Does Your Mother Know

"Does Your Mother Know"
Single by ABBA
from the album Voulez-Vous
B-side"Kisses of Fire"
Released27 April 1979
RecordedFebruary–March 1979
StudioPolar, Stockholm, Sweden
Genre
Length3:15
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Benny Andersson
  • Björn Ulvaeus
ABBA singles chronology
"Chiquitita"
(1979)
"Does Your Mother Know"
(1979)
"Voulez-Vous"
(1979)
Music video
"Does Your Mother Know" on YouTube

"Does Your Mother Know" is a song by the Swedish recording group ABBA, recorded for their sixth studio album Voulez-Vous (1979). It was taken as the second single from the record on 27 April 1979 via Polar Music; in North America, the song was released as the lead single in place of "Chiquitita". "Does Your Mother Know" is notable as the only major ABBA single and one of the group's few songs overall to not feature lead vocals by either Agnetha Fältskog or Anni-Frid Lyngstad, with Björn Ulvaeus performs the lead vocals instead. Fältskog and Lyngstad providing backing vocals. The song's B-side was "Kisses of Fire". For the writing, Ulvaeus was inspired by a young fan he met, and who which he turned away from due to her age.

A success for the group, "Does Your Mother Know" reached number one on the music charts in Belgium, and reached the top ten in eight other countries. Its North American chart performance was moderate, reaching numbers 12 and 19 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles and US Billboard Hot 100 charts. Ulvaeus later said that the track would have been a bigger hit if Fältskog or Lyngstad sang the lead vocals instead. In 2019, the single was re-released as a vinyl picture disc.