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Frenchie asks whether I know of France Gall in the UK?

Sadly, my education is a bit lacking about French singers....Apart from Mireille Matthieu (sp)...Charles Aznavoice...Sacha Distel...Jacques Cousteau (Somewhere under the sea)...Maurice the horse rider...Edith Piaf and Gilbert who has a similar sound and style to Paulo Conte.

 

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So, I watched some BBC TV on Saturday, actually the first TV I've watch since Christmas and what was on?

The selection of the UK entry singer/song  for Eurovision

I watched in sort of horrible fasination as

1) a pair of twins singing horribly flat (what was that? novelty value?)

2) a bloke with an adequate voice for say a West End musical chorus

3) a girl with a half decent voice a la Whitney Housten

belted out some songs for the honour (Ha!) of representing UK and singing an especially written ditty by Sir Andy Lloyd Weber.

OK so the girl won, big moment, sing the song.

IT WAS AWFUL  !!!

It was a ballad called something like ME ME ME

Started in the usual Sir ALW way and just when it should have burst into a rousing middle 8 bars it just limped along for another 3 minutes or so.

Instantly forgettable, another 'Nil Points' I think

 

Rant over, sorry

Edited for spelling and English.  Sorry, I souldn't post when I'm so annoyed

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Very well put I think

I know that the Eurovision song contest is just a bit of nonsense but there are great British songwriters and there are great British singers so why do we get this embarsssing third rate rubbish?  

 I think that is what is annoying me so much

And this year we won't even have Terry Wogan's acerbic comments to liven it up

 

I'll be cheering for the French entry, whatever the song is [:D]

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[quote user="Âme"]Eh? It says that song came 4th, but then how could  you be expected to remember, it's soooo long ago. [Www]
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Iu0wzotvM
France won the year that I was born, but shared the glory. Those outfits! Lulu must have been responsible for the idea that girls with red hair should never wear pink. [+o(]
[/quote]

Just a few observations on that clip.  Who made that poor kid wear those short trousers in 1956? I remember Gigliola Cinquetti (who?) in 1964 and that Spanish girl must have taken some time to learn the words in 1968.

I must get out a bit more I think.

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He he [:D]

I remember a radio dj always watched eurovision with the subtitles on as the translations can be histerical.

Me too, to get out more but we have 30cm of snow and its still coming down. I missed my swimming pool conference today because of the roads are snowbound. Hope I can get there tomorrow.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IkbMd3Bygzs

Doesn't Ozzies cossy look good, no I didn't think so either [:D]

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