"Summer Night City" is a song recorded by the Swedish pop group ABBA, written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus as a tribute to their hometown of Stockholm.

[3] A reluctant ABBA decided to release "Summer Night City" as a single in September despite their disappointment with the track in its current form.

The group still performed the song live on their 1979 world tour, though with the original introduction that had been removed from the studio recording.

[2] The single's B-side was a medley of the American traditional songs "Pick a Bale of Cotton", "On Top of Old Smokey", and "Midnight Special", which the group had recorded in May 1975.

The "Medley" mystery was allegedly solved when the UK single master tapes were returned by Epic Records to Polar Music in Sweden in the early 2000s.

As explained by ABBA historian Carl Magnus Palm: When The Complete Studio Recordings was put together, I and the mastering engineer tried to determine whether it actually was two different mixes.

[4]Despite the group's negative views of the song, "Summer Night City" was another sizeable hit for ABBA, albeit not one of their biggest.

1 in their home country for 43 years until September 2021 when ABBA's comeback single "Don't Shut Me Down" reached the top spot.