Ein Kessel Buntes was a series on DDR (East Germany) which ran from 29 January 1972 to 19 December 1992, and was 6 times a year on Saturday evenings and always had a huge budget to show the biggest national and international stars. 

The series contains 118 Episodes. A repeat of these performances was shown on Das Blaue Fenster.

Episode 15, guests on the programme (in order):

1. ABBA - Waterloo
2. Herricht & Preil (comedy sketch)
3. Jiří Korn (Czech) - 2 songs
4. Russian folk dance
5. Ireen Sheer (UK) - Goodbye Mama and Bye Bye I Love You
6. Omara Portuondo and Martin Rojas (Cuba) - 2 songs
7. Comedy sketch
8. Opera scene - excerpt of Offenbach: Orpheus in der Unterwelt
9. Andreas Holm - Morgendrot, Abendrot
10. Schnellers' chimpanzees (Hungary) a circus act
11. Das Fernsehbalett (a ballet scene)
12. Koncz Zsuzsa (Hungary) - He, mama and The night they drove old Dixie down
13. ABBA - Honey Honey, So Long and Waterloo (in German - part only)
14. Finale

The performance of So Long was broadcast on 1 January 1978 in USSR on the First Channel during a New Year's programme.

Honey Honey has been released on the CD/DVD ABBA - Waterloo Deluxe Edition on 6 April 2014. (There is a little confusion about the filming and broadcast dates.  The DVD booklet states that Honey Honey was filmed on 7 November and broadcast on 23 November.  Görel's diaires state filming was on 7 November 1974 which obviously conflicts with the broadcast date (as per TV listings) of 2 November 1974 unless ABBA were time travellers!).


Click here for a TV listing from Neues Deutschland - 2 November 1974, p.8

Click here for a TV listing and article from Berliner Zeitung - 2 November 1974, p.6 (however it does not mentioned ABBA) 

1. Benny during Waterloo - he's not used to not having anything to do with his hands (as he's usually playing the piano or guitar) and he looks so uncomfortable standing there with just a microphone. He keeps looking to Frida for reassurance.
2. After Waterloo ABBA hold up the words, "Wir kommen gleich wieder", which means "We'll come back soon".

Lyrics available on the Official ABBA site: Waterloo, Honey Honey, So Long, Waterloo (German)

Thanks to Dean Morrison, Philippe Dupont, Jun Seo, Leonardo Anacleto , Petr Mlejnek, Ronnie, Lendy, Jan Bach, Mandy Johanson, Yuri, Jozsef and Guido
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