American Reacts United Kingdom in Eurovision Song Contest (1957-2022)

[@David-The-YorkshireMan]

She IS SANDY FROM GREASE!

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

Yes, she is, and we schoolboys used to nickname her "Olivia Neutron Bomb"! ❤😂

[@nightowl5395]

Yes, she was so lovely....was it only last year she died... 🤔

[@tamaravanhees1749]

I laughed when you said "She looks like Sandy from Grease" 😂

[@jamesswindley9599]

1974 ❤ Olivia newton yasssss xoxox ❤

[@almostyummymummy]

​@@t.a.k.palfrey3882damn. Why didn't I - a Kiwi girl who was madly infatuated with her - not think of that!?

[@kwesiidun8512]

"She looks like Sandy from Grease". That's because she literally WAS Sandy from Grease! 🤣🤣🤣 And our 1991 entrant Samantha Janus (now Womack) is now a big actress in this country. Her biggest role was Veronica "Ronnie" Mitchell in EastEnders, which is one of our major soap operas in the UK. Also, if you've seen the first Kingsman film "The Secret Service" she was in that as Eggsy Unwin's mum Michelle. And she was also in the sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle at the very end!

[@jjc5407]

Connor should check out the sitcom Game On starring Janus.

[@randomamericansescreaction1590]

Your "let's end world hunger" song is basically Eurovision in a nutshell anyway

[@royescfan9594]

Olivia Newton John was Sandy in Grease. You should see the entire performance of the song. Not a great song but her performance was outstanding.

[@madabbafan]

She hated the song as well.

[@HazyIndustries]

I came to the comments just to check some one had told him 🤣

[@uztre6789]

Yeah, there's no way he's not trolling there to get someone to comment it

[@chrissyutube]

She should have won hands down, but that song is the pits 😂

[@brockreynolds870]

@@chrissyutube Sorry.... but literally nobody could win against Waterloo.

[@matijamaksan4344]

32:30 Don't worry, it doesn't work. Ireland send this year song titled ''We are One'' and it didn't qualify. Just pick a year and watch the whole show. Just try it. Since 2009 all bad songs are dropped in semi-finals and you have really enjoyable songs in final. Even last place songs are still decent songs and crazy/funny songs are really catchy.

[@Dennan]

you should react to winners of euro vision from 1957 - 2022, some songs there might shock you, songs you heard so many times but never realize they were from eurovision, i had that wow movement when i lookt at it.

[@paulojrneto]

A few curiosities about these entries: 1959 - Apparently Pearl and Teddy weren't aware that they were going to a competition and thought that Eurovision was just a gig from their tour. 1964 - The singer of the James Bond theme From Russia With Love 1965 - Kathy Kirby reportedly punched winner France Gall in the face 1966 - Kenneth was wearing a Scottish kilt 1967 - Sandie was the first Eurovision singer perform barefoot 1969 - Lulu had a US #1 hit with To Sir With Love and was married to Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees 1970 - Mary was a Paul McCartney protegé and is best known for her hit Those Were The Days 1972 - The same band who sang the Coke jingle I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing 1974 - Yes, that's Sandy from Grease 1988 - Scott only lost to Céline Dion (who won representing Switzerland) by just one point 1991 - Samantha went on to be more famous as an actress. She was in the Kingsman movies. 1993 - Sonia performed this song at this year's contest interval act. 1994 - Frances won a Tony for her a role in the Les Miserable and is the mother of singer Eliza Doolittle. 1995 - This was the first rap song at Eurovision 1996 - This was a US top 20 hit and was nominated for a Grammy 1997 - The same band of the 80's hit Walking On Sunshine 2000 - Nicki had a US hit in 1995 with a dance cover of Total Eclipse Of The Heart 2008 - Andy took part in X-Factor UK and he worked as a garbage collector 2009 - Andrew Lloyd-Webber on the piano 2012 - Englebert is famous for his 60's hit Release Me, a US #4 hit 2013 - Bonnie is famous for the 80's hits Total Eclipse Of The Heart and Holding Out For A Hero 2018 - A guy invaded the stage during Surie's performance and stole her mic, but she kept going. She was offered the chance to perform again but turned it down.

[@jjc5407]

A few well-known UK music acts amongst all these years of Eurovision Connor, plus a few former TV talent-show contestants: Cliff Richard (1968 & 1973) is simply a legend. His career started in 1958 with The Shadows (1975) as his backing band. He's sold over 250 million records and is only behind The Beatles and Elvis Presley in UK singles sales. He's still recording and performing today. Hank Marvin of The Shadows was the first person to own a Fender Stratocaster in the UK, bought for him by Cliff Richard, and is cited as a huge influence on every famous UK guitarist you can think of from Jimmy Paige to Eric Clapton, Dave Gilmour to Mark Knopfler. Lulu (1969) is most well-known for her song Shout, which has a very famous opening, and for performing Re-light My Fire with the UK's best-known boy-band Take That who recently headlined the King's Coronation Concert. She also acted in the film To Sir, With Love starring the great Sidney Poitier. Olivia-Newton John (1974) is, as you sort-of recognised, most famous for playing Sandy in Grease opposite John Travolta. She was good friends with Cliff Richard and performed with him on several occasions during a lengthy musical and acting career. Bucks Fizz (1981) went on to have a successful chart career, but various lineup changes then resulted in a complete legal mess over ownership of the name. Last I heard 3 of the 4 are still performing but under the name "The Fizz". Samantha Janus (1991) who caught your eye is an actress. You should check out the sitcom Game On! Michael Ball (1992) is a musical-theatre legend and occasional TV and Radio presenter. Sonia (1993) was part of the Stock, Aiken and Watermen stable which dominated UK pop music in the late '80s. She's from Liverpool and appeared during the interval at this year's Eurovision to rapturous applause from her home-town crowd. Gina G (1996) is basically just known for that one Eurovision song, but "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit" was number one in the UK for weeks and did well in the US. It was even nominated for a Grammy! Katrina and the Waves (1997) are most famous for their song "Walking on Sunshine". James Fox (2004), Andy Abraham (2008) and Lucie Jones (2017) all appeared on TV singing competition, Fox on a short-lived BBC series called Fame Academy and the other two on Simon Cowell's X-Factor. Jones was disgracefully voted off by Cowell in favour of Irish twins Jedward after he'd spend weeks criticising them. Jedward have twice represented Ireland at Eurovision. Jones meanwhile has carved out a career in musical theatre with the occasional acting role on TV. Blue (2011) are a well-known UK boyband. Engelbert Humperdinck (2012) became a star in the 1960s, with hits in both the UK and US. Bonnie Tyler (2013) is famous for her raspy voice. Her most famous song is Total Eclipse of the Heart which was a number one smash in both the UK and US. Others include It's a Heartache and Holding Out for a Hero.

[@johnnyklingborg6127]

It took a while before i realized it was a video with only UK entries, i tought i was ECS runner ups at first.

[@michelski3528]

You're right! She is the same actress/singer who plays Sandy from Grease

[@bloody_sais]

9:24 'Come On Eileen' by Dexys Midnight Runners (1982) is the song you're thinking of

[@jeffreyweitzman6463]

Gee's - the banging on about message songs...if you think the judges were influenced by that kind of thing at Eurovision you definitely need to research more what the whole essence of Eurovision is!

[@cheryla7480]

She was Sandy from Grease. Lol, that was Olivia Newton John!

[@danfrost3043]

The 2013 entry is Bonnie Tyler, very famous & established artist. Remember "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" and "Holdin Out For A Hero" also 1974 was Olivia Newton John, very famous around the world, yes she was Sandy in Grease, also famous for Xanadu, she sadly died earlier this year.

[@sophiamcl]

About extremely floofy hair in 1984: Hairspray is a part of it, but her entire hair has been "ratted" or "teased" or "back combed". You've probably heard of a "teasing comb", also known as a rattail. It's a technique used to create volume, but then you would carefully comb "non-ratted", smooth strand of hair over it. This was often used in the some 50's and 60's hairstyles. Here, her hair has just been ratted, placed in the desired shape and hairsprayed. How ratting is done: Each strand of hair is made up of tiny scales that face one way. When not messed with, your hair lies smooth. However, if you take a strand of hair and vigorously comb the hairs from the tip towards the scalp, the little scales get "roughed up" and hook on to each other, like a "rat's nest" if you will. Do it with several strands of hair and you can use hairspray to shape them. Here is a tutorial:

[@dyread]

I was going to try to explain backcombing, but you did it much better than I would. I had many a back combed hairstyle, as did my mother in the 60s.

[@sophiamcl]

"Come On Eileen" is not as similar as you think. Although the chorus "jumps about" to a similar degree, when compared next to each other, the intervals are different, so the tunes are clearly distinguishable from each other, not to mention the style and accompaniment. Still, I'm pretty impressed that you made that connection.

[@wendajones9040]

Most of these songs leave me pretty cold. Liked Katrina and the waves though. Enjoyed your Swedish video more.

[@madabbafan]

Some of the drop off in the UKs results is that we frankly stopped caring about it but also up until 1999 (except for 4 years in the early to mid 70s) all countries had to sing in their native language(s). As English is one of the most widely spoken languages it handed the UK and Ireland a bit of an advantage u til the rule was scrapped, now most entries are in English)

[@chrisperyagh]

'Save Your Kisses For Me' has pretty much the same chord progression as 'If' by David Gates and '(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice' by Amen Corner - it's the same progression as the main theme from Khachaturian's 'Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia' (also used as the theme to 'The Onedin Line') Ryder is what you get when you order Bryan Ferry off Wish.

[@chrisperyagh]

@Brynn Tyne Pipes Alright mate, lighten up.

[@nightowl5395]

@@chrisperyagh 😄

[@rixsist7048]

34:16 You’re visibly gutted that Lucie Jones got 15th in Eurovision? Wait until you watch the video where Simon Cowell voted her out of The X Factor over Jedward 😮

[@EmoBearRights]

Don't listen to all the people saying its political - they're talking out of their buttholes. As you can see - we lost a massive advantage of everyone else not being able to sing in English and you got countries like Ukraine and Turkiye who sent classically trained musicians who took the competition seriously, knew how to write a tune, and pushed boundaries staging wise. Last year - we sent a brilliant singer with an engaging personality with a song he co-wrote with a lady who also worked on Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud and we staged the song well and we came second. This year....well you can't win them all even Italy has had the odd off year.

[@davidmarsden9800]

The 2013 entry by Bonnie Tyler who is Welsh and is a major star since the 1980s with some iconic hit songs. Engelbert Humperdinck has been a major star in the UK and the US since 1967. I saw him as a guest star in the Lonnie Donegan Show in Blackpool in 1967 a couple of months after his first number 1 record.

[@Tejiknasten]

Thank's for a great reaction. You really should react to the winners, runner ups and 3:rd places of Eurovision 🌞

[@Morsning]

Yes please!

[@british_chippy6518]

We’ve had some shocking entries over the years but whether we’re good or not we expect to come last, regardless. When Sam Ryder kept climbing up the leaderboard nobody knew what to do with themselves 😂

[@janeslater8004]

Yes. Graham norton said. If you just tuning in this really happening uk are leading in eurovision

[@nightowl5395]

@@janeslater8004 😄 I didn't remember that...

[@wendycartwright22]

What was more shocking was the French gave us 12 points 😮

[@steveedington934]

Europe hates us.

[@nigelpilgrim4232]

Look s likes Sandy from grease !? 👌 thats because it was her !! Olivia Newto John to be precise yes she was English & moved to Australia & then America !!! Like the BeeGees !!! 🤪🤪⚡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@michw3755]

I've only just stopped laughing at when you said Cliff Richard looked like Austin Powers 😂😂😂 even then he was quite famous in Britain, still is to us golden oldies 😜

[@nightowl5395]

I am amazed at just how many times we have been placed second...! Cliff Richard's dancing style...even bearing in mind it's "of its time" 😄

[@madabbafan]

Don't forget for most of our 2nd places the native language rule was in place so that did hand the UK and Ireland a bit of an advantage.

[@lorrainet6798]

Oh Conor you do make me laugh. Don’t change. I was overseas from 1975 to 1984 so this was a kind of catch up for me and, I haven’t watched it since 1975 so a very big catch up. 😊

[@daveyboy19761]

It is Sandy from Grease singing in 1974 - Olivia Newton John.

[@hanifleylabi8071]

The accent you were hearing in the older songs is mostly a variation of the transatlantic accent. Originally it was an accent of the US upper classes and media which tried to sound sophisticated by incorporating elements of English upper class accents. A similar trend started to happen in the other direction as US pop culture grew where British artists incorporated elements of American accents to sound cooler. Nowadays the balance has tipped even further towards the American accent.

[@The22Jeanne]

I just loved it how Olivia freaking Newton-John is "okay, but she's very beautiful" and " looks like Sandy in Grease" !!!

[@TheAuburnEnigma]

That little smile you got when Sam came on at the end... one thing I haven't seen in the comments below where people are saying who went onto better things, is that Michael Ball who came 2nd in 1992 is one of our biggest musical theatre stars. Hope you somehow get to see some footage of the 2023 competition - I'm not a fan of the winner, but the contest itself was amazing. From the homage to Ukraine right at the start, to the Liverpool songbook in the interval (Sonia from 1993 performed there, as well as some of the Eurovision stars from the last few years), Hannah Waddingham and Graham Norton being brilliant during the voting section, it was just epic.

[@archmilan]

There's a very good reason why Olivia Newton-John looks like Sandy from Grease :D

[@stuarthumphrey1787]

The song you're trying to remember is, Dexys midnight runners with Come on Eileen

[@christofferlahrin5149]

You mean the 1976 British winner sounds like Come on Eilieen by Dexy’s Midnight Runners, that came in the beginning of the 80’s. I don’t think it’s that similar. But I think it reminds a lot of ”Yellow Ribbon”, an american song from a few years earlier. And in 1974 it was ”Sandy” (australian Olivia Newton-John, who died last year) who sang. She lost to us swedes btw, who took our first 1st place with ABBA, generally considered the biggest Eurovision smash of all time (50 years next year, when the competetion again will be in Sweden, thanks to Loreens second win a week ago! The UK has the highest Number of rummet ups; around 15 of them, including last year. But now you should react to Sweden’s Eurovision history, now that we since last week have tied Irelands record of most wins!

[@35geordielad]

Sonia who was part of the Stock Aitken Waterman hit factory of the 90s did brilliant for the uk in 1993 coming 2nd. Our 2011 entry were the boy band "Blue" who had many hits in the uk and Europe in the 2000s

[@airgelaal]

Lucie Jones was wonderful. She was perfect. I was at the rehearsals of that Eurovision and during her performance I always had goosebumps. She sang the whole song herself and without mistakes. But, unfortunately, the audience did not like some of the close-ups of her performance. This greatly worsened her results.

[@jjc5407]

She's extremely talented and, whilst she's had a successful career in musical theatre, deserved much more as a recording artist. Cowell voting her off the X-Factor in favour of Jedward was one of the single most pathetic moments in talent-show history.

[@EmoBearRights]

​​@@jjc5407 She's currently in Wicked in the West End, she released an album of musicals songs in lockdown- Defying Gravity indeed.

[@Tom-ed-w]

bonnie tyler use to stay at my grampas house. :) Her sister shops in asda local

[@janeslater8004]

I also really like surie 2018.too. She was ambushed too half way through from a protestor who took her microphone off her the audience carried on singjng but then she picked it up and continued to finish song. Poor girl

[@kernow9324]

It's shocking that someone was able to do that. I felt so sorry for her. Great song too.

[@andywatkins2876]

Yes, many Brits do sound American when singing. Also, 1997 entry sung by Katrina, who was from Topeka, Kansas.

[@johnforrester7961]

Hi Connor, I lived through the 1970s and 1980s too. The hair spray that people used then was known as hair lacquer... and it smelt awful (a bit like the lacquer that is used on car bodywork nowadays). Once applied it just stayed there until brushed out. So you created the look you wanted (backcombing, fluffing) and then lacquered it in place. By the way, if you get a chance to watch the film (sorry movie) Working Girl with Melanie Griffith and some others :-) you'll see some great "big hair' and learn about the 1980s.

[@grahamgresty8383]

Samantha Janus became a sucessful actress. She is also the neice of the famous soccer player George Best! Bonnie Tyler is best known as the singer of Jim Steinman songs and 'holding out for a hero' is my favourite'. I used to play this before junior soccer games. Funny thing was the teams who like it won, the teams who didn't lost!

[@Chillmax]

I had no memory of how forgettable our entries have been in the past 25 years, 1997 was good though; the older stuff is much, much better!

[@moaahlgren5193]

I love your input on things!

[@kg291]

we do have a contest in the uk on who wins to compete in eurovision, we dont mix n match contestants

[@sophiamcl]

About the singer in the clip from 1977: There's nothing creepy about appreciating a particular facial feature. A small mole like that is also called a "beauty mark" and have been in fashion some part of several centuries. Marilyn Monroe famously had one, as did the 80's supermodel Cindy Crawford, just to give a couple of examples.

[@clairejohnson6522]

Exactly.It's not creepy but natural for men to find certain characteristics and attributes on a female attractive.If they didn't the human race would die out!

[@RaiderReborn]

Lynsey DePaul was on record as saying she used to deliberately use make up to make it as obvious as possible. (the more you know!)

[@simonround2439]

Olivia Newton-John was Sandy from Grease!

[@mjq3555]

2020 James Newman If that clip had run for about 5 more seconds the phrase is repeated and the second time the woh-woh-wohs DO go up, so good call. BTW full versions of many of these songs are on KZbin so if there was anything you particularly liked you could check it out.

[@melscienerf5977]

Oh and the hair.... Curlers, perms, hair spray and backcombing.... The 80s was a nightmare on hair 😂 The mohicans were the real baffler...and they were all hair spray, or as my cousins friend did... Spray paint 😂 his hair fell out 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@enemde3025]

We used to do very well in Eurovision in the days before no one likes us !! That IS Sandy from Grease. Olivia Newton John. This year....2nd BOTTOM !!!

[@nightowl5395]

Yes...deservedly so, in my opinion 😄

[@madabbafan]

Nothing to do with no one liking us, it is to do with the fact we keep sending rubbish. When we enter something which is actually good, like 2022 we still do well. A member of the Swedish delgation once said ' we don't hate Britain, we just don't understand why a country with the biggest music industry in Europe keeps sending such awful acts'.

[@dannjp75]

Never really been into Eurovision but Sam Ryder was pretty damn awesome. Only came second because of sympathy votes, which is fine due to the circumstances.❤

[@janedeacondeacon9832]

BUT IT IS NOT FINE AS THIS CHARADE IS A HUGE TAXPAYER FUNDED POLITICAL EGO TRIP ,SCRAP IT.

[@justinneill5003]

He was great but it wasn't his best song IMO. "Mountain" (which he sang as a guest this year) was better. "Whirlwind" is even better still, but it's too sensitive and subtle for Eurovision.

[@dannjp75]

@Smear Campaign or if we had been invaded. NOT SINCE 1066 SUCKAZ!😂🤘🏻

[@dannjp75]

@@justinneill5003 yeah, I’m not a Eurovision fan and by extension, not a Sam Ryder fan. Though I give him kudos for effort

[@dannjp75]

@Smear Campaign *wasn’t invaded since 1066 until recently..😂

[@garrickdarts]

Your "wobbly hand" gesture to Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit - that was top 10 in about 20 countries, was nominated for a Grammy, is consistently voted one of the best dance tracks of the 90s, and its lower placing than expected from its real world performance led to an overhaul of the voting methods in Eurovision ;-)

[@twigletz7384]

Oh Conor ... your mother is the same age as me! I was a student in the 80s, and let me tell you, I was sooo experimental with my hair! At one time I had a huge puffy quiff (I'm female by the way) and I spent a good amount of time using this weird smelling green gel that set hard after a while. I'd back-comb to foof it up so it stuck up on end then use a comb to smooth it back before setting it in position with copious amounts of hair spray! The rest of my hair would be in a pony tail tied with a big bow. Can you imagine it? You did ask lol!

[@old.not.too.grumpy.]

Lucie Jones brilliant performance and song so under marked in 2017. However this was just after the UK had voted to leave the EU in 2016. After some of the comments made by British politicians about Europe it a wonder she wasn't 26th

[@havensmm9308]

Olivia Newton-John is an amazing singer. In the US she was the biggest selling female recording artist of the 1970's and the second biggest selling female recording artist of the 1980's. The song she sang in 1974 was not a great song and as one British critic said at the time, "the British entry would have been a total disaster had it not been for ONJ's performance". Before she was in the movie "Grease", she already had 3 Grammy Awards, numerous American Music Awards and was the Country Music Association's female vocalist of the year in 1974. She was a huge country-pop crossover artist, really the first female to do this. I recommend checking out Wings of Pegasus vocal analysis on ONJ. Such a huge ICON. RIP Legend.😀

[@anthony111isevilok]

Could you do a reaction video to the Ireland Eurovision entries? 😁

[@Babesinthewood97]

I prefer the Eurovision oldies, for sure. It had a low point around 1990-2010. Now it’s pretty interesting again.

[@RoxanneLavender]

Nice reaction about that 'never give up on you' song by Lucie Jones or whatever, she was excellent, the song was excellent. I think the problem was that she started making these crazy faces singing the song in the final and that creeped everyone out, she would've gotten a higher placement if not for that.

[@manchestertart5614]

Matt Monro ❤️❤️❤️❤️ The Italian job ,1969 …. Days like these … it’s beautiful.

[@eilidhwatson8406]

Haha the 80's hair was crazy!! rollers backcombing and bucket loads of hairspray, a serious fire hazard for sure haha

[@productjoe4069]

9:30 the song you’re singing is ‘Come On Eileen’ by Dexys Midnight Runners, an early 80s British ska group (same scene as Madness and the Specials). It’s a different vibe…

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

Some singers and groups are easy to identify as British by their accents. These include Sting, Supertramp, Adele, Tom Jones (with his Welsh lilt), UB40, Rag 'n' Bone Man, Oasis, Stereophonics, Pet Shop Boys, Ed Sheeran, Rolling Stones, Phil Collins, and most Liverpuddlian groups.

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

Beatles, kinks, who, pulp, blur. Oasis don't sound particularly british but none of the british artists sound american it's just a singing voice.

[@l.j.3866]

When the UK started sending people who couldn't sing, it all went south.

[@jpjustscouse6031]

My city hosted this years LIVERPOOL we got 2nd to last n Sweden won wif tattoo by loreen AMAZINGGG!!!! She has already won before but she’s so good

[@simmonb80]

As a Britt, it really annoys me that the Britt go to attitude, is to claim fix, or say we are hated, when we inevitable don't do well after sending crap song, after crap song. The only time that I genuinely felt like we were robbed, was Lucy Jones, she definitely deserved better, but all the other times I felt our positions were justified.

[@RoxanneLavender]

When we Brits relax our voices/mouths to sing we sound American because that's what American is, relaxed English.

[@nameisamine]

29:27 Blue actually had a lot of U.K. hit records in the 00’s. Their actually one of the cooler male pop groups the U.K. had during that decade.

[@davidmarsden9800]

You missed that Olivia Newton John that you said was pretty was Sandy in Grease. Also the woman who you were creeping over was Lyndsey De Paul who was the long time girlfriend of James Cobern the Hollywood actor.

[@jamesswindley9599]

When Americans or Brits sing. It’s called a Transatlantic Accent. 😂😅 we both lose it ❤

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

Sometimes

[@benrgrogan]

To be fair not all. People like Lilly Allen and Sophie Ellis Bextor manage to maintain their accent

[@robertgough5640]

oh and to answer the hair question - It was backcombed to within an inch of its life kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3Ksm4mbfJmSiZo

[@murmursmeglos]

I think there's a slight bias against UK/Germany/France/Spain/Italy, as they are fast-tracked to the final due to giving the most money, while everyone else has to go through semi-final rounds. But it's rare for those 5 to do well, UK and Germany are often near the bottom nowadays. As it got more political, the UK started taking the piss out of it, so it came off like we didn't care while other countries take it very seriously. So we had to start pretending to care again. lol People exaggerate the impact of leaving the EU when there's like 40 countries voting and 27 EU members, if you're punishing non-EU countries there's like a dozen. I'm curious what gives way as the contest keeps getting bigger.

[@janeslater8004]

there would be no eurovision if those 5 did not fund it. Its an expensive production

[@josephstanton4872]

The Golden Era of Eurovision was 1967 with Sandie Shaw with Puppet on a String which apparently she didn't like, but I believe changed her mind afterwards to about 1977! In that never to be forgotten period was Sandie, Cliff Richard, Lulu, Mary Hopkin and Dana! It's only watched now for laughs, any remotely decent song gets nowhere! 😮

[@atlantia]

She was Sandie from grease, may she rest in peace

[@nightowl5395]

I enjoyed watching you watch those....the good and the bad 😬....and am always interested to hear your thoughts; great video topics 👍

[@Supragt]

My parents were born in 1965 and 1968 respectively. I will be 20 this year. Hi from Singapore 🇸🇬

[@melscienerf5977]

"looks like sandy from grease" oh bless you, that's Olivia newton John and she was sandy lol. The rif on "save all your kisses for me" is similar to "come on Eileen" you're not wrong. Haha you don't wanna be creepy... Yet you leave it in the video instead of editing it out 😅🤦🏻‍♀️

[@Walesbornandbred]

Olivia Newton-John (R.I.P) was in Grease among other films, before that she had a good singing career. While it's true songwriters would want the best singer to interpret their work Eurovision is supposed to be judged on the best song not singer.

[@havensmm9308]

ONJ had an amazing singing career. In the US she was the biggest selling female recording artist of the 1970's and the second biggest selling female recording artist of the 1980's. She sold over 100 million albums. Such an amazing singer. Too bad she got stuck with a not very good song. But losing Eurovision in 1974 was probably one of the best things that happened to her in 1974. It left her free to move to the US where her music was already having huge success with 2 top 10 hits and more to follow...

[@samnemeth-smyth6109]

Our Eurovision got shit after we stupidly let an anonymous group of "music producers" select the act rather than let the public decide like we used too 😑 Sam Ryder has been the only real exception to that.

[@janeslater8004]

They used to choose it before tho like with olivia newton john cliff richard.

[@jphaggerty9046]

"Our Eurovision got shit after we stupidly let an anonymous group of "music producers" select the act rather than let the public decide like we used too" The public picked Jemini, Javine, Daz Sampson, Scooch, Andy Abraham, Josh Dubovie, SuRie and Michael Rice. The public's choice doesn't always do well.

[@kernow9324]

@@jphaggerty9046 I watched Jemini this week because I thought perhaps I'd misremembered how shocking it was. I'm afraid to say it really was as bad as I remembered.

[@madabbafan]

Have you forgotten the UK public selected Jemini, Scooch, Josh Dubove, Daz Sampson, SuRe......

[@rocketrabble6737]

@@jphaggerty9046 It's not an 'open' choice though and never has been. Personally I've never given a rat's arse about the whole shebang

[@mcsmcs4060]

It turned political in the 90s and still is, havnt watched it for years.

[@robertgough5640]

Connor Olivia Newton John, was Sandy in Greece. Although she was Australian she represented the UK in 1974 for us. Sadly she died of Breast Cancer recently

[@WinterMelody12]

She was born in Cambridge.

[@josephstanton4872]

I've just seen Clodagh Rodgers, how could I forget Cloagh, also Olivia Newton John and Brotherhood of Man!

[@Lixmage]

That's because she WAS Sandy in Grease! 🙂

[@dorothysimpson2804]

You were thinking of "Come on Eileen" by Dexys Midnight Runners. You should have heard Terry Wogans commentary years ago, if the other countries had heard him we would have been at war. The contest allows you to have singers from other countries. Scott Walker was American. Some of our songs have been stinkers🙉🙉🙉

[@pamelajoanne3628]

Love City Groove lives rent free in my 38 year old brain complete with dance moves

[@natmanprime4295]

"come on darlene"!! youve americanised it again!! like when you said "harry EINFELD" 🤣🤣🤣

[@johnforrester7961]

...and on a completely different topic, Sweden has just equalled Ireland's record if I'm not mistaken. Both countries have now won the bally thing 7 times 🙂 Oh, thanks, much enjoyed this 'cos I missed a lot of this at the time.

[@markwolstenholme3354]

Politics my friend 😂😂. You're right about the UK/American accent in many songs, they mingle and definitely sway towards the more musical American accent.

[@chrisperyagh]

24:22 - Gemini doing their bit in bringing polytonality to Eurovision.

[@yarzyn_5699]

That was Sandy from Grease - Olivia Newton-John.

[@stephenlee5929]

Connor, the hair you asked about was backcombed, basically you hold the hair up and brush it down its length.

[@kennybrown_ni]

Depending onthe music you gravitate towards can change the accent u sing in. I am from Northern Ireland and sing in an English accent.

[@cameronmcdonald2023]

Did you notice the sixteen 2nd Places?

[@mervinmannas7671]

The UK had 5 first places and 15 second places from 57 - 99 Placing the uk first statically in each decade except the 90's when we were 2nd due to Irelands 4 wins in 5 years. People tend to forget just how good we were in the compitition because our run since 2000 has been so dismal.

[@nightowl5395]

Interesting...thanks 🤔

[@Flutesrock8900]

@@nightowl5395 A few of those wins were probably also due to the fact that other countries (at times) weren't allowed to sing in english though.

[@mervinmannas7671]

@@Flutesrock8900 Not really as up until 1990 only 8 songs had won in English. 4 UK, 3 Ireland and 1 Sweden. The most common language by far until then was French with 14 from various countrys. So I cant see theres an argument there.

[@lincliff663]

Most Brits sing with an American accent as they say the lyrics flow better. It's not always the case, especially in the 80s & 90s onwards when Britpop had bands from all over the country singing in their respective dialects. (Olivia Newton John was Sandy from Grease).

[@radouanezid425]

This is only the British songs involved in the Europ song contest

[@amyw6808]

I’ve just realised how much influence Eurovision had on my childhood in the late 80s and 90s - I think I can sing all the lyrics to all of those songs 🙈🙈🙈 I don’t recognise any from the 21st century and they’re all rubbish until Sam Ryder.

[@timothyallan111]

Correction: Yesterday, I rather sloppily wrote that it is standard nowadays for UK artists to sing with an American accent (apart from Sophie Ellis-Bextor etc), what I really meant was a trans-Atlantic accent, which utilises key American sounds, particularly the rhotic R sound. If you asked artists to speak their lyrics as they have sung them, they would not sound like truly British English.

[@gazevedo1025]

Over the years, there are more and more countries as you can see in the bottom corner as well as points systems and politics changing. There are many things, like you and other commenters have said, to keep in mind while watching.

[@annbottelli5682]

It''s called back combing, Take a stand of hair and push the comb from the tip to the roots many times, it is guaranteed to stick out at right angles to the head, then spray it !😂😂

[@Bazroshan]

14:16 It's not hair, it's egg noodles. Our two most cringeworthy songs were in consecutive years, 2006 and 2007. The final scores are often inexplicable, I feel your pain.

[@sandrogattorno4962]

Ahahah :) She looks Sandy for grease... I'm wonder why XD And by the way, Come on Eyleen by Dexys midnight runner is a totally differnt song.