Episode 97 – “1970: A Spanish Footballer Who Can Sing A Bit, Boycotts, and Won With Everything”

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In this episode, we chat about host city of Amsterdam, the host of 1970, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1970, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1970 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include (either in full or part):

Je suis tombé du ciel – David Alexandre Winter (Luxembourgh)

Pridi, dala ti bom cvet – Eva Sršen (Yugoslavia)

Occhi di ragazza – Gianni Morandi (Italy)

Viens l’oublier – Jean Vallée (Belgium)

Marlène – Dominique Dussault (Monaco)

Waterman – Patricia and Hearts of Soul (The Netherlands)

Retour – Henri Dès (Switzerland)

Marie-Blanche – Guy Bonnet (France)

Gwendolyne – Julio Iglesias (Spain)

Wunder gibt es immer wieder – Katja Ebstein (Germany)

Knock, Knock Who’s There? – Mary Hopkin (United Kingdom)

All Kinds of Everything – Dana (Ireland)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year for Season Five:

In episode 98, we’re in Brighton for Eurovision 1974!

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