The American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA - founded in 1939) is an American entertainment union representing performers in variety entertainment, including circuses, Las Vegas showrooms and cabarets, comedy showcases, dance revues, magic shows, theme park shows, and arena and auditorium extravaganzas. Its offices are in New York and Los Angeles and it awards the Georgie Award (after George M. Cohan, an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer) for variety performer of the year.

ABBA received the Georgie Award from the American Guild of Variety Artists as The Best Vocal Group of the Year 1980.

ABBA were interviewed live by satellite following their award. The show-host was Tony Orlando (who sang Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree with the group Dawn).  A clip of On and On and On from Show Express was shown.

The award was actually collected by Stig Anderson and John Spalding who were in New York at the time.

A weather report about a forthcoming approaching storm across the bottom of the broadcast screen indicated the storm would be there, "tonight and Monday" which indicates the broadcast took place on a Sunday.

Tony Orlando: ".........Here from across the Atlantic is ABBA"

On and On and On was played from Show Express.

TO: here they are accepting their "Georgie"
From Polar:
Benny: "Hello Michael (Note: The host's name was Tony!) and hello everybody watching this show. I'm Benny".
Frida: "I'm Frida".
Agnetha: "I'm Agnetha".
Bjorn: "And I'm Bjorn. We're very sorry that we can't be with you tonight but I think you'll understand it's a long way between Stockholm and Los Angeles and unfortunately we happen to be right in the middle of recording out new album. But anyway I wanna tell you that it's truly a fantastic feeling being here in Stockholm recording this message for you, knowing that we've been given such a magnificent award from you. And I've had a look into the list of who the other award winning people are and it's a great honour for us to be a member of that gang. Thank you very much and I do hope that nest year we'll be able to come in person to collect next year's award"
TO: "ABBA is back in Sweden, home to some of the most beautiful girls in the world, so I intend to go to Sweden and deliver this one in person".

Some information from ABBA Magazine No.38. Thanks to Mark Walton, Pepe Milton, Philip Muytjens, Sam Shervz and Jozsef.
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