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They're both nice songs, but I think "Congratulations" was the better choice. It's simple and instantly hummable.

A song that I just discovered last year is the Swiss entry from 1972, "C'est la chanson de mon amour" with Véronique Müller. It finished in 8th place, but I love this song and with a better singer (Véronique's voice is rather weak and wobbly) I think it could have done better.

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Just for that I'll post some songs from the Swedish contest through the years....just for you.

Lena Philipsson - "Om igen", 1988, 2nd place

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Cayenne - "Stanna hos mig", 1994, 3rd place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccclXbCmG6g

Östen Warnerbring - "Som en dröm", 1967, 1st place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xYaRt31cdo

Lotta Engberg - "Juliette och Jonathan", 1996, 3rd place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqeznB7GDiU

Karin & Anders Glenmark - "Kall som is", 1984, 4th place

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

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Back in the 60s and 70s it was very common for ESC songs to be translated into Swedish and recorded by Swedish artists. Here are a few examples of how it sounded.

Agnetha Fältskog - "Sov gott min lilla vän" (original: Frida Boccara - "Un jour, un enfant", represented France 1969)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nGQOJoNaPA

Tina och Marina - "Tina och Marina" (original: Conny Froboess - "Zwei kleine Italiener", represented West Germany 1962)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FThnC71zzK8

Vikingarna - "Halleluja" (original: Gali Atari & Milk and Honey - "Halleluja", represented Israel 1979)

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Britt Bergström - "Blå, blå är kärleken" (original: Vicky Leandros - "L'amour est bleu", represented Luxembourg 1967)

Inger Öst - "Rör vid mig" (original: Mocedades - "Eres tu", represented Spain 1973)

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Agnetha's "Som Jag Ar" has always been one of my favorites. I have to say, I like many of Agnetha's Swedish lanuguage solo recordings better than many Abba songs. Her greater comfort singing in her native tongue really comes through, and gives a better end result. I don't know how much the lyrics are changed, but I'm amazed how nicely these songs translate into Swedish without sounding awkward. I've heard many an English song translated into German that sounds awkward as hell. So much so, that I find many German pop songs hard to listen to unless they were originally written in German. Inger Ost has a lovely voice, and a nice version of "Eres Tu". I still haven't found any info on the Preview video version of "Eres Tu", I guess I must be resigned to the fact it must not have been released at all... that the version on the preview video is either an unreleased version, or a lip synch to the audio of the national finals. sad.png

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That has got to be one of the campiest ones of all time, and I love it to death! Bucks Fizz... what a load of drama THAT group is. The most fool hardy move in music history was to hire David Van Day to be in the group. What a prick he is. Poor Mike, he finally washed his hand of the whole thing, and now he just travels around to play all the gay pride festivals.

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Thanks for mentioned that, Daytime fan! I hadn't check in with what they were doing the last couple years, so I find out Mike got back togehter with Jay and Cheryl again, that's so great! Apparently the missing member, Bobby, has the rights to the name, and he has his OWN group, so the THREE original members have to call themselves "Original Bucks Fizz", while the group with only one member gets the actual name. How tacky is that?

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Only seven countries (France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland and West Germany) participated in the first contest in 1956. But during the years more and more countries joined, and here are some debut performances through the years.

Monaco 1959 (Jacques Pills - "Mon ami Pierrot")

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Greece 1974 (Marinella - "Krassi thalassa ke to agouri mou")

Iceland 1986 (ICY -"Gleidibankinn"

Estonia 1994 (Silvi Vrait - "Nagu merelaine")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjdcGg0yMJY

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