Melodifestivalen 1974

Шведский отборочный тур песен для Евровидения-74 проходил 9 февраля 1974 года.
The Swedish outtake to Eurovision Song Contest on February 9' 1974

[@ccf9908]

I love how crazy Benny gets on the piano when they play Waterloo the second time after they one. Probably was happy!!

[@eduardooscar309]

17:37 ABBA's turn is announced 18:10 ABBA makes its appearance to interpret the beautiful Waterloo at full power 53:05 on screen voting 1:06:20 Waterloo wins with 302 votes 1:12:06 Agnetha with an affectionate gesture to whom she congratulates her 1:13:13 ABBA returns to sing Waterloo but now with his eyes to Brighton (England) to win Eurovision They will go with the same costumes and choreography, but they will sing in English

[@luiscondeblazquez8518]

For me, Lena Eriksson's "En enda jord" was the best song. So charming!

[@alnaale6923]

Боже, какие они заводные! Просто счастье на них смотреть!

[@michaelmccarthy9670]

One of the best Eurovison songs fantastic

[@78rpm68]

Pop history in the making! No more, no less!

[@x2436ab]

Trevlig 40-årig nostalgi. Tack för uppladdningen !

[@marrrciagoood9010]

Jag tror hon är yngre men hon ser ut som 40.

[@herrfriberger5]

Vilken skillnad mot idag! Göran Fristorp gör en njutbar låt, med snygga ackordbyten.

[@davidmarshall5596]

Out if small acorns big oak trees grow...& it was ever thus...the rest is popular music 🎶 history in the making 🙂👌

[@rachajtle]

Wow. Thank you for the full lenght of this show!

[@porscha901]

August 1974 The Volvo 200 series came out

[@eduardooscar309]

17:37 se anuncia el turno de ABBA 18:10 ABBA hace su aparición para interpretar la bellísima Waterloo a pura potencia 53:05 en pantalla la votación 1:06:20 Waterloo gana con 302 votos 1:12:06 Agnetha con un gesto afectuoso a quien la felicita 1:13:13 ABBA vuelve a cantar Waterloo pero ahora con la mirada a Brighton (Inglaterra) para ganar Eurovision irán con igual vestuario y coreografía, pero cantarán en ingles

[@resireg]

Come on, the other singers were not so bad.

[@escorpioomega2111]

@@resireg Waterloo and ABBA the best song and the best group/simgers so different so clear

[@SuperFunkDoctor]

dat super funky intro song

[@Departures1]

So funny to hear the gasps when the scores for Abba start coming in. They had no idea the cultural earthquake that was taking place that would reverberate around the world for decades

[@David-dl5vd]

How awful that Abba had to go through this type of competition to get anywhere - but thank God they were recognised!

[@McRomik]

ABBA are on another planet compared to this swedish singers in 1974!

[@popcult]

ABBA for the AGES!

[@RickDanner]

Agnetha so pretty and adorable how could they lose?

[@scented-leafpelargonium3366]

Rick Danner Guitar Player : I think it's a song contest, not a beauty pageant. What quality should make a singer or singers win? You seem to be suggesting that it is about looks and not music.

[@swanskogjsson151]

Song nr 1: 6 pts. Good singer, nice tune. Song nr 2: 4 pts. Great singer, charming but out-of-date song. Song nr 3: 3 pts. Just boring. Nice lyrics, though. Song nr 4: 8 pts. Great singer (the daughter of Alice Babs, ESC-58), charming tune. Song nr 5: 12 pts. What can you say - a truly classic. Modern for it's time. Song nr 6: 12 pts. A great, happy and typical Swedish tune. Love it! Song nr 7: 1 pt. Good singer, totally useless song. Song nr 8: 7 pts. Well, this one is quite good. Good singers. Song nr 9: 5 pts. Like the song. But the performance is all over the place... Song nr 10: 10 pts. Nice tune, strong singers, bad outfits ;) Well deserved winner!

[@steinarmogen3166]

Gøran Fristorp had a beautiful song

[@selina5598]

I can see why ABBA won this one. The rest were dire

[@resireg]

the tic tac song was not so bad

[@stevebbuk]

Yes Agnetha was the glamourpuss of the contest with her mother at No. 10 and Jan Teigen's cousin at No. 2 providing further entertainment.

[@lisahoward9553]

Wow! Long time ago I was 5 year old my fave Abba song called "Waterloo"

[@tariqkhader6196]

I think ABBA are going to win

[@windinthew11]

Thank you also .. now I wonder if you have Melodifestivalen 1972 where Lena Andersson did not quite win with Saj det ...

[@millionseller001]

the audience don't look too convinced.

[@11matt11]

The underdog star of this show is Titti. 14:20 Just look at those back-up singers no less. And the young boys enthusiasm after the performance says it all. She got over a hundred votes, which kinda explains Sweden in 1974. And just try and get that song out of your head after listening to it twice. I dare you. Cute as a button too.

[@creativekid5215]

I like her dress

[@vivim29]

There were some great singers on there but none of them would have won against Olivia Newton-John, Abba was a great choice.

[@peterstroff]

Alla som Tittar 2014 Like:a Videon

[@Queen_Springsteen]

2015 jao

[@thethingy3738]

2016 här

[@puttemacguff7666]

2017

[@eghdf8888]

Why sing Abba the english Version on the Eurovision song contest, not the swedish song….?????

[@brendanrichards4056]

In the Contest's earlier years, singers had to sing in an official language from their country (i.e. Germans had to sing in German, Swedish singers had to sing in Swedish, and so on). This rule was dropped in 1973 (restored in 1977 but dropped again in 1999); the 1974 Contest saw six countries (including Sweden) sing their songs in English.

[@madabbafan]

Possibly because more people speak English than Swedish so by singing in English it had wider appeal.

[@ABBAFan]

Unfotunately, I haven't it (

[@SamFisherCell]

Glennmarks var ju bäst. Waterloo låter hemsk på svenska.

[@Queen_Springsteen]

Den är bra på svenska tycker jag då Men den är bättre på engelska Jag är 14år och ett ABBA freak

[@anderscarlssonn727]

1000 kr till vinnaren, 750kr till nr2, 500 till nr3... Det var bättre förr!

[@terrybaker8156]

Anders Carlssonn och 1000 SEK motsvarar hur mycket nu?

[@anderscarlssonn727]

Ska man tro allt som skrivs så max 10000 kr i dagens penningvärde, det som jag menar är att det var inte så mkt penningvärde utan att vinna melodifestivalen var mer ära

[@dreasbn]

usually i do like swedish sung songs.. but with Waterloo it sounds really odd and not very "fluent"...