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[farfromtheland]

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Eurovision 1967 Results: Voting & Points​

Eurovision 1967 results: All the voting and points from the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 in Vienna. United Kingdom won with the song "Puppet on a String" by Sandie Shaw with 47 points


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Eurovision 1968 Results: Voting & Points​

Eurovision 1968 results: All the voting and points from the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 in London. Spain won with the song "La, la, la" by Massiel with 29 points

^ had its moments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massiel
"On 25 March 1968, Joan Manuel Serrat, the Spanish representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 1968, was removed after recording, releasing, and promoting the song "La, la, la" –written by Manuel de la Calva [es] and Ramón Arcusa [es], the members of Dúo Dinámico–, for his demand to sing it in Catalan in the contest.[3] Therefore, Massiel, who was on tour in Mexico, was brought in as a late replacement. In just a few days, she had to rush back to Spain, learn the song, record it in several languages –Spanish, English, French, and German–, travel to several European cities for promotion, and go to London for the contest rehearsals.[4] On 6 April 1968, she performed "La, la, la" in the Eurovision Song Contest held at the Royal Albert Hall winning the competition beating the favorite, "Congratulations" by Cliff Richard, by just one point. She became the first performer from Spain to ever win the contest.[2]"

 

[First Aspect]

Buck's Fizz was 46 years ago. Our position in the world and, ahem, EUROPE - hello!, has changed since then.

The competition has also evolved. It is now an annual battle between camp and weird.

 

[Rusty Nails]

It was all so simple, and much smaller, in the days of Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson and the Allisons.

 

[First Aspect]

In other news, I broke my stereo. This is a device solely used to play music from a non compact media of some form. It is less convenient but more satisfying than getting a song you nearly want by shouting at Sonos.

My stereo is 30 years old. It has crossed the Atlantic, been in at least 10 places I have lived. It spent about 12 out of the last 20 years in a garage, sometimes wet, sometimes hot. I pulled it out last week in an effort to make my office less depressing and tried to fix the CD changer mechanism.

This did not go well because disassembly is easier than assembly.

I paid $800 dollars for it in 1996 and struggled to get a deposit on an apartment as a consequence. I remember seeing it on offer in Future Shop on Broadway in Vancouver the first week I was there and thinking, this is a bad idea, I am going to buy it.

It had a remote control. A stereo with a remote control. Imagine.

It was my friend when i wrote my thesis. I fell asleep 1000 times listening to the radio on it.

I am sorry to see it finally die.

But I inherited an amp from a deceased person who owned the house before me. His wife left it behind, untouched as part of something of a home cinema man room.

I went wild to the tune of £220 on ebay for a modern (2010 ha ha) CD changer and speakers (1999, ha ha).

It is not audiophile level stuff by any means, but there are bass notes in Telegraph Road I have never heard before. And never will again unless I turn it down.

Better still, CDs are the same price they were in 1986. (And they solved the issue with the inadvertent high and low pass filtering quite soon, even though the prejudice has stuck. I was around when spectroscopy first went analogue to digital and we were overjoyed because we could now do that, but we all knew what went wrong initially with CDs...)

Anyhow, I rarely cheer myself up.

Now I just have to figure out where the rest of my CDs are....

 

[Ian H]

It was all so simple, and much smaller, in the days of Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson and the Allisons.

I still remember the year when Al Jolson won it.

 

[First Aspect]

Did I mention that CDs are still the same price rhey were in 1986?

 

[Rusty Nails]

I still remember the year when Al Jolson won it.

Mammy told me about it.