Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our listeners!

In this episode, we chat about host city of London, the host of 1977, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1977, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1977 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

Boom Boom Boomerang – Schmetterlinge (Austria)

De mallemolen – Heddy Lester (Netherlands)

Lapponia – Monica Aspelund (Finland)

Telegram – Silver Convention (Germany)

A Million in One, Two, Three – Dream Express (Belgium)

Swiss Lady – Pepe Lienhard Band (Switzerland)

Mathema solfege – Pascalis, Marianna, Robert and Bessy (Greece)

It’s Nice to Be in Love Again – The Swarbriggs Plus Two (Ireland)

Rock Bottom – Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran (United Kingdom)

L’Oiseau et l’Enfant – Marie Myriam (France)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our first year for Season Six: Eurovision in the 1960s

In episode 101, we’re off to Luxembourg City for Eurovision 1962!

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Stewart Morris talkback BBC 1977 https://youtu.be/XTgCLfYdRo4?si=pgZ0UUwxxAnM3jKe

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In this episode, we chat about host city of The Hague, the hosts of 1976, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1976, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1976 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

Sing, Sang, Song – Les Humphries Singers (Germany)

Pump Pump – Fredi and The Friends (Finland)

When – Red Hurley (Ireland)

The Party’s Over – Sandra Reemer (Netherlands)

Judy et Cie – Pierre Rapsat (Belgium)

My Little Word – Waterloo and Robinson (Austria)

Djambo Djambo – Peter, Sue and Marc (Switzerland)

Toi, la musique et moi – Mary Christy (Monaco)

Un, deux, trois – Catherine Ferry (France)

Save Your Kisses For Me – Brotherhood of Man (United Kingdom)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our last year for Season Five:

In episode 100, we’re off to London for Eurovision 1977!

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Song Snippets: “Save Your Kisses For Me” by Margo Smith, “Já půjdu tam a ty tam” by Helena Vondráčková and Jíři Korn, “Küsse von dir” by Rex Gildo, and “Mimo opyat” by Philipp Kirkorov used only for comparsions and all their rights are reserved. Same goes for Sponge Bob.

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In this episode, we chat about host city of Brighton, the host of 1974, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1974, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1974 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

The First Day of Love – Anne-Karine and the Bendik Singers (Norway)

Die Sommermelodie – Cindy and Bert (Germany)

Keep Me Warm – Carita (Finland)

Canta y sé feliz – Peret (Spain)

Fleur de liberté – Jacques Hustin (Belgium)

Long Live Love – Olivia Newton-John (United Kingdom)

Bye Bye I love you – Ireen Sheer (Luxembourg)

I See a Star – Mouth and MacNeal (Netherlands)

Si – Gigliola Cinquetti (Italy)

Waterloo – ABBA (Sweden)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year for Season Five:

In episode 99, we’re off to The Hague for Eurovision 1976! Which means, episode 100 will be 1977!

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Hypercut of the postcards: https://www.youtube.com/@EuropeLyrics2012

Check out A Tech Ops History blog here: http://tech-ops.co.uk/next/more-eurovision-memories/

Rewind ESC 1974 here: https://x.com/RewindESC

Snippets from Nine News Melbourne, Jimmy Rees’ Meanwhile in Brighton series, and the theme from The Wombles used only for storytelling and all their rights are reserved. We’re already dealing with Spotify not accepting our music licence, come on and give us a break.

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In this episode, we chat about host city of Amsterdam, the host of 1970, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1970, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1970 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include (either in full or part):

Je suis tombé du ciel – David Alexandre Winter (Luxembourg)

Pridi, dala ti bom cvet – Eva Sršen (Yugoslavia)

Occhi di ragazza – Gianni Morandi (Italy)

Viens l’oublier – Jean Vallée (Belgium)

Marlène – Dominique Dussault (Monaco)

Waterman – Patricia and Hearts of Soul (The Netherlands)

Retour – Henri Dès (Switzerland)

Marie-Blanche – Guy Bonnet (France)

Gwendolyne – Julio Iglesias (Spain)

Wunder gibt es immer wieder – Katja Ebstein (Germany)

Knock, Knock Who’s There? – Mary Hopkin (United Kingdom)

All Kinds of Everything – Dana (Ireland)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year for Season Five:

In episode 98, we’re in Brighton for Eurovision 1974!

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Intro and Indents provided by Shock Wave Sound. Into The Lights by Global Sound System.

We’re finally back to Eurovision in the 1970s!

In this episode, we chat about host city of Dublin, the host of 1971, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1971, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1971 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

Tvoj dječak je tužan – Krunoslav Slabinac (Yugoslavia)

Pomme, pomme, pomme – Monique Melsen (Luxembourgh)

One Day Love – Angela Farrell (Ireland)

Menina do alto da serra – Tonicha (Portugal)

Tijd – Saskia and Serge (The Netherlands)

L’amore è un attimo – Massimo Ranieri (Italy)

Jack in the Box – Clodagh Rodgers (United Kingdom)

Diese Welt – Katja Ebstein (Germany)

En un mundo nuevo – Karina (Spain)

Un banc, un arbre, une rue – Séverine (Monaco)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year for Season Five:

In episode 97, we’re in Amsterdam for Eurovision 1970!

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Check out the 1971 documentary uploaded by Peter Walsh ESC here: https://youtu.be/p-0f3cSqpLs?si=JwXDBYhKvmar7lBR

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Eurovision 2024. Well. It was a time.

We asked our listeners via our socials to give us topics to talk about, and we answered as best as we could. We hate having to say this, but as always here at WMP: these are our thoughts, and our opinions. 2024 was definitely an experience. You’re going to hear a lot of stories, these are just ours.

And for the first (and maybe only time), we recorded the podcast for YouTube, you can either listen OR watch here: https://youtu.be/dmcWm9n8tAc

Song played:

The Code – Nemo (Switzerland) – Grand Final Live Performance

We’ll be back to regular programming with Episode 96 – 1971 very soon!

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Eurovision 2024 is just around the corner and we are as mentally prepared as we can be in a very difficult time for the fandom.

Join Danie and Mark as they share their thoughts about all 37 songs Eurovision 2024 and play their Top 10 based on a Jury of two.

Songs discussed:

Titan – Besa (Albania)

Jako – Ladaniva (Armenia)

One Milkali (One Blood) – Electric Fields (Australia)

We Will Rave – Kaleen (Austria)

Özünlə apar – Fahree feat. Ilkin Dovlatov (Azerbaijan)

Before the Party’s Over – Mustii (Belgium)

Rim Tim Tagi Dim – Baby Lasagna (Croatia)

Liar – Silia Kapsis (Cyprus)

Pedestal – Aiko (Czechia)

Sand – Saba (Denmark)

(Nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi – 5miinust and Puuluup (Estonia)

No Rules! – Windows95man (Finland)

Mon Amour – Slimane (France)

Firefighter – Nutsa Buzaladze (Georgia)

Always on the Run – Isaak (Germany)

Zari – Marina Satti (Greece)

Scared of Heights – Hera Björk (Iceland)

Doomsday Blue – Bambie Thug (Ireland)

Hurricane – Eden Golan (Israel)

La Noia – Angelina Mango (Italy)

Hollow – Dons (Latvia)

Luktelk – (Lithuania)

Fighter – Tali (Luxembourg)

Loop – Sarah Bonnici (Malta)

In the Middle – Natalia Barbu (Moldova)

Europapa – Joost Klein (Netherlands)

Ulverham – Gåte (Norway)

The Tower – Luna (Poland)

Grito – Iolanda (Portugal)

11:11 – Megara (San Marino)

Ramonda – Teya Dora (Serbia)

Veronika – Raiven (Slovenia)

Zorra – Nebulossa (Spain)

Unforgettable – Marcus and Martinus (Sweden)

The Code – Nemo (Switzerland)

Teresa & Maria – Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil (Ukraine)

Dizzy – Olly Alexander (United Kingdom)

We’ll be back to regular programming with Episode 96 – 1971 after we get back from Eurovision in Malmö!

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In this episode, we chat about host city of Stockholm, the host of 1975, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1975, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1975 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein – Joy Flemming (Germany)

Gelukkig zijn – Ann Christy (Belgium)

At Ve’Ani – Shlomo Artzi (Israel)

That’s What Friends Are For – The Swarbriggs (Ireland)

Jennie, Jennie – Lars Berghagen (Sweden)

Mikado – Simone Drexel (Switzerland)

Et bonjour à toi l’artiste – Nicole (France)

Era – Wess & Dori Ghezzi (Italy)

Let Me Be The One – The Shadows (United Kingdom)

Ding-A-Dong – Teach-In (Netherlands)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year for Season Five:

In episode 96, we’re back in Dublin for 1971! But before that, we’ll be tackling a big monster with our 2024 preview episode, coming soon!

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In this episode, we chat about host city of Luxembourg, the host of 1973, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1973, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1973 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

Baby Baby – Nicole and Hugo (Belgium)

Gori vatra – Zdravko Čolić (Yugosalvia)

Chi sarà con te – Massimo Ranieri (Italy)

Do I Dream – Maxi (Ireland)

Junger Tag – Gitte Hænning (Germany)

Tom Tom Tom – Marion Rung (Finland)

You’re Summer – The Nova (Sweden)

Power to All Our Friends – Cliff Richard (United Kingdom)

Eres tú – Mocedades (Spain)

Tu te reconnaîtras – Anne-Marie David (Luxembourg)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year for Season Five:

In episode 95, we’re off to Stockholm for 1975!

If you like what we do, you can shout us a coffee https://ko-fi.com/windmachinepodcast. Every $3 goes towards the running costs of this podcast.

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Intro and Indents provided by Shock Wave Sound. Into The Lights by Global Sound System.

Snippets:

Cliff – Rik (The Young Ones, courtesy of BBC Two)

Brez besed – Berta Ambrož (Yugosalvia 1966)

In this episode, we chat about host city of Paris, the hosts of 1978, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1978, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1978 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

Dai li dou – Gemini (Portugal)

Boom Boom – Mabel (Denmark)

Det blir alltid värre framåt natten – Björn Skifs (Sweden)

‘t Is OK – Harmony (Netherlands)

The Bad Old Days – Co-Co (United Kingdom)

Parlez-vous français ? – Baccara (Luxembourg)

Feuer – Ireen Sheer (Germany)

Born to Sing – Colm CT Wilkinson (Ireland)

L’amour ça fait chanter la vie – Jean Vallée (Belgium)

A-Ba-Ni-Bi – Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta (Israel)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year for Season Five:

In episode 94, we’re off to Luxembourg City for 1973!

If you like what we do, you can shout us a coffee https://ko-fi.com/windmachinepodcast. Every $3 goes towards the running costs of this podcast. Huge thanks to Bart for your Ko-Fi!

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Follow our YouTube channel for Mark’s insights into Eurovision 2024 at https://www.youtube.com/@windmachineproductions

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Song snippets:

Yes Sir, I Can Boogie – Baccara