Favourite ever Eurovision entry?
I loved Are You Sure? by The Allisons. (61)
Love Is Blue - Paul Mauriat. (68)
Non Ho L'Eta by Gigliola Cinquetti (64)

and I have to say I think the best Eurovision entry EVER was...

Just A Little Bit by Gina G.

"puppet on a string" shandie shaw. (1967 is the first eurovision contest i can remember)

Thats the first one I recall D Jones as well, but I have to go for Love City Groove, and Jah Wobbles excellent and credible re-mixes.

I find this quite tough to call over so many years but ones which would be up there are Love shine a light - Katrina, L'amour est bleu Vicky, Lordi last year, Den Vilda Sweden 96, Peter Sue & Marc Switz 1981, Greece 1976 Mariza Koch - i'd have to go by decades really as the list would be too long!

My favourite was Power To All Our Friends by Cliff Richard. I also like A Little Piece by Nicole and Rock Bottom by Lindsey De Paul & Mike Moran, among many others. Each year has turned out something fairly good, although the best one doesn't always win.

My all time favourite would be "Bitakat Hob" by Samira Bensaid, the only Moroccan entry back in 1980. Achieved a disgracefully poor seven points. She's still a popular singer in North Africa, under the name of Samira Said, as far as I know. The best winner was Toto Cutugno's winner for Italy in 1990.

To name a song that anyone other than a Eurovision anorak such as myself has heard of, I'd have to go for Paul Mauriat's wonderful 'L'amour est bleu".

And just to add insult to injury, here is the link to my all time favourite Eurovision song.

In fact it's probably my all time favourite
song period.

Feel free to call me insane. Assuming the link works. As I have said before, I'm a bit retarded when it comes to computers.

I think it`s very good actually.

Us UK musicians and writers often use Morrocan, Lebanese and Indian influences on our work but very rarely give the accolade back when our work is given a firm nod back from the original art forms.

I had a long discussion with a producer friend of mine, as I was playing the notes "in between" the notes on the western scales, very much in the way that Samira`s vocal sits over the near standard backings.

I am yet to meet anyone who can sing like that.
The sad thing is, if you keep the backing music in your head for a bit, and think of a more "EuroStandard" friendly lyric and tune, you would probably beat the 7 points.

Thanks for the link Anthony - excellent stuff and I still wish the North African countries could compete in ESC.
The combination of Western and Arabic sounds (think Khaled and, to a lesser, Turkish degree, Tarkan) works really well.

This entry would win ESC2007.

Rock Bottom by Lynsey De Paul and Mike Moran, this was the first time I watched the Eurovision Song Contest and now I don't enjoy as much as I used to.

Mine has to be the b-side to Hoog Hoogan and the Hoognotes entry that came 5th in the Song For Norway in 1976.

Sadly the band, the songs writers, publishers, recording engineers etc. everybody who was involved with the song died in a horrible plane crash.

Mine has to be the b-side to Hoog Hoogan and the Hoognotes entry that came 5th in the Song For Norway in 1976.

Sorry, that was actually Nin Huugen and the Huugen Notes. What a feckin eejit!