Eurovision Song Contest

[madjock]

1982 Germany | Nicole - Ein Bisschen Frieden - The only ever German winner!

[madjock]

I googled it before Mince starts on me!

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I say, yes let them all sing, but then, hand it over to the USA and Australia to vote

The USA? You'd trust them with such a difficult task?

The USA would have dropped it years ago. Unlike Britain, they would not have let it descend into the utter drivel it has become.

Er...'scuse me? Is this the same USA that brought us Jerry Springer and Everybody Loves Raymond?

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I remember a barefooted Sandie Shaw winning it for the UK in 1967, with Puppet On A String. Classic song!

Sadly, I don't think we had a telly in 1966, and I missed the magnificent Kenneth McKellar, singing A Man Without Love...which was apparently prophetic, since only two countries bothered to vote for him. Philistines!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzT4g9ahLvU

[The Peepmaster]

I'm going on holiday to The Philistines next month...

[Vulture]

I say, yes let them all sing, but then, hand it over to the USA and Australia to vote

The USA? You'd trust them with such a difficult task?

The USA would have dropped it years ago. Unlike Britain, they would not have let it descend into the utter drivel it has become.

Thanks, Tarquin. I rest my case!

Er...'scuse me? Is this the same USA that brought us Jerry Springer and Everybody Loves Raymond?

[Tom]

So does anyone have their all-time favourite Eurovision song? One song out of all the thousands that have gone before? And not all are bad.

My favourite one is "Fra Mols Til Skagen", sung by Aud Wilken for Denmark in 1995. Sadly she didn't win.

Coming in a very close second (or joint third) is the UK's "Love Shine a Light" by Katrina and the Waves in 1997 (which we won with!), or France's Amina in 1991 with "Le Dernier Qui A Parl?", sadly, she didn't win either.

Get your thinking caps on, take a trip down memory lane, and see if we can remember your favourite...

[Roger Kettle]

Oh, Lord. How about Abba? Whatever you think of them, they wrote probably the best pop songs of their generation.

[Tom]

Yes, Abba are the Eurovision's biggest success, I'd say.

And although not a song, Riverdance isn't doing too bad for itself either.

[Vulture]

Yes, Abba are the Eurovision's biggest success, I'd say.

And although not a song, Riverdance isn't doing too bad for itself either.

Was Riverdance in the Eurovision?

[madjock]

Don't think so but, Abba won it in 1974 with Waterloo (only know this as its the year I was born)

[Tom]

Was Riverdance in the Eurovision?

It was indeed! It was the interval act in the 1994 Eurovision. It was developed into a show of its own after that.

[The Peepmaster]

Yes, Abba are the Eurovision's biggest success, I'd say.

And although not a song, Riverdance isn't doing too bad for itself either.

When I hear River-dunce, I can't help thinking of Mince in a dinghy on the Thames.

[Vulture]

Yes, Abba are the Eurovision's biggest success, I'd say.

And although not a song, Riverdance isn't doing too bad for itself either.

When I hear River-dunce, I can't help thinking of Mince in a dinghy on the Thames.

Does the dinghy have a slow puncture?

[Malc]

Abba and Riverdance are the best things to come out of Eurovision, no doubt about it, and I use the term "come out of" advisedly as they weren't the massive hits they became later.

Cliff Richard, Sandie Shaw and didn't Lulu have a go too? She did quite well, Joint winner (along with about six other nations).

Volare is the most widely recorded Eurovision song, it came third, but I don't know the year. I heard about this on a TV documentary a few years ago.

Maybe we should post amazing Eurovision trivia (but it must be TRUE).






Go on then.....