I have a dream, a song to sing
Now your dream is given – to participate in EUROVISION as an artist and now I want to hear for which country and the song from their entries you would like to sing.
I would take GERMANY and their 1982 winner EIN BISSCHIEN FRIEDEN and do it even in a few more languages like SWAHILI and CHINESE etc.
All the things I could do, if I had a little money
Another song by ABBA with repeat words. So this time we look at WHAT YOU WOULD DO IF YOU HAVE A LITTLE MONEY – and we narrow the field down to say what you have to spend in on Eurovision.
I would use that money to pay the participating fee of Croatia so they could join Eurovision.
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.
Can you heat the drums Fernando?
This is quite easy and simple. Lets turn our attention to Euro entries with drums – which song in Eurovision you love because of the drums?
The Netherlands has declared the 2016 Eurovision season open today when the Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS announced that they have chosen the artist internally to represent the Netherlands in Stockholm.
Douwe Bob, a 22 year old singer songwriter, is the first artist to be announced for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. In 2012, he won the talent show De beste singer-songwriter van Nederland (The best singer-songwriter in the Netherlands ) and has released 2 albums since then, including his latest album Pass It On which reached number 1 on the Dutch charts.
The actual song is still be be announced, but in the meantime, you can hear him in action dueting with the 2014 ESC entry for the Netherlands, Anouk.
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.
I could chat with you baby, flirt a little maybe
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.
