrough year and the moment when their international identity was still forming. Honey Honey shows the sweet, melodic side of early ABBA, while King Kong Song preserves the more eccentric album-track energy around the same period.

For collectors, this is an early-song pairing rather than a greatest-hits shortcut. Its appeal is the specific 2024 presentation of two Waterloo-associated tracks, useful for ABBA shelves that already have the major albums and want the smaller single-era artefacts around the breakthrough story.

Early ABBA Europop with bright harmonies, crisp rhythm guitar, playful glam-pop touches, clean studio sparkle, sugary hooks and a theatrical B-side contrast.

Recommended for: ABBA collectors focusing on the Waterloo era; Fans of early 1970s Europop singles; Listeners who enjoy ABBA's lighter and stranger album corners; Gift buyers looking for a compact ABBA collectible.

What era of ABBA does this single represent? It comes from the Waterloo period, the breakthrough era that introduced ABBA to a much wider international audience. What is the difference between the two tracks? Honey Honey is bright melodic pop, while King Kong Song is more playful, chunky and theatrical in its early-ABBA character. Is this an album or a single? It is a two-track single pairing Honey Honey (English) with King Kong Song.