Posted April 7, 20241 yr So here's your chance to maybe see this day when Abba won for the first time you younger ones. Luxemburg won again in 1973 but as they'd also hosted it then they couldn't afford to host it again. Israel and the Uk offered and we got it. Introduced by Katie Boyle from The Dome in Brighton. Olivia NJ performed our entry. Two more big UK hits from it were Go, by Gigliola Cinquetti, the runner-up and I See A Star by Mouth and McNeal. Enjoy Euro fans,
April 7, 20241 yr Jiust starting to watch tonight's BBC4 repeat. I wonder who's going to win :unsure:
April 7, 20241 yr Interesting to see that the show started at 9:30 which would have been 10:30 in most of Europe. Some very 1970s Eurovision songs so far (including ON-J for the UK) with Spain and Greece both entering songs that couldn't have come from anywhere else. David Vine's comments about the Yugoslav entry were decidedly odd. He speculated whether they would sing in English or Yugoslavian. There has never been a Yugoslavian language. I assume they were singing in Serbo-Croat as it definitely wasn't English.
April 7, 20241 yr I'd forgotten that Mouth & McNeal's I See A Star was also a Eurovision song. I remember it being a hit, but had forgotten it's Brighton links.
April 7, 20241 yr It's been said many times that the UK gave Abba no points. However, it has to be remembered that each country could only vote for five other countries. The UK was by no means alone in giving nothing to Abba.
April 8, 20241 yr unusual contest when watching in order (as I watched all of the 50s through 70s contests a few years ago), goes straight from the bizarre lot in 1971-73 to this even more unusual scoring system. Also doing it that way really helps emphasise how different ABBA were in terms of what was normal in ESC at the time (chanson ballads mainly) wombles as an interval act was quite charming I seem to remember
April 8, 20241 yr unusual contest when watching in order (as I watched all of the 50s through 70s contests a few years ago), goes straight from the bizarre lot in 1971-73 to this even more unusual scoring system. Also doing it that way really helps emphasise how different ABBA were in terms of what was normal in ESC at the time (chanson ballads mainly) wombles as an interval act was quite charming I seem to remember The scoring system was rather weird. It meant Abba's winning score was very modest.
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