"Dancing Queen" by Abba: Everything You Didn't Know

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Speaker 1: Too Much Information is a production of I Heart Radio. Hello everyone, and welcome to Too Much Information, the show that brings you the secret history and little alone, fascinating facts about your favorite movies, music, TV shows, and more. We're two guys with too much free time on our hands. My name is Jordan run Talk and I'm Alex Hegel. This episode is going to tackle a beloved Agelest classic that is actually celebrating significant milestone this year, so it does have an age. It's very aged. We're talking about Dancing Queen by About, which hit number one on the charts forty five years ago this April, Wow forty five. Oh my god, I gotta say I my my college job was I spent summers as a as a DJ, doing retirement parties and birthday parties and weddings and stuff like that. And dancing was what I played. When I screwed up and I killed the dance floor, that was my song I would play, as you know, please come back, Please, like we we have, I have another hour and a half I'm getting paid for, Please come back to the floor. It is truly a ubiquitous, universally beloved, almost universally beloved song and an early foreshattering of that whole part of the world's dominance of all of pop music in the Swedish. Yeah. Well, in this episode we'll try to explain why Swedes are so good at pop, which, as we'll get into, possibly involves working the engineers until they almost faint. We'll also touch on the lengthy writing process of this song, It's Long Lost Verse, it's debut before Scandinavian Royalty, why it was banned in New York City, and how it inspired everyone from Blondie and Elvis Costello to Nirvana and MGMT. So get ready, here's everything you didn't know about ABBA's Dancing Queen. History of Dancing Queen. You have to know a little bit about the history of Aba and the chief songwriters were Benny Anderson and Bjorn Alvas, who it's interesting to know, before they were in Alba they wrote for a porn I guess that's probably really the only way you could put it. But before that, in the sixties they were in sort of the Swedish equivalent of the Beatles and the Stones. Uh. Benny was in a group called the hep Stars, and that he was basically a teen star. He's been writing pop song since since he was a teenager. I think he had three number one singles in in Sweden in nineteen sixties six alone. And then their their rival band that Bjorn was in was called the Hooting Nanny Singers. They were sort of friendly rivals. You could not program more stereotypical sixties names for these This is like you know in in the spinal tap, this is their Thamesman era exactly. Yeah. But in nineteen sixty nine, the pair that would eventually be the songwriting team within Alba wrote the music for a Swedish softcore film that was titled Inga Too. The Seduction of Inga Do. I have to have seen the first Inga No. I think you can follow it. I think it's pretty easy to follow. Um. The movie was R rated, so it really it wasn't like, you know, wasn't a serious point. It was a comedic pot uh. The movie. It didn't perform well at the box office, and it was kind of a disappointing start to Bjorn and Benny's recording careers together. But the song is the main song from the movie. It's called She's My Kind of Girl, which just catchy check it out on YouTube. Was released in March of nineteen seventy and it was it was their first single together and I think it became too to borrow phrase a big hit in Japan. But the two be members of A are not the only members with an extensive history and music before the band got together. Um agnetha flt skag and please excuse our butchering of all of these people's names. Um. She actually wrote her first song when she was six years old, and an incredibly Swedish move named it two Little Trolls. She was taking piano lessons by the age of eight, singing in the church choir, and formed an early trio called the Cambers at the age of ten with two of her friends. Um. They you know, did local Swedish stuff. They played around meat balls, you know. Um. But eventually she actually was so into music that she dropped out of school at the age of fifteen to pursue her career in pop. Now, the group that will become ABBA came together in the early seventies and they were originally called Party People, which I mean, I don't know kind of fits right. They actually held a competition to determine the band's name and they had Ali Baba was an option fob F, A, B B and BABA. We're all popular contenders. These are terrible names. Well, in the end, I guess the results of the competition were completely disregarded and they just went with ABA, which, as everyone knows, is an acronym for the first letters of all four members names agnetha False Skug, Bjorn Olvos, Benny Anderson, and Anna freed lig Stag being shot. Help me out with that, okay, Um Swinging a miss and apparently are one of the only groups that have actually registered their name and logo with the copyright. I think Kiss was one of the only other groups that come to mind for that. Yeah, they would have been a real front runner, and that I feel like a lot of that's become very popular, especially with weirdly like punk bands, is how they make a lot of money, Like Interesting, the Misfits, Skull, the Black Flag Bars like all of those have been trademarked and that's how those guys make a lot of money. But you know, not back in the seventies. No, But in order to do so, Abba had to get it cleared because the name Abba and Sweden was a popular brand of pickled herring, so They actually had the license their name from a pickled Herring company, which like if your band name, and granted, they workshopped some truly awful band names. So once they found on the kind of work, they were like, we have to do we need to hold onto this. So Albar are obviously famous for not only their music, but they're insane glitzie rhyin stone cowboy meets Russian gymnastics team crazy stage outfits. Those crazy see stage outfits were actually for tax reasons. All their their platform boots and their flared pants and all that instantly recognizable. But they chose those costumes because there's a Swedish tax law where you can write off costumes as long as they couldn't conceivably be classified as daywere. So they made their costume out of things that they would never ever wear in real life, which is a very canny financial It's genius. I wish I mean just one of them. Look, this whole episode could just be called why Sweden is better than the United States. But in the seventies they were huge. I supposed to say how huge were they? Sorry? How huge were they? They were Sweden's second biggest export in the seventies, they came second only to Volvo, the popular Swedish car manufacturer. Russia paid the royalties in oil commodities, which is truly incredible. I mean, basically, the background to this is that currencies from Soviet states were embargoed during the Cold War, so they actually couldn't accept any money from their music being played in Soviet block countries in the form of rubles. So what they did was strike a deal in which they were paid their royalties in oil commodities. Really lucrative. That's insane to me. I mean, first of all, their business mind, their apprecitions that they would do that, and knowing what was going to happen to oil prices in the seventies. Maybe not knowing, maybe they looked into it, but good god, that's just insane to me. So you had another canny financial move from the folks in Alba. And my favorite Abba is huge Factoy. It is more Australians watched ABBA's nineteen seventies six TV special then watched the moon Landing. Granted the TV special had better songs. Thank you very much, I wrote, I wrote George the airline, Yeah, thank you. Um so in we talked a little bit in one of our episodes about Hook about how Hollywood is one big family and apparently the megastars of this of the music world were in the seventies much the same because led Zeppelin actually crossed paths with Abba in the seventies because they were recording In Through the Outdoor, their their last album, at ABBA's studio, and you know, as you as you do, they ended up hanging out together and so speaking to Louder Sound In, Jimmy Page actually expressed his regret that he never got to meet felt Skog at the time, because he said, I was rather hoping we were going to meet a Natha, but that wasn't part of the deal. They phrased it like that, like transactional. Yeah, I don't like that at all exactly. Robert Plant has made a much funnier claim, which is that he went out and parted with them while they were in Sweden, and he claimed that he took the two male halves of Abba to a sex club, which obviously representatives from ABBA's team have always denied, like why would they why would they say? Why would they cop to that? It would actually be much funnier if they were like very polite and very sweet. Oh yes, we went there. It was a lovely time. We used our oral commodity money. And this brings us to finally the song Dancing Queen, which drew his inspiration for some really unexpected places. They borrowed pieces of George mccraie's early nineteen seventy four disco hit rock Your Baby, which was really a pioneering disco song, I mean a couple of years earlier than you know, the songs that we normally think of as as disco, and they added a rhythmic influence came from the drumming on the nineteen seventy two album Gumbo by Dr John, which was a favorite of the Abba session drummer Roger Palm. I mean, that's that's a serious I mean we think of Albos being this sort of lightweight pop machine, and that's that's a great albums and super white and like like you think of Albos like these you know, Swedish extremely white kind of square music and to be like, oh yeah, we we took it from like the most New Orleans guy ever, like a man who pretended to be from a literal swamp in New Orleans. Um, but that's not the only uh odd start to Dancing Queen. They called the song Boogaloo based on the on the rhythms, which obviously that term has gained a lot of negative connotations with the right movement as of late, so we're not getting into that. But their influence from it came from Ringo star his hit back Off Boogaloo, which, and this just gets into six degrees of everybody in the seventies music industry, back Off Boogaloo was inspired by a phrase of Mark Boland of t Rex, So in a roundabout way, you can thank Mark Bolan and t Rex for Dancing Queen. Eventually, though, it was ABBA's manager Stig Anderson who came up with the title Dancing Queen, and he actually collaborated on the lyrics with Bjorn. And while we're talking about the lyrics to Dancing Queen, there's a long lost additional verse, kind of like the Dead Sea scrolls. Um. There was a verse recorded for this and then discarded. They decided, probably with their like rigorous democratic workshop process that led them to the name, they we don't need this extra verse, but because we love you so much, here's the extra verse. Baby, Baby, You're out of sight. Hey, you're looking all right tonight when you come to the party. Listen to the guys. They've got the look in their eyes. Let's pick that apart for a moment um. Well. So, one of the things that's interesting about this song and knowing about this is when you read about Max Martin's approach to vocals, some of the reasons why those boy band hits are so assinine is that he thinks more in terms of phonemes and how like the actual strict sonic phonetic pronunciation of of lyrics, like the sounds the words make no like, no concept of how they actually scan as the written word. And he's famous for also compying his vocal takes within an inch of his life because he's so interested comping, meaning you're cutting up specific chunk of each vocal take to stitch together one master take. Because he doesn't he's not interested in how lines and things like flow together. He's interested in how each sound it's almost comes across. Yeah, exactly, so you know, maybe it's something in the water over there, all of which leads us to these lyrics are asinine. Yeah, I mean they you could. I don't know that they have they have a charm to him. They are also some of the most misheard lyrics in rock and pop history. There was a poll that was conducted in by blink Box concerning the most commonly misheard lyrics in pop. Of the people they pulled admitted that they had mistaken the lyrics. See that girl. Watch that scene digging the Dancing Queen for see that girl, watch her scream kicking the Dancing Queen, which is so bizarre. Were they American? Like? What what country? Grafted violence onto this beautiful song and also slightly less violent but equally strange. Uh. Many also thought it was Chicken the Dancing Queen instead of Digging the Dancing Queen, which uh, I don't know. I can kind of understand that. And then there was also dancing Queen Feel the Meat on the Tangerine. I I have nothing to say about that. That is so that's that was a scene that was cut from inga commercial break. And having said all that, we'll be right back with more too much information right after this, Well, you mentioned the rigorous process that Alba had for pretty much doing everything. Apparently the song took six months to write. I mean, it makes sense to me because Alba also won Eurovision. Right, if you think about how precision controlled those songs have to be to make it through, Like I mean, we're talking about I saw a literal songwriting contest, right, So I mean you can say, you can say Dancing Queen is kind of square. You can I will fight anyone. I mean yeah, but that's the knock against it, right, But like these people really knew how to write a song. You know, Anderson is a real perfectionist and basically controlled every this whole process with an iron fist, to the point where the group's engineer, Michael Treatao he's there. George Martin figure he's the fifth member of ABBA, which I guess would make it ab um uh. He told Mojo that basically Anderson would drive them so much that he felt like he was starving in the studio. He'd be almost fainting to the point where he would then say, Okay, we have to take a break to eat. But Frieda ended up saying that she came home that that Benny came home with a tape of the backing just the backing track, and played it for her, and she said, I thought it was so enormously beautiful. That I started to cry when the song was finally completed. It had a royal premiere, which was I guess fitting for a song Dancing Queen. Yeah. Just a few months before the US celebrated its centennial, Sweden had a much more important date, which was June, the wedding date for King Karl the sixteenth Gustaf of Sweden and Sylvia Summer Laugh. A day before the wedding, a televised gala in their honor was held at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. Aba was the only representative there of pop music. They were invited to appear and chose to perform Dancing Queen, and naturally they had outfits for the occasion. Uh. They dressed up in which they could write off, Yeah, tax right off and oil futures. I wonder if they were paid in like Volvo stock for this. They, you know, dressed up in these baroque medieval outfits, which you should google. They are truly something. So while we're talking about the highbrow pedigree of Dancing Queen, the majority of the band's promote sational videos, which another thing they were really kind of on the vanguard of music videos. This was pre MTV, but a couple of years so. But the majority of their promotional videos were directed by Swedish filmmaker Lasse Holstrom, who you may recognize that name for having picked up multiple Oscar nominations for Best Director for My Life as a Dog Cider House Rules. He also did What's eatder House Rules, Cyder House Rules. He also did Um, What's Eating, Gilbert, Grape and Chacola. But Best Picture gotta start with nominated, but got his start with Aba. He basically went oh. He directed in nineteen seventy seven documentary on them, and once the group broke up in the early eighties, he was like, I'm gonna go into movies instead with all of my training from Baba. And while we're talking about the success of Dancing Queen, let's take a look at the numbers behind it. Let's go to the charts. Dancing Queen was released in August of nineteen seventy six, and by April ninth, nineteen seventy seven, it was number one. This was I was only number one song on the Billboard Hot one hundred. Others came close, including Take a Chance on Me, which peaked at number three. There's a hugely influential song not only two people struggling to get dancers on the floor at weddings and bar Mitz retirement parties, which is how I spent my early twenties in the summer, but also to a number of very, very famous songwriters. Dancing Queen inspired the band Blondie. Chris Stein, of the band's main songwriters, said that the group's nineteen seventy nine hit Dreaming is, in his words, pretty much a cop of Dancing Queen. Elvis Costello once admitted that he viewed Dancing Queen as Mama from Heaven, and he was inspired to write the opening to his hit Oliver's Army those descending octave piano chords based on Dancing Queen, and more recently, MGMT told the podcast song Exploder that they purposely stuck to Dancing Queen's beats per minute tempo under one beats per minute for their breakthrough time to pretend ten is the sweet spot for dancing And I did you know? I'm a DJ supposedly and I did not know that. Uh, and I'm allegedly djan your weddings how they get on that alba? Something I didn't realize was that all, but were very very strict about who they allowed to sample their music. They allowed almost no one to uh. They only allowed Madonna to use a sample of their song Gimme, Gimme, Gimme a Man after midnight, after she sent the band a personal letter, and in the letter she very politely asked to use it and outlined her admiration for the band and her intentions with their music. The Fuji sampled their song the Name of the Game in their own track Rumble in the Jungle, and to this day, the Fujis and Madonna are the only two artists to gain permission to sample the music of this formidable Swedish pop juggernaut, the k l F. We're not as lucky they were. Tell us about the Kalef, I don't even know how where to be given with us. Well, they're one of you know, the they're kind of of the of New Order. They're very famous, extremely successful British you know pop groups early nineties, little later than the New Order. I guess the only song that I'd ever heard by them was Justified, an ancient which had um which had Tammy one on it. You may it's like an early nineties song maybe you've heard of that song. And so they attempted in their first album seven to sample Dancing Queen in a song called the Queen and I, and they took with them an enemy journalist and a photographer, along with copies of the LP and a gold disc of the album. They went, well, no, I guess we should say. They took the song and they sampled it without permission, and the record was released. It went gold. That did very well in the UK, and ABA understandably threatened to sue them. So to try to soothe the enraged Swedish pop geniuses, who were no longer together at this point, they traveled to Sweden with a music journalist and a photographer, determined to find a but and present them with a copy of the gold record that they'd earned partially thanks to their songwriting that they sampled Yeah and um because the kalf for notorious trolls um. They gave that gold disc. After failing to find Aba at Polar Studios in Stockholm, they gave the gold disc to a blonde prostitute they pretended was Agnatha, who was, in their words, fallen on hard times. So having not secured a Ba's permission and not wishing to be sued into oblivion, they apparently dumped all the original LPs copies into over a ferry in the North Sea, and the remainder were burned in a field before dawn, which was then photographed and used of the cover of their next album, Who Killed the Jams Kalf Notorious Firebugs. They did a performance art piece called the k Foundation Burn a Million Quid in which they literally burned a million wind in a Scottish field quit being a British slang for for pounds. Yeah, it was basically most of their money at the time, and they made a coffee table book with with still images from burning a giant pile of a million pounds. But that's not even the craziest thing that happened to them on this trip. Yes, on this trip to Sweden, they apparently, having failed to locate Alba, they set up a stereo outside of Alba's record label and just played the song The Queen and I that samples Dancing Queen at an uncomfortable volume. Purely, it seems like they're just trying to antagonize that they're not gonna I mean, this is the opposite of the Madonna prose who wrote them really polite letter. They're just trying to piss off. It's kind of like Waco, right, they were playing the blasting stuff at really high voice Metallica and like chickens being the capitated and stuff. Yeah, yeah, and then um, on the way back to England, the band hit and killed a moose and were shot at by a farmer who shot at their car Afford Galaxy, right, a Ford Galaxy police car. Apparently they had an old ex police car that was their main um, their main transport and the perfect capstone to this sequence of ignominious events. They were towed back to England. But while we're on the topic of police, did you know that the song Dancing Queen by Aaba was banned by the New York Police in two thousand one. I mean, it's one of those things that you wonder why exactly, and I guess it was. This is when the Mama Mia musical was opening, and apparently one of the members of the cast said that the police had heard and this is their quote, that the song could cause a euphoric frenzy in the crowd, which, to be fair, having seen Mama Mea several times on a broad Way it absolutely does. So they were supposed to perform the music A Dancing Queen at a concert in Times Square Free Concerts, so they had heard apparently the NYP this is the performer again, apparent the m ip D had heard about this reaction and they said, um, no, you can't, you can't do that. Is this like the town from Loos? Like Jesus, Yeah, that adds. I mean, there's definitely like a list of banned materials by the NYPD floating around out there, and apparently Dancing Queen's on it. But despite the NYPD not being a fan of dancing Queen, you know who is Queen Elizabeth, an actual dancing queen. She's actually been interviewed by the BBC and the song was played at an event at Windsor Castle and she said, I always try to dance when this song comes on because I am the Queen and I like to dance, which truly a SoundBite machine. Yes, her majesty. And the the other end of the spectrum, the sex Pistols also, I guess you could kind of say that they were a fan. They played the song over the p a while they were setting up for their reunion show in North London, and I guess to sort of remind the audience of how stale the music scene had gotten in the early seventies, mid seventies before the sex pistoles really broke through in seventy seven, they played all this you know what they thought was really cheesy seventies pop, A City Rollers and other you know, corny pop staples. And when they got to ABBA's Dancing Queen, all of the old punks gathered together and started singing in Unison. They were not gonna sniff at Dancing Queen. They loved it. It It brought them together. It's a truly incredible moment. And that they are, you know, a bunch of UK punks are hardly the hardly the only far afield fan of of Dancing Queen, um, believe it or not. Of all people, John McCain named Dancing Queen is his favorite song. And this is in two thousand and eight during his presidential campaign, Historian Walter Isaacson said like, what in God's name are you thinking? Essentially, you know a later interview, and McCain kind of laid the SmackDown. Yeah, I mean in his place, John McCain being like, by the way, I was a PW He more or less said, yeah, this is his quote. I've got to say that a lot of my taste in music stopped about the time I impacted a surface to air missile with my own airplane and never caught up again, which is a pretty stunning way to put Isaacson in his place. Mic drop right. Yeah, the late John McCain mega abbastan an early frontrunner of poptimism, and I suppose you could tell him we're going to take a quick break, but we'll be right back with more, too much information and just a moment. Who else was a big, big dancing queen fan. But let me tell you James Headfield of Metallica says it's the perfect soundtrack for family car rides. He's not wrong, He's not wrong. He's a real family man. James Headfield is and uh at some point, I like to imagine he sings along with it, and then James Headfield voice so he's like, feel the beat of the tambourine. That's the only that's that's the only singing portion of this podcast you're gonna get. But sector not just the in oil futures, we have to pay aba in uh my Heartstock not not the only member of the nineties aggressive music community who went to bat for AUBA. Also Kurt Cobain. He frequently cited a BA as one of his favorite groups. He curated a lot of acts for the the Redding Festival where Nirvana famous they performed. And uh, he was apparently really really really into the ABBA cover band that had been booked called and this is incredible Born Again And he would just be standing on the side of the stage and I guess he like looked up at like photographers were there, like taking pictures of him watching this ABBA cover band, and he was like gesturing the band saying, look, what do you think? So Kurt Cobain made everything. Perhaps James head Field in Kurt Cobain were actually behind the one billion dollar offer that completely failed to get the band back together again. That is right, Abba, we should mention broke up in After the two couples that A consisted of split up, there were numerous attempts to reunite the band, including huge, ridiculously huge offers that have been unseen since they tried to get the Beatles back together in the mid seventies, and one such offer was valued at a billion dollars, and it came from an unnamed American British consortium that wanted to secure, to be fair hundreds of new Abba concerts, and uh Abbas said no because they wanted like something like two hundred and fifty shows. And they just thought, I mean at this point, this was I think in the late nineties, and they were in their fifties, and they said, no, we we we we we we we sleep on beds of money. We don't need this, I mean part of it. Yeah, I guess that is the counter argument. I would say, what is one billion divided by two hundred fifty split four ways? Still a lot of most awful lot of time. Yes, I mean we play, We're Alex, You and I are in a band together. We play at bowling alleys. For it was that much, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna do an audit of I'll pay you in stock or or drink tickets. Yeah. Well, Alba, of course did reunite in one, presumably for slightly less than a billion dollars, although knowing their canny financial team, I can't be sure of that. But there were several times prior to this where they almost almost reunited, and one of these was in the nineties for Lion King, The Lion King, pardon me, the Lion King. You know, in the multiverse theory, there is a world in which the Lion King was scored by Abba Tim Rice, who ended up doing that obviously with Elton. John had already worked with Anderson and Uveaez in musical called Chess, but the rest of The Lion King's production team didn't go for it for whatever reason. Um and it ultimately didn't matter because Abba turned it down. We have enough money, thank you. Now. There have been many who sort of cited the sort of the darkness underneath the Alba lyrics, the sort of the melancholy of Dancing Queen is that the singer is not the dancing queen. The singer is somebody watching the dancing queen, somebody younger than them, who's having their moment in the sun, and the singer is remembering what it was like to be that that woman, to see that girl watch that scene being the dancing queen, so that there is kind of a darkness to it. And there is some darkness to the Abbas story. And one of the sort of the most puzzling and interesting dark elements of the Alba story is that Agnita apparently dated her stalker after after divorcing Bjorn, she married again in This marriage ended in divorce in and she started this relationship with her stalker. He was I believe a Dutch forklire driver who had been obsessed with her since his childhood and sort of unsurprisingly, this relationship ended a few years later in although he continued to obsessively stalk Agnetha and this led to a restranding order and he is now barred from entering the country of Sweden. But there was a happy flip side to that. The other female member of ABBA has a much happier ending. Yeah. Annie free Lynstad had really just one hell of a life. She initially thought that her father had been killed in the war and World War two World War two, yeah uh. Was basically only found out that he was still alive when she was thirty. She was born, her mother was Nordic, her father was a German soldier, and so she was basically always told that he had died, and when her mother died at twenty one, Linkstad was brought up by her grandmother in Sweden, and so she essentially believed that she was an orphan. Uh. And then in nineteen seventy seven, this German teen magazine called Bravo, basically pulling like Woodward Bernstein style research, published a complete biography of her, including the names of her mother and father. And this is obviously pre internet, so you know, nobody that this kind of stuff could kind of fly into the radar. But her half brother Peter Hasse eventually saw this and asked his father if he'd ever been stationed in Norway, Norway during the war. Basically all of this ends up leading to lynch dad meeting her half brother for the first time, discovering her entire background. I mean, just imagine having your world rocked by like basically the German equivalent of like Tiger Beat, Like that was where disappeared. I mean, I feel like that that's something that we really we need to emphasize, like that was how she found out in the in the in the in the bio, the forthcoming never I mean, god, I hope it's forthcoming biopic of I hope David Fincher does it, and I hope it's like a zodiac style montage of this German magazine, like tirelessly combing through beautiful of Mine style like strings on the chalkboard. But eventually Annie Freed divorces Benny and she decides to leave Sweden and she lives in London first, and eventually she relocates to Switzerland to live with her new boyfriend, who is an actual prince named Heinrich Ruzzo of Ruse of Ruce. His ancestors were from the former sovereign House of Russ in Germany, who naturally lost power after the First World War but retained the royal titles. So Prince Heinrich and Annie Freed married and she actually became She earned a full title of Princess Annie Fried Sini of Russ, Countess of Plowing, which is just just shy of being an actual dancing queen. Well, I think that is just about all there is to say about dancing queen. Would't you say I truly feel the beat of the timber? Do you? I hope you do? Oh yeah, yeah, Well that was everything you didn't know about dancing queen by Abba, thanks so much for joining us here on too much information. You hope you enjoyed yourself. We'll see you next time. We'll see you too much Information was a production of I Heart Radio. The show's executive producers are Noel Brown and Jordan run Talk. The supervising producer is Mike John's. The show was researched, written, and hosted by Jordan run Talk and Alex Heigel, with original music by Seth Applebaum and the Ghost Punk Orchestra. If you like what you heard, please subscribe and leave us a review. 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