LIST 157 - 22/05/15 (Eurovision Song Contest special)

Hello again,

Non-lovers of Eurovision might want to give this week's List a miss... 

Here we have 25 songs that represent a personal selection of favourites - not necessarily all the "best" songs, whatever that means, and certainly not all the most successful - from everyone's favourite annual brew of high camp, fallable phone links and questionable voting.  Please enjoy.

Actually, it behoves me to point out that only 23 of the songs are from the Contest itself - two more got to their respective nation's equivalents of A Song For Europe, but no further.  For a bit of fun, see if you can identify which.

There's very little from pre-1990 Contests in this particular List, but I'm sure I can put that right twelve months from now.  Probably my favourite Eurovision song of the lot is one of the oldest here, however - this is indeed the same Belgian deadpan synth-prodders Telex that had had a UK chart hit with a deliberately funereal cover of Rock Around The Clock a year or two previously.

J xx

 

GUILDO HORN – Guildo hat euch lieb (1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPZX7EZIFD0

AFRO-DITE – Never Let It Go (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbWBSpf-7Eo

VANILLA NINJA – Cool Vibes (2005)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDkqtAx31H4

BRAINSTORM – My Star (2000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1y9xhmMSDk

PERTTI KURIKAN NIMIPÄIVÄT- Aina mun pitää (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR6BixXmo08

PAS DE DEUX – Rendez-vous (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRfve3wHYUY

YULIA SAVICHEVA – Believe Me (2004)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfUShaG1MrI

SANDIE SHAW – Puppet on a String (1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhLlXvkm65Y

LONDONBEAT – I’m Just Your Puppet on a String! (1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMa7Zr1wQ98

LT UNITED – We are the Winners (2006)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvDF2Q4WiGk

INES – Once in a Lifetime (2000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVVMuvsPSYI

ELINA BORN & STIG RÄSTA – Goodbye to Yesterday (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSWbx3CvVUk

TELEX – Eurovision (1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6USa0zUMmqI

ALF POIER – Weil der Mensch zählt (2003)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZJt6Gv4XPk

ROSA – Europe’s Living a Celebation (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xX3dNwHl50

FINN KALVIK - Aldri i livet (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dxudrQ8jfw

LINDA WAGENMAKERS – No Goodbyes (2000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuDf5GBnGpA

TEXAS LIGHTNING – No No Never (2006)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvTuDL8dwiI

ANNA MARIA JOPEK – Ale jestem (1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piD3PP1QDBQ

WINNY PUHH - Meiecundimees üks Korsakov läks eile Lätti (2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dllo85ZSUk

AIVARAS – Happy You (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V40qxtQEmg

MÅNS ZELMERLÖW – Heroes (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-msutN_OkU4

CHARMED – My Heart Goes Boom (2000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNP7VPSBICc

STEFAN RAAB – Wadde hadded dude da? (2000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hITG8fMzxUo

EMMA – Give a Little Love Back to the World (1990)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRDdlNwoQkg