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Released on 14th February 1973, "Ring Ring" gave ABBA their big break in several European countries.
Ring, Ring topped the charts in Belgium, becoming the first of 16 chart-toppers for ABBA in that country.
The Swedish version reached No. 1 in the Swedish charts, the English version peaked at No. 2 in Sweden, Norway and Austria, and reached the Top 10 in the Netherlands, South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) charts.
(On the official South African year-end chart for 1974, "Ring Ring" was placed 13th; while its successor "Waterloo" was placed as the 14th best selling singles for that year).

On 10 January 1973, Ring, Ring was recorded at the Metronome Studio in Stockholm.
Michael B. Tretow, the studio engineer, collaborated with Benny and Björn over many of their subsequent singles and albums.
Tretow had read a book about record producer Phil Spector (Richard Williams' book Out of His Head: The Sound of Phil Spector), famed for his "Wall of Sound" treatment to the songs that he produced. While Spector used several musicians playing the same instruments in the same recording studio at the same time, this was far too expensive for this case. Thus, Tretow's solution was to simply record the song's backing track twice, in order to achieve an orchestral sound. By changing the speed of the tape between the overdubs, making the instruments marginally out of tune, this increased the effect. This was unlike anything that had been done before in Swedish music.
The song was written in Swedish by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, along with their manager Stig Anderson, with an original title of "Ring Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal)" ("Ring Ring (If Only You Called)").
Translation into English lyrics was helped by Neil Sedaka and Phil Cody.