Interesting fact of the day number 3,512. On Saturday night, Norway will be performing the 1,200th song to be sung at a Saturday night final. In total, there have been over 1,400 songs, but some of these never made it to the Grand Final. Here are those other ’00’ songs from down the years.
100 – ‘T’en va pas’ – Esther Ofarim – Switzerland 1963
200 – ‘De troubadour’ – Lenny Kuhr – Netherlands 1969
300 – ‘Singing this song’ – Renato – Malta 1975
400 – ‘He hé m’sieurs et dames’ – Profil – France 1980
500 – ‘L’amour de ma vie’ – Sherisse Laurence – Luxembourg 1986
600 – ‘Há sempre alguém’ – Nucha – Portugal 1990
700 – ‘To nie já!’ – Edyta Górniak – Poland 1994
800 – ‘No quiero escuchar’ – Lydia – Spain 1999
900 – ‘Feeling alive’ – Stelios Konstantinos – Cyprus 2003
1,000 – ‘Visionary dream’ – Sopho – Georgia 2007
1,100 – ‘Madness of love’ – Raphael Gualazzi – Italy 2011
What’s your favourite from among these?
Author: John Stanton
Source: Eurovision Ireland
Categories: Cyprus, Eurovision History, Eurovision Songs, France, Georgia, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland
Poland 1994! I love that song. (oh the irony, since it was probably that woeful dirge of an offering from Poland that killed off Ireland’s chance last night ;( )