Love me or leave me, make your choice, but believe me, I love you, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do.
I love songs with titles that have words that repeat like this Abba song. In fact they have several songs with repeat titles.
Last week I compiled a one hour radio show just with songs with repeat words in the title and the show started off with Joe Dolan’s It’ you, its you, its you and closed off with this Abba song.
Now I want to hear which EUROVISION song you love with a repeat title. Mine favourite is probably VIDEO VIDEO by Brixx from Denmark (1982) and this song ended second after Ein bischien frieden for me that year.
Chiquitita, tell me the truth, I’m a shoulder you can cry on
Well, CHIQUITIA is a real ABBA classic, both in English and Spanish.
Now who in EUROVISION (artist – male or female) will you want to come and cry on your shoulder, especially after a shock result at Eurovision. I think Kate Ryan will be in many people’s minds but there are others. I still think 2010 is a great example for me, Sieneke not making the final and Didrik Solli doing so badly in front of his home crowd. Both can come and cry on my shoulder. I also want to share another experience from 2010. Morten and me and two other OGAE members had the honour to be in the green room (during that year the green room was not visible to the public). The 4 of us sat there surrounded by four countries – LATVIA, MALTA, FINLAND and SLOVAKIA and believe it or not, none of these 4 made it to the final – what a shock and sadness and seeing the head of delegation of Malta drying Thea Garrett’s tears with the huge Maltese flag is one of those moments burned into my mind forever.
So difficult to find a quote here because there is so much but least settle for this
I’m sure I had my dinner watching something on TV, there’s not, I think, a single episode of Dallas that I didn’t see.
Now the question is, is there a SINGLE EDITION of EUROVISION you have not seen? And why?
For me from 1980 when I saw the first on video cassette from a penfriend, there is not a single edition of Eurovision I had not seen – however prior to 1980, I have not seen a single episode.
This song nearly got banned in South Africa from radio play as according to some this was inviting sex with minors. It did get airplay on some stations but it became one of ABBA’s least success songs in South Africa.
Now the question is which EUROVISION ARTIST (male or female) you would like to chat to flirt a little maybe and why.
For me it is MALE – DIMITRY of LITESOUND, FEMALE – SIENEKE
Tonight the Super trouper, lights are gonna find me, shining like the sun
This line taught me a new English word at the time, SUPER TROUPER, I had no idea what it was and had to look it up.
Now today is the correct time for this song as today at the F N B station near me where the Soccer world cup 2010 main ceremony took place, will be SUPER SKOUSPEL with several OGAE ROW artists plus also SUSAN BOYLE from the UK. The newspapers reported she will sing one song in Afrikaans, she has been practicing it – but we have no clue as yet what it will be. Many people I know are going – some even with VIP tickets. As it is an outdoor venue, we are glad the weather is so good.
Now the question with this is, which ARTIST from EUROVISION would you like to sing in a language he or she has never sung, so if say you pick Mans and say I would like to hear him sing in Croatian and why.
I’m your music, I’m your song, play me time and time again.
It is no secret that ANDANTE ANDANTE is my favourite ABBA song. It is quite interesting that the song was not as big a hit for ABBA in other countries but in South Africa is is regarded as one of the classics and many local singers have covered it.
The question here is which song (Eurovision or other) is one of those songs you want to PLAY TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
For me it is BIRDS OF PARADISE by Swiss group PETER SUE & MARC. I love most of their songs but this song is my number 1 song of all time (even although it dates back to 1982) and there is not a week that I do not play it at least once.
After a few days break, we are back with the next ABBA song, DANCING QUEEN
“You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen”
With such a young age, the question is which EURO artist (female) do you regard as one of the best young (under 21) artists to have appeared on the Eurovision stage over the 60 years.
We start off the 60 day competition around ABBA since we will be in STOCKHOLM for Eurovision 2016.
I have selected 24 ABBA songs and the competition over 60 days will involve this 24 songs. Depending on how busy I am, every 2 or 3 days a new song will become available. The 24 songs have been picked at random and TAKE A CHANCE ON ME came up first so that is therefore the name of the competition.
There are 6 times 60 points at stake, so 360 in total, dividing that through 24 songs, is 15 points per song. But some will carry more points to a maximum of 30 and others less, but never less than 10 points. So the 360 points have been split between the 24 songs, and as TAKE A CHANCE ON ME starts the competition, it gets 30 points.
The competition will work as follows:
First of all, it is a joint effort between the WEBSITE and the FACEBOOK. The new song will be announced on the website but people can publish their response either on the website or the facebook under that song title.
I will take a sentence from the song lyrics and present that and you have to write a line or two about what memory this ABBA song brings – maybe your first kiss or a special birthday or whatever. The winner works as follows – if just one person responds, he or she gets the 30 points – if 2 respond, they each get 15 points, if three respond, then 10 points each. If more than 3, then I pick the best 3 in my opinion and each get 10 points.
If someone does not want his or her 10 points, then such a person can trade it in for half an euro discount on 2016 membership (or those that have paid already, then it is banked towards 2017 membership).
This gives everybody a chance – those that want points towards the ticket list for 2016 and those who for whatever reason cannot go and so want to earn “discount” towards their membership.
Winners will be announced one day after the next song is presented. So it gives people a couple of days to send their memory of a particular song.
With the 2015 Melodifestivalen starting this weekend, I have been listening to music by ONE MORE TIME, one of my favourite groups from Sweden. Pity they never had the same success as ABBA for example. Here is an vinyl single by them which they signed for me during EUROVISION 1996 in Oslo.
