2 minute clips of all 6 UK hopefuls - follow the link

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Thanks for that Glen; I don't know how you feel but I don't hear the slightest sniff of a hit amongst them.

Not even one hit chord, let alone a note.

Your average identikit photocopy adequate Eurovision flop entries.

Why?

Even some of my failed finalists (Yodel In The Canyon Of Love?) were better than all these.

But you may disagree.

Couldn't agree more JK. Totally uninspiring from the clips i heard. The Rob McVeigh song sounds nice but i fear that none of them will have any impact at ESC.

Shame we can't bring Cyndi or Energia for example back - the good songs we bypassed in previous years!!!

Did you check out the Irish Turkey entry - earlier post?? A puppet at ESC! He's bound to win for Ireland

'Yodel In The Canyon Of Love' was the best UK winner we never had. Why didn't you fix the phone vote, JK like everyone else was doing at the time? It was a piss take but as damn good tune.

Well, Rusty, I loved Kerry and Kenny MacDonald (I used his teatowel just this evening) and the double entendre that went straight over the heads of the BBC bigwigs but I also felt we had a dead cert winner in Katrina and the Waves - which beat it.

And since I wanted a winner I was happy the Great British viewing public agreed with me (in those days my original idea of involving the punters was a useful, different and clever idea - not today, sadly, or even more sadly, TV executives don't seem aware).

homepage.ntlworld.com/waterloo/uk97.htm

Forgot it was up against the Canadian entry that year, hehe. Point taken. Shame though, it was a cracker.

I've just listened to the clips. Very uninspiring. I expect Changes by Simona will win. Some glimmer of originality in that one perhaps.

Yodel, You stayed away too long, All Time High, Only the women know, I need you, One gift of Love, Crazy. Just a few titles off the top of my head, from the JK era, which would have walked this year's selection. There are many more.

At least the Irish have attempted something different to take on those Eastern Europeans, with that bloody turkey!

And let's not forget the terrific Joanne May song "You stayed away too long" i think a Don Black penned track. I tell you what - i'd take that ahead of any entry we've had since Katrina!

Here is the song I wrote specially for Eurovision - rejected, of course.

You introduced me to that song in Helsinki last year, JK. I remember plugging it to any delegate prepared to give me the time of day. It would make a credible entry for any country, and with the right arrangement and a big stage performance, would stand a definite chance.

I imagine plenty of other good songs were rejected. I get the impression the BBC use music experts to choose the songs, but not people with any clue as to what it takes to win a song festival, which is a very specialist area.

If you're listening, BBC, I'm available!