How did you like France Gall? If you haven’t watched her yet, go back! Go back! OK, you’ve seen her? That was the winning entry in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest.
Now let’s see who won in 1974. There. That’s more like it. Talent!
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Edit: I neglected to include the original studio recording of the song, because I’d misplaced the CD. But here it be. As you would expect, this was a huge hit in Waterloo, Belgium, according to a friend who attended school there at the time.
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Was there ever really any meaning to an ABBA song?
Say, that isn’t Simon Cowell’s voice? No, of course, he’d be too young back then. Yeah, ABBA was terribly popular back when we were in college. There was (is?) a popular Broadway show using their music. I loved “Dancing Queen,” but didn’t get the meaning of a lot of their other songs, like “Fernando.” Their accents are adorable.