International Year of the Child own concerns. This was used to explain the importance of how every child is entitled to a home. Sound effects were created with the voices of "Les Mimes Electriques". International Year of the Child UNESCO proclaimed 1979 as the International Year of the Child. The proclamation was signed on January 1, 1979 by United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim. A follow-up to the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the proclamation was intended to draw attention to problems that affected children throughout the world, including malnutrition and lack of access to education. Many of these efforts resulted in
SOS (ABBA song) by director Lasse Hallström for the band. Much of the video is filmed from an overhead camera, as if from a tower or lighthouse, with the bandmates' faces sometimes distorted, as though shot through a prism. During the band's first visit to the United States, ABBA performed "SOS" on the long-running television program "American Bandstand" on 15 November 1975. ABBA performs the song live in the concert film "", Hallström's first English-language feature film, filmed during the band's tour of Australia in 1977. ABBA performed the song on its 1979 tour of Europe and North America. While the track does