Domino was a short-lived but successful weekly music series on channel A2, which started on 7 March 1974 and finished on 27 June1974 and consisted of only 14 episodes. It featured French and international stars and was aired on Thursday evenings, in an approximately one-hour programme presented by Guy Lux and Sophie Darel.

Episode 6 - ABBA performed Waterloo to playback (although listen carefully and you can hear live vocals over the backing track). French singing star Sacha Distel was also a guest on the programme.

Guy Lux introduces their performance as "exclusive, for the first time on French TV, the Swedish group ABBA who won Eurovision a few days ago with Waterloo."

ABBA took part in the finale standing together behind the stars of the show including Sacha Distel.

A picture from rehearsals was used on the cover of the 1974 single release of Ring Ring/King Kong Song from Belgium.  (You can tell it's from the dress rehearsal because Björn is wearing black trousers and not the silver boots he wore for the actual broadcast).

Running order of performers:

1. Sacha Distel - La vieille dame
2. Delta Rythmn Boys - Mack the Knife
3. Claude Luter - Dans les rues d'antibes
4. Andrew Sisters - Boogie Woogie
5. Love Machine - In the Mood
6. Michel Legrand - Petite musique d'amour
7. ABBA - Waterloo
8. Pierre Groscolas - Lady lay
9. Stone Charden - Et maintenant si on dansait
10. Sheila - Mélancolie
11. Sheila - Toi, moi, la musique et l'amour (featuring Sacha Distel)
12. Sheila - Le couple
13. Sheila - Allume ta télé
14. Finale (all performers)

Click here for newspaper TV listing from Nouveliste - 18 April 1974, p5

The programme was repeated on Melody TV, France in October 2005.

Lyrics available on the Official ABBA site

Archive data from French TVs’ public site:
DOMINO : EMISSION DU 18 AVRIL 1974
Emission : Domino
Collection : RTF / ORTF
N° de notice : CPF86606107
Date de 1re diffusion : jeudi 18/04/1974
Durée : 01:00:00

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