Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson
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Lena could be worse, remember this?
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The UK were great in 1972
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Ha Ha, I actually liked Nicole and that song
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^^
I had to look it up 1997, Katrina and the Waves, Love shine a light. I don't recall it at all.
I had to look it up 1997, Katrina and the Waves, Love shine a light. I don't recall it at all.
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The first UK entry I remember was this one, in 1959:
Ah, they don't make 'em like that any more - do they?
EDIT: the Katrina & THe Waves record was a big hit here - unsurprisingly - as I recall.
EDIT AGAIN: I also recall the UK entries by The Allisons (1961 - 'Are You Sure'), Cliff Richard (late 60s - 'Congratulations'), Sandy Shaw (mid-60s - 'Puppet On A String'), Lulu (sometime in the 60s - 'Boom Bang A Bang' ). Others seem mercifully to have escaped my recall...
Ah, they don't make 'em like that any more - do they?
EDIT: the Katrina & THe Waves record was a big hit here - unsurprisingly - as I recall.
EDIT AGAIN: I also recall the UK entries by The Allisons (1961 - 'Are You Sure'), Cliff Richard (late 60s - 'Congratulations'), Sandy Shaw (mid-60s - 'Puppet On A String'), Lulu (sometime in the 60s - 'Boom Bang A Bang' ). Others seem mercifully to have escaped my recall...
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Don't quote me on this, but ... I believe that, in 1959, it was accepted wisdom at the BBC that, to be accepted as European, you had to sound somewhat Tyrolean. To sound French was, well, rather too French-sounding, if you get my drift. (and German or Italian were, obviously, beyond the pale...)pinhedz wrote:It's doesn't sound English, isn't it more Tyrolean?Strawberry Jam wrote:No, they don't. It's sooo cuuute.felix wrote:Ah, they don't make 'em like that any more - do they?
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Eurovision: The Good, the Bad and the downright Bizarre:
http://music.aol.co.uk/2011/05/13/eurovision-good-bad-bizarre/
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I watched ABBA win with Waterloo in our living room in Killiney
I think our Irish contributions apart from the unflappable Terry Wogan was Dana hehehe....All Kinds of Everything..(twice I think) and some loser called Johnny Logan.....
http://www.keithm.utvinternet.ie/Winners.htm
I think our Irish contributions apart from the unflappable Terry Wogan was Dana hehehe....All Kinds of Everything..(twice I think) and some loser called Johnny Logan.....
http://www.keithm.utvinternet.ie/Winners.htm
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I quite liked Johnny Logan as well, he won twice for Ireland.
He was actually born in Australia.
He was actually born in Australia.
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In 1968 Serrat was to sing La la la
but he wanted to sing it in Catalan and they didn't let him
so finally Massiel sang it in Spanish
This is probably the most known Spanish song in Eurovision...
but he wanted to sing it in Catalan and they didn't let him
so finally Massiel sang it in Spanish
This is probably the most known Spanish song in Eurovision...
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hahahaha no, that part sounds the same
Is there la la la in German? (Not the song, I mean just the la la la)
Is there la la la in German? (Not the song, I mean just the la la la)
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I knew you were kidding, I laught because I found your joke to be funny... but anyway I answered your question...
I see, they chose to sing la la la because it is in an international language and everybody would understand the depth of its meaning
I see, they chose to sing la la la because it is in an international language and everybody would understand the depth of its meaning
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Was it on purpose? I mean, was it deliberately uncool and awful (and funny from a distant time)?Strawberry Jam wrote:
EVERY German alive at the time remembers "Dschingis Khan". It was SO uncool, SO awful, it had everything required to make a self-respecting teenager loathe and detest his country. Nowadays I think it's rather funny.
A few years ago Spain presented a song in the contest that was deliberately ridiculous? I had a good laugh thinking that song was the chosen one
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Madre mía... or should I say OMG? What is that first song? The second one is not so awful... it is mainly creepy
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Harry Venning.
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Modern Toss. The Guardian.
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Sweden's entry Loreen performs Euphoria, which won this year's competition convincingly. 'Oh, it's good, isn't it? It sounds like something that you'd hear on the radio. And that's something that has never ever been said about any Eurovision song in history'Photograph: David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters
Hmmm....
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pinhedz wrote:Who came in 2nd?
I don't know, but I rather hope it was the Lithuanian entry:
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